Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Marquardt wrote: > Dale Scheetz“ book which can also be had online > (lost the bookmark, maybe www.linuxpress.com is a starting point), maybe > also http://www.debian.org/%7Ejoey/linx.html Packaged as tdlug (The Debian Linux User's Guide) in potato. -- Peter Galbr

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread John P. Hogan
the book has been published through New Riders and I have seen it in 1 local bookstore. The book is GPLed, has a single CD distro and sells for $24.95 with a portion of that going to FSF.

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Colin" == Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Colin> Havoc Pennington“s Debian Tutorial (would be good to have it as Colin> a package, is there already one?), The tutorial has been extended by Ossama Othen and John Goertzen (IIRC), and will be published as a book. As the tutorial is G

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > b) having a table of contents and index ( <- index might be hard ) >> ^^ >> >> Not too much if the base is SGML or (La)TeX. > That makes me happy. It will probably be in debiandoc-

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Michael" == Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael> What do you mean by ASCII links? You just mean references? Michael> I don't mind providing and ASCII version, but I think that Michael> for ease of navigation, well designed HTML (as a final Michael> version) would be best. If

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 08:24:06PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: > * Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > a) using html (this would help us -- we'd just mirror each other) > > We still need an ASCII document that tells newbies about lynx or > Netscape in that case, IMO. Agreed. >

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What do you think about: > > a) using html (this would help us -- we'd just mirror each other) > > b) having a table of contents and index ( <- index might be hard ) > What about using/modifying/enhancing dwww -- I think it would be good to t

e: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-23 Thread Doug Young
Subject: R Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:28:23 +1000 From: Doug Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: 1 shudder shudder ! God save us from "experts" who think EVERYTH

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-22 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:32:34AM +1000, Doug Young wrote: >> Will someone PLEASE get the message that the present >> format of MAN, HOWTO, and other stuff is NOT intelligible >> to the majority of newbies, and that is why there are so many >> post

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-22 Thread Michael Stenner
AIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian-User List ; > > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 2:10 AM > Subject: Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP) > > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 03:58:22PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > If a

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-22 Thread Doug Young
ial by experts !!! - Original Message - From: Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian-User List ; Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 2:10 AM Subject: Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP) > On

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP) Date: Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 12:10:09PM -0400 In reply to:Michael Stenner Quoting Michael Stenner([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 03:58:22PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > If anyone has a few links that t

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-21 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [new-user-guide] > I'd definitely be willing to maintain such a thing. It would require > more input from others than the standard package, though, so I think > the idea of a dedicated web page maintainer and a dedicated package > maintainer would pro

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines (ITP)

1999-07-21 Thread Michael Stenner
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 03:58:22PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > If anyone has a few links that they think every newbie should have read, > please let me know and while I may not be able to package them, I'll > definitesly host them. I'd definitely be willing to maintain such a thing. It would req