Re: proposal: create a documentation packages for each laptop brand-serie
This is an excellent idea. I'm willing to help, too.
As a long-time laptop Linux user, being able to apt-get
a package of handy hints and pointers to URLs would have
been a great time and effort saver. Yes, I was able to
find a lot of what I needed with google; if someone had
bundled that up for me, even if it was six months old, it
would have been an enormous help.
By the same token, I would much rather set the machine
up myself; a package that supplied a custom kernel would
be nice, for example, but not essential.
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:11, Riccardo Vestrini wrote:
> I think it could be a good thing if someone buying a new laptop could
> simply do
> apt-get install laptopbrand-laptopserie
> and then obtain in /usr/share/doc/laptopbrand-laptopserie all needed
> documentation on how to configure his laptop, necessary kernel patches,
> a working .config, a working XF86Config-4, pointers and links to
> websites with personal installation reports, working configuration files
> for other laptop-typical packages like powernowd and suggestions about
> useful packages
>
> this could also help long-term users to share informations and fine-tune
> their laptop
>
> I have proposed a package for each serie because I noticed that vendors
> tends to use similar hardware in a new serie of laptops (except for some
> things like video board)
>
> will someone be interested?
>
> --
>
> Riccardo Vestrini
> <riccardov@sssup.it>
>
> "Io ho una deformazione professionale, sono Ingegnere, e il problema in
> quello che lei dice è l'essere umano, perché una macchina può sbagliare
> ma l'essere umano ha sicuramente molti più difetti" --
> sconosciuto ad un congresso, mentre un manager parlava di risorse umane
>
--
Ciao,
al
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Hewlett-Packard Company http://www.debian.org
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