Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:12:39 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>, Narayan Newton <narayannewton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slackware Handbook Message-ID: <20050125231239.GA1644@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20050125155003.2a1754f6@mobile.pittgoth.com> References: <1106507620.21768.1.camel@raven.nodomain.org> <20050125121058.GD8499@unixpages.org> <20050125104814.1436e114@mobile.pittgoth.com> <f6f81e805012512226695358c@mail.gmail.com> <20050125155003.2a1754f6@mobile.pittgoth.com>
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Narayan Newton <narayannewton@gmail.com> wrote: > We at MadPenguin.org are creating a website to recreate the FreeBSD > handbook for the Slackware Linux distribution. The quality and > completeness of the FreeBSD docs is unparalleled in Linux. We feel > that a "Slackware Handbook" would be very useful to many people. Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org> wrote: > Personally, I'd like the "Contributed by ..." to stay for sections > which have them. Having those sections shown to a wider audiance > would help with spelling/grammar/correction fixes and the person(s) > responsible would be easier to find by contributors who may want to > submit patches. > [...] > If no one else makes any comments then I think you're good > to go since there has been more than enough time for support or > objections to have been made. Thanks! Slackware is the most BSD-like of the Linux distributions out there. For that reason and many others it has been my favorite since forever. It _was_ the first Linux distribution I ever installed too :-) Having said that, I think that the distribution terms of the FreeBSD documentation, as stated in our online versions of the web site and the docs *do* allow Slackware folks to use parts of the documentation. This is definitely something that may benefit both sides: - More eyes will look at the FreeBSD docs, possibly submitting fixes and/or additions. - The Slackware Handbook will have lots of material to start with, which usually serves as a good motive for more people to get involved early. - If the Slackware Handbook uses a "compatible" set of distribution terms, we may even import back some of the material Linux people write in our own Handbook. This sounds definitely good :-) Giorgos
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