On 19/05/2019 17:58, m...@distasis.com wrote: > Hope you're open to some feedback. Liked the ending with info on > Discussions and Feedback. Might be a good idea to mention the mailing > lists again at this point or if there's another place to give > community feedback mention those links there. You talked about a need > for both web based and pdf based documentation. Personally, I do a lot > of my documentation using straight HTML and CSS and then use tools > like wkhtmltopdf to convert that to PDF format if needed. If you have > web based documentation, you can use tools to create a PDF version and > maintain just one master set of documentation. If you need some > information on how to use wkhtmltopdf, I wrote up some material on > that at: http://www.distasis.com/cpp/books.htm I'm just wondering if > you should soften the language about being 'brave enough to build > their own system'. This sounds more like LFS and I think ToriOS > doesn't require that level of knowledge (such as building executables > from source code). Maybe you can rephrase it or say something like > customize your own system instead of build it. I think the average > ToriOS user will just be using apt or synaptic to pick the packages > they want anyway. Might be worth mentioning that people could also > help test in Virtualbox or Qemu. They could get screenshots that way > too. If there's a Docker image of ToriOS somewhere, that's another > option. Might also be nice if we can get some documentation together > on what type of development help is needed. I know of several > lightweight applications (some of which aren't available from the > Debian archives). I build them from source. Still don't have a good > method to share the results with anyone else. I even have a couple of > deb files I created with alien for the Tuxmath mailing list. The > builds include several bug fixes. No one on the Tuxmath development > list ever bothered to test if the deb files will even work and the > patches were never officially integrated since no one's really > maintaining Tuxmath at this point. (Some files in the deb install > might need a change of ownership or permission settings changes.) I > have information on where to download them here: > http://www.distasis.com/cpp/lmports.htm The version of Tuxmath in the > deb files uses SDL 2.0, but I can also build with SDL 1.x which would > probably be even more stable. Some of the packages in the Debian > archives are hopelessly out-of-date. I always build TiMidity++ from > source because the Debian archive uses an old version that's missing a > lot of useful features including better Karaoke midi support. Would be > nice to find some good methods of sharing programs ToriOS users build > from source that aren't easily available elsewhere. If ToriOS offers > software you can't get from other places, it would be one more reason > why ToriOS is special and unlike any other Linux distribution already > out there. Best wishes. Laura Hi Laura Good points here. thank you. I have made a few changes and added some links to the bottom.
I did suggest testing in virtual box, so we need to expand on that in a new post perhaps. http://zleap.net/torios-how-to-get-involved/ We can add more to this or create subsequent posts with more information on specific topics. This is part of the introductory text from torios.top, so if needs changing there, I just quoted for consistency. but I agree, it does sound a little technical for beginners This has confused me a little, sorry I have installed virtual machine manager, then when I tried to install ToriOS into a virtual machine it failed not sure where it failed, or if there is an ISO issue. which is why we need more testers. Paul -- Paul Sutton http://www.zleap.net https://www.linkedin.com/in/zleap/ gnupg : 7D6D B682 F351 8D08 1893 1E16 F086 5537 D066 302D -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
