Hi, On Wed, 17 May 2006, Bodo Bauer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 14:22 +0200, houghi wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:40:31PM +1000, scsijon wrote:
how-to is only a small part, what I believe is needed is a "grow" manual that allows you to start with the basics (eg the command only "ls"), add the meanings and results of the generally used extensions (ls -l) and provide the commonly used major commands (ls -Ralph). It would also have the needed links to man, info, online refs etc. so as you become more comfortable with what you are doing your able to expand.
Well, maybe it's time I start working on an old pet project of mine again.
A long time ago I started a book project. People talked me into writing a book on SUSE Linux. Not the usual stuff on how to install it and where to click to get a web browser or an email tool, but something more technical. Kind of a behind he scenes guide to SUSE's Linux distribuition.
We kind of finished the book in late 1999. But as it turned out, the book was never printed. There are many reasons to why it came that way, but it all boiled down to the fact that the publishing industry was (is?) not ready for content licensed under something like the Free Documentation License. So we gave up on all the fame and glory of a printed publication and settled with publishing it online. This at least made it available to a large audience and it seems we hit the nerve as we got , and still get, a good number of hits on these pages and quite some positive feedback.
Now we have 6 years and who knows how many versions of SUSE Linux later and being based on SuSE Linux 6.0, the book is pretty outdated by now.
So I set up a Wiki and planed to allow it to be edited by whoever feels like contributing.
maybe you want to check it out and we can use it as a base for a in depth guide for openSuSE...
The url is http://www.slgfg.de
Welcome back home, Bodo! I can't wait to see an actualized presentation of the /proc filesystem tunables. Will you work on it? Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)