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[opensuse-doc] LfL: new articles
by Alexey Eremenko 17 May '07

17 May '07

hi all ! I have written 2 new articles recently: -Virtualization Theory: which explains 4 different approaches in Virtualization. Emulation, Full Virtualization, Para-Virtualization and OS-level Virtualization. With this article, I hope that openSUSE will seriously re-think our Virtualization policy and start more aggressive politics on that front. More specifically, I would like faster inclusion of different virtualization technologies into the distro. Susers themselves will decide what fits them best. Our current Xen-centric strategy is wrong ! -Building a Linux Kernel: which explains to the newbies why they may need a kernel upgrade plus how to build a vanilla kernel from sources. Enjoy ! -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-doc] LfL: Few Questions
by Thomas R. Jones 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hello, I was wondering what the target grading was for readability? Also, is there not a common novell/suse/opensuse entity file for inclusion into all documents? Thanks. Thomas

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[opensuse-doc] Online Manual input source
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 15 May '07

15 May '07

As a subscriber to the opensuse-users list for a few years and seeing the queries that are answeered there, may I suggest that the mailing list posts become a part of the online manual as it is here, in opensuse-users that many problems are solved. I have often thought of using the opensuse list as a source to write my own SUSE manual but have problems getting started, especially i.t.o. f the structure/contents. I am unsure how to do it across distro versions but if someone at OpenSUSE could have final say on wheher a wiki entry is published or not, I am almost sure that this would be an excelent example of opensource sharing. What are you folk' thoughts on this? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-doc] LFL: Topic mapping
by Thomas R. Jones 11 May '07

11 May '07

Hello everyone, I recently submitted myself as a candidate for authoring LFL literary pieces of work and was wondering how coordination of topics was handled. More precisely how does one coordinate a requested topic and/or subtopic with the document community at large? There does not seem to be a wiki page with requested documents and/or author submitted topics. Is the mailinglist utilized as a topic submission medium? I have worked with the fedora documentation team and this is how the topic coverage and progression is handled. Is there something similar in openSUSE? Cheers. Thomas

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[opensuse-doc] Fwd: [Gimp-docs] ODF Support
by Alexey Eremenko 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi All ! The GIMP teams says they found a way to generate ODF from DocBook XML. Maybe we could do the same... This could be beneficial for LfL. Here is the original message: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roman Joost <romanofski(a)gimp.org> Date: May 4, 2007 1:25 AM Subject: [Gimp-docs] ODF Support To: GIMP Docs <gimp-docs(a)lists.xcf.berkeley.edu> Hi folks, I added the docbook2odf support today. To create ODF files, grab the docbook2odf package from: http://open.comsultia.com/docbook2odf/ Run the configure script again and create ODF files by typing: make odf It was very slow on my machine because of a preprocessing step (it copied every single image to a temporary directory). I'd like to get some comments if someone tries to create ODF files. Cheers, -- Roman Joost www: http://www.romanofski.de email: romanofski(a)gimp.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGOmFe8CscaEkpx0IRAk9rAJkBCePpRlAY9zrl+rA3+KA7YiieQwCfTUn/ 1OWpa5daI7+q+oBVLoQySJs= =SlUB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gimp-docs mailing list Gimp-docs(a)lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-doc] html to docbook
by jdd 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

there is just now a discussion on a tldp list http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:10345:200704:lceadkhkfeahggjijpgo I had also this (I think private) answer: I suggest you http://conglomerate.org/ This XML editor can edit and import plain text files to XML. You just have to select the text file and this edotor convert it to XML format automatically. I hope this help you. I use combination of OpenOffice and Conglomerate to all my documents. OpenOffice can handle almos every file format and Conglomerate can edit it and can produce perfectly clean XML DocBook code. (and this product is GPL) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Cécile, esthéticienne à Montpellier http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-doc] Wiki to PDF? Using Wiki as a doc source?
by Clayton 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

I've been poking around in the info on the LfL (FOSDEM presentation, mailing list archives etc), and have a question... or two... >From what I've gathered, doc input is all done in DocBook XML (or flat text that is converted to DocBook XML). Output formats for LfL are PDF, HTML and Wiki. Is there any thought or (future) plan to use MediaWiki as an input source? Has anyone successfully managed to go from MediaWiki source to XML and then on (via Apache FO) to PDF? (the XML to PDF is relatively easy... it's the Wiki to XML that's looking ugly to me). C. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-doc] [STYLE] Terminology for Sources from which Packages Are Installed
by Rebecca Walter 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

We need to unify terminology for all the various types of sources from which packages are installed (CDs, DVDs, network sources, etc.). So before I start saying what I think and why, I'd like to know what the community thinks. Please give me your reasoning for your preferred terminology. I'd appreciate feedback by the end of the week so we can get the discussion going and hopefully reach a decision soon. Thanks! Rebecca --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-doc] SVN moving to opensuse.org?
by Francis Giannaros 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Now that the opensuse.org svn is set up (for zypp etc, and possibly the artwork going over as well), are there any plans to move documents (like LFL) over to there as well? Kind thoughts, -- Francis Giannaros Web: http://francis.giannaros.org IRC: apokryphos on irc.freenode.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-doc] LfL: Some minor fixes for the VirtualBox article
by Christian Boltz 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

Hello, I'm just reading the Virtualbox article in LfL (online version on forgeftp.novell.com/lfl/.html, Revision 244 from 2007-04-16) and have some minor fixes for it: - section "Basic Installation Procedere": 4th step: The reboot isn't necessary. Just logout and log in again. - section "Intermediate Topic: Networking via Host Bridging": ... VirtualBox has option to use Host netwroking, ... Typo, should be "networking" instead of "netwroking" ;-) ... 1. As we said earlier, tunctl not included ... should be "tunctl _is_ not included" ... to manage TAP interface priviledges. should be "privileges" (without d) ... 2. Create TAP interface. Set priviledges to user tux. "privileges" without d again. Maybe search&replace is a good idea ;-) - section "Advanced Topic: Seamless Mode Virtualization" ... followed by the Open-Source responce ... "response" (with s, not c) ... Anyways, it doesn't works properly, ... "Anyway" and "work" (both without s) - section "Advanced Topic: How-To USB + openSUSE 10.2" Just FYI: the next kernel update should have the required usbfs enabled again. Oh, and the link to bugzilla is plain text instead of a link. That said, I just added VirtualBox to my to-be-tested-if-time-permits list ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- >> die Novell-Webseiten wissen noch gar nichts von SuSE 10 > Irgendwie müssen die geschlafen haben ;-) Oder wir haben es nur noch nicht gefunden ;-) [>>Thomas Hertweck, >Christian Boltz u. Sören Wengerowsky in suse-linux] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help(a)opensuse.org

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