Re: wish list -> My personal Debian User Manual Generator
So who is going to contribute and maintain it? I'm not talking about the
wrapper, but the hardware info. I can put together a description on how to
install the ISA SB64AWE, from pnpconf to groupsetting. But now 2.4 is out
which does isa differently, so who is responsible for updating the entry
for the SB64AWE?
I think if you can get many success stories of people describing hardware
setup together and serve them verbatim to the audience interested in them
you would just have to write a search tool. One page springs to mind and
that is the Linux on Laptops page
(http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/) which is simply a
link list of people's success stories. Laptops are notoriously difficult to
set up, so this page is a beacon in the laptop scene. But there aren't many
laptops compared to desktop hardware, so a successful page on that would be
huge.
Anyway, just some musings from my side. I really learn a lot from reading
success stories from other people, so I wrote one myself for the Pinnacle
PCTVpro radio/tv card (http://www.xs4all.nl/~orchard/linux) and you might
want to use that as a start.
Hans
At 01:04 AM 1/27/01 -0600, will trillich wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:13:27AM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote:
>> 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 you really need.
>
>> 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.
>
>> i would like to here your opinion about such an idea.
>
>delightful! with a round or two of proofing, this sounds like an
>ideal approach to what i've been after for months now...
>
>http://sourceforge.net has room for a project like this.
>matthias, you should start a new project over there that does
>exactly this, and it sounds like you've already got some
>volunteers.
>
>i've got "newbiedoc" registered there, where we're trying to
>find intelligent ways of creating new documents and keeping the
>old ones interlinked and formatted wisely and so forth -- but
>your idea would put us out of business once it had some steam
>behind it... cool!
>
>full steam ahead!
>
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