On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:31:34AM -0800, Bruce Byfield wrote: > From DebianPlanet: > > Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. is releasing the User's Guide included with > Progeny Debian 1.0 for public use and is asking for volunteers to update > and maintain the manual. The User's Guide is over 400 pages of Debian > related content and will be available under the GPL (General Public > License) and available at http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/debian/doc/ > > The maintainer for the project is Bruce Byfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), > a former Progeny employee who wrote the original manual. Byfield, now a > marketing and technical communication consultant in Vancouver, Canada, > says, "I'm glad to see the manual live on. The project will need some > revisions to remove specific references to Progeny, but, basically, what > we have is a manual for beginning to intermediate users that's about > complete. I'd like to think that the project will help Debian to have > documentation that equals or exceeds what the commercial distributions > are offering." Anyone who is interested in helping maintain the > documentation should contact Bruce Byfield via email at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- > > There's some work to be done to get the files into a free format, and to > remove the references to Progeny-specific tools. After that, we'll see what > happens. The manual may continue as a separate project. Alternatively, the > people on the project may decide to fold it into existing documentation > efforts. >
There's a lot of good information here, mostly directly applicable to Debian. Even screen shots! The quality seems very good. I think there's a large hole in the Debian documentation bin labelled Beginner/Novice. This would fill that hole nicely. I'm willing to work on it, if others also think there's a place here for it. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
