Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator
I think this would be a useful thing to implement... I'd be glad to help
with any coding or design that needs to be done.
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tudor@thudspace.net
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> I was looking for a information to setup my whole computer but I could
> only find parts of it all all.
>
> That is why I looked how there could be a way how user can share
> important information, without getting some questions asked 10000 times
> only because there is no real Nr 1. place that is easily to use.
>
> now my idea is, that there should be place, where you can just enter
> your system parts, and it will return a "user manual" just covering the
> parts your really need.
>
> And recently i had to learn more of php and mysql and I think it is
> possible to implement such a thing as a user manual generator:
>
> It would work like that: People who have already set up their system
> contribute information what they needed to get their system running.
>
>
> On the other side, someone can go through a menu, choose
> CPU, kind of bus system, usb-devices, printer, soundcard, network cards,
> isdn-card.
>
> after choosing all that, it generates a tex or html output, or just
> plain text.
>
> That part can be done easily with an databank in the background.
> (just an query)
>
> This way, the this manual would have everything the user should need to
> set up the system, but not more information than needed. It will not
> overload the poor newbie with too much information. In fact, it is one
> of the reasons, I switched late to debian because i just could not find
> the information, I really needed.
>
> i would like to here your opinion about such an idea.
> Thank you, mattHias
>
>
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