On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 04:34:50PM -0500, Nils Lohner wrote: > > This would be a Good Thing (tm). Debian-doc has livened up again over the > past few months, and it seems like several people are writing now. I've > cc:'ed debian-doc, Oliver (who's coordinating most of the work) and Dale, as > he's already written a Debian book. Plus, with a publisher interested, they > might be able to put a paid person on coordinating the effort, and that > would be invaluable to the documentation effort IMO.
[...] > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Di Carlo writes: > >Moreover, I'm not sure what the topic should be. My contact at IDG > >has stated its generally better if the author(s) decide upon the > >topic. She's amenable to one directed towards users, developers, or > >whatever. [...] May I suggest we start of with maybe a book aimed at Users, seeing as we do have plenty of documentation on-line available for developers. Something along the lines of the Linux-Getting-Started guide, but with more details about Networks, system admin, and lots more Debian-specific stuff (maybe chapters on dpkg/dselect, etc.). -- Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkeys.asc.
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