Hi Alexey, On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Alexey Eremenko wrote:

There is an excellent command-line intro guide for Linux newbies from Mandrake 10.1. I would like to copy and modify it's contents into LfL.

Copying verbatim is never an option. Especially not when the licensing is the problem.

What's the best way to do that?

As said above, there is no way of doing that.

The problem is licensing, it's not GFDL, and Mandriva doesn't want to make it GFDL.

Should I write all the material from scratch?

Probably - but what exactly is it that strikes you as so important and unique about the Mandrake doc? I just see a bunch of manuals there and don't quite get what it is you want for LfL.

link: http://www.mandriva.com/fr/community/resources/documentation

This docs is SUPER-DUPER important, because newbies don't know the concept of mounting or how-to install software from sources. This book cover all the concepts/basics.

Instead of re-inventing the wheel twice you could do the following: 1) check the openSUSE docs, especially the Start-up Guide and use Bugzilla to report what is missing. I don't see much added value in having some sort of stub in the doc delivered by Novell, yet another stub in the LfL manual and another bit outside in the community. 2) Share with the list what particular issues you think need coverage and we can decide together whether that is something that counts as an enhancement to the existing SUSE/Novell doc or whether that is something we want do develop in LfL. 3) write a primer on what you think is lacking for LfL and link to the Mandrake stuff Jana -- Jana Jaeger jjaeger@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Documentation Maxfeldstr. 5 +49 (0) 911 74053-0 D-90409 Nuernberg http://www.novell.com/linux SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)