discuss: Idea for new complete Linux documentation
Subject:
Idea for new complete Linux documentation
From:
"frank ernest" ####@####.####
Date:
14 Feb 2014 23:13:08 +0000
Message-Id: <20140214231241.251410@gmx.com>
Hi, about four years ago I was a newbie in desperate need of a good guide on Linux. I could not find a free guide online or in the repos that was intended for someone who wanted more then the absolute basics (I was not to good at scouring the web back then.) I started to write a guide partly because I could not find any good one and the other part because I wanted to remember my what my questions as a newbie were.
I wrote four versions without making a release each one better then the first. I now consider myself most capable and most advanced in the arts of Linux and programming. I can program in C (I even understand most pointer problems.) I can write python3 but and not to fond of objects. I love awk and am quite good. I am a fair shell script hand and am quite good at compiling and installing software. I've also solved several challenges that several authors have posted online regarding awk and C. In addition amount of docs I've read on Linux is quite vast.
I since the fourth revision have learned about the Linux Documentation project and, desire to confide with you in my desire to create a better intro/guide to Linux.
I have written the four versions with openoffice but I don't like them so I've been searching and I've decided that I will write my guide in either Latex or scribus (yodl I can't find any tutorials for.)
Proposal
Problem: Linux docs are to spread up. The information uncontained and unedited an some quite out dated others very poor and/or unfinished guides.
Hurtles: Obviously, this is no small chore. The beginner often comes to Linux believing some very weird things most of the time. Further, there are several detrimental philosophies that will not function in the Linux communities.
Solution: Gather together as many free docs on various subjects as the author feels fit to write on and update the one in need of updating, rewrite the ones that are in need of rewriting, fill the gaps, and create one united guide and reference for Linux that goes into some depths on the various matters the author feels fit to write about and references other docs which will be redistributed with the guide to form a complete knowledge base for the beginner.
I believe I can do all that I propose and am willing to do all the work and have already set the grounds for the manual and have most of the necessary material mirrored to my hard-drive (I did most of it before I knew about the LDP, I'm not trying to "jump the gun" as the saying goes.)
Siceraly, David
