From: jmy@neural.hampshire.edu (Jason Yanowitz) Subject: Re: Let's Try To Make It Easy!! Date: 7 May 1993 15:37:18 GMT
In article <C6nMyy.19Jy@hawnews.watson.ibm.com> ewtroan@ewt.raleigh.ibm.com (Erik Troan) writes:
>
>In article <6a053B4w165w@odaiko.cts.com>, jfrost@odaiko.cts.com (SYSTEM
>0PERATOR) writes:
>|> This may have been brought up before, but here's a thought on making
>|> the Linux package nice and easy for people to get up and running.
>|>
>|> I am new to unix, and even newer to Linux. I'm sure I'm not alone.
>|> What would be most helpful is a file that would be installed into the
>|> root directory which is basically a step-by-step guide to some of the
>|> most important things you need to do to get linux configured for your
>|> system. Now, I know there is a FAQ, but this doesn't always provide
>|> adequate answers.
>|> [stuff deleted]
>
>If something like this happened, I'd like to make it available via WAIS from
>sunsite. I'm currently trying to get the FAQs and the LSM (Linux Software
>Map) available for WAIS searching, and when everything works there will
>be a public setup on sunsite for people to use to search it. This seems
>like a natural extension to those efforts if someone is willing to work
>on it.
>
>If anybody is interested, please e-mail me at ewt@sunsite.unc.edu so we can
>talk about making it available on sunsite.
>
>With electronic submissions, I don't think maintaining this would be that
>difficult or time-consuming, and the coordinator doesn't need to be linux
>expert by any means.
>
>Erik
I think this is a *great* idea, and it seems to go hand in hand
with the softwre map (such and such exists for Linux, here are
somt tips, like with elm) in addition to basic system stuff...
I'd be happy to try and collate it, but I neither have the knowledge
or ability to write it from scratch. Anyone else want to get working on
it?
Jason
jmy@neural.hampshire.edu
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