Re: Webpage that might be useful for newbies

[Larry Holish <ljholish@speakeasy.net>]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:53:23PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> (on Friday, 13 September 2002, 09:25 AM +1000):
> > Whilst looking around, I found this page:
> > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out -- I'm not exactly a newbie, but I was able
> to find a few documents on there that flushed out details that I hadn't
> investigated before. And with its clear Debian bent, it is certainly a
> good document to point out on this list.

Its also available as a Debian package, so you can install it locally:

$ apt-cache show newbiedoc

Package: newbiedoc
Priority: optional
Section: doc
Installed-Size: 7137
Maintainer: Romain Lerallut <romain@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.6.0-1
Suggests: www-browser,postscript-viewer
Filename: pool/main/n/newbiedoc/newbiedoc_0.6.0-1_all.deb
Size: 1010626
MD5sum: ea18dd96db5629e9214c9547357bbe32
Description: Documentation by and for newbies
 This is a snapshot of the documentation currently being developed
 by The Newbiedoc Project. See http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net for
 the most recent version, or if you want to join the team.
 .
 Current release includes:
  - Introduction to 'apt-get'
  - DocBook guides and documentation for writing doc for Newbiedoc
  - Using 'grep'
  - Installing and configuring hardware
  - Finding help on a Debian system
  - Text editors: JOE and vi
  - Compiling kernels the Debian way
  - Managing processes
  - Using runlevels
  - Configuring exim
 .
 The documentation will be installed in /usr/share/doc/newbiedoc,
 and newbiedoc(1) is a script that starts a browser on the
 newbiedoc collection.

-- 
Larry Holish
<ljholish@speakeasy.net>