discuss: Re: Linux Documentation CD & Torrents
Subject:
Re: Fwd: TLDP: Linux Documentation CD & Torrents
From:
"Bas v.d. Wiel" ####@####.####
Date:
28 Nov 2004 22:19:43 -0000
Message-Id: <41AA4EE3.7070506@extranet.kompas-media.nl>
Stein Gjoen wrote:
>
>>> If our readers want that, they can download all they
>>> want and burn their own CD´s, no?
>>>
>>> Tille.
>>
>
>
>> sure. they can but its probably a matter of
>> convenience. Mozilla sells firefox cds for example
>
>
> I too loooked into the convenience part and therefore made this
> prototype:
> http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/The_LDP_Generator.html
>
> It is a non-working prototype so clicking that last button
> is not going to start a download.
>
> Note that the complete collection is likely to be larger than
> can be fitted onto a single CD, so a selection is needed.
>
> Regards,
> Stein Gjoen
>
>
> ______________________
> http://lists.tldp.org/
>
Would Jigdo perhaps be useful for this purpose? It works great in
building different CD sets of the Debian Linux distribution. Don't know
if it's any good at all for gathering documenation, but maybe you should
give it a look? You can find more info about Jigdo on Debian's website.
Bas
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