Matthew Flaschen wrote: > Kevin Dean wrote: >> I admire your passion. >> >> There's one huge problem that I see with gNewSense right now, and I've >> spoken with Paul about how I might be able to help fix this. >> >> Simply, gNewSense isn't yet ready to be the showcase that we all want it >> to be. >> >> There are things that still remain to be done before gNewSense is >> fully functional, let alone exceptional. For instance, we don't have a >> Server install CD, and doing a "Lightweight" install on a laptop of >> older machine is not yet possible at this moment. >> >> Documentation is one thing that gNewSense lacks now, and anyone >> willing to help write some would do a lot. > > Is it really necessary for us to abandon all of Ubuntu's documentation? > They do have a dedicated doc team, and it's freely licensed, so I think > it could be a good starting point. > > Matthew Flaschen >
No, Ubuntus doco will (in about 50% of places) be fine for gns. much of the 50% is removing howtos re non-free btw. The main issue i was having (i had a quick look) was the way the doco+firefox+something else which i forget were integrated. it makes it hard/impossible to simply gen- the docs package like the others (from what i see). I dont seem to have the links i gathered about this (download the source package, look in the /docs/ dir, /debian/rules etc for pointers). I even have a checkout of the ubuntu docs unprocessed (from svn) to see what i can do, but havent had time to check it out properly. If someone has time to take this on, tell me. i'd rather not duplicate work when i get time again. Info for those interested in the svn: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/MyDownloads/UbuntuDapperDocsSVN$ svn up ; svn info ;\ du -hs . At revision 3953. Path: . URL: https://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos/branches/dapper Repository Root: https://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos Repository UUID: 1e033ed4-87e8-0310-8703-d68c7bbd86c9 Revision: 3953 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: mdke Last Changed Rev: 3442 Last Changed Date: 2006-11-17 08:40:06 +1030 (Fri, 17 Nov 2006) 189M . kk -- Karl Goetz User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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