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- From: maniac@unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
- Subject: Idea for a useful manual for linux
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.181226.18584@unlv.edu>
- Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User)
- Organization: Too many
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 18:12:26 GMT
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- From what I've seen of a lot of the newbie questions, and of my own
- problems, I think one thing that could definitely help out is some
- kind of "Intro to Linux" FAQ sheet, that gives a user a general idea
- of what is going on in the system. Things like:
-
- What files get sourced on booting a system and why (as well
- as what should be there).
-
- The ins and outs of mounting (I know three people already that
- have been bitten by the lack of knowledge that a directory
- must already exist before you can mount a device at that
- location.
-
- What files get sourced when starting a shell, and what
- permissions this requires.
-
- What files get sourced when starting up X. (I don't know this
- one, since I haven't set up X yet).
-
- How to manually add users and groups (and what these mean).
-
- Very little of this is linux-specific, but linux doesn't have much of
- a users manual (not that I've found). We've got the FAQ which answers
- specific questions, but I'm thinking more of a users manual which
- details things like this in a general manner, rather than addressing
- specific problems. It would be nice to get this out for 1.0, but
- I don't see that happening.
-
- Does anyone else think this would be useful, before I commit myself
- to helping organize such a beast? I think the best way to do this so
- that it doesn't crush a few people is to get a list of competent
- volunteers to write parts of the manual, with one person responsible
- for editing the parts to ensure consistency, creating a table of
- contents, index, etc.
-
- If the idea does seem viable, what sections would we need?
-
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- Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu
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