discuss: Thread: new HOWTO proposal

Hi Folks,

I'm new on the list, so please go easy on me if I'm covering old ground.

I'm planning to write a HOWTO or mini-HOWTO on OpenSSH and its uses. Any
comments before I start would be great - I'm sure someone else has thought of
it!

Regards

Hugh

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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:36:12PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm new on the list, so please go easy on me if I'm covering old ground.
> 
> I'm planning to write a HOWTO or mini-HOWTO on OpenSSH and its uses. Any
> comments before I start would be great - I'm sure someone else has thought of
> it!

Start by reading the LDP Author Guide, which should have all the
information you need. If it lacks anything file that as a bug report
right here to this list.

We keep a list of works in progress at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/authors/inprogress.html but I don't see
anything on OpenSSH listed. It is obviously a great subject, so I say
go ahead and get started on your document.

Regards,

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Hi all,

I've been thinking about this one for some time and I think the time is  
right. For lack of a better name would be a "home office" HOWTO or FAQ:  
it would encompass the common file formats and applications used to  
print, fax and format files that could then be shared among others in  
the non-linux world. It might be easier to describe in terms of the  
questions it would address:

1. How do I prepare a text file for printing?
2. How do I know if my printer can handle a file I want to print?
3. How can I see a "WYSIWYG" preview of a file I want to print?
4. What are some good programs for outputting formatted text?
5. What is ghostscript and why do I care?
6. How can I output in another font?
7. How do I add font 'x' to ghostscript and thus print with it?
8. Can I use so-called 'True-Type' fonts with ghostscript?
9. How do I prepare a file to fax?
10. How do I fax something in Linux using a modem and an analog phone  
line?
11. How do I fax something I've scanned in Linux?
12. Is there a "common-denominator" file type that can be converted to  
(nearly) every other file type, graphic or otherwise, and how do I  
convert between formats?
13. What are the most space-efficient document or graphical file types?
14. What kinds of documents can my friend/coworker with Windows access  
that I can produce with Linux?
15. How do I make an Adobe PDF file using Linux?
16. Why would I want to use LaTex as a simple home/home-office user?  
And can you give me the abridged version of how to use it, please?
17. How do I make a PDF file using linux?
18. What kind of spreadsheet programs can be used in Linux?
19. My friend/coworker emailed me a Power-Point presentation; how do I  
open it?
20. How do I make my own slide show for presentation with Linux?
21. How do I open or produce an MS W*rd .doc file in Linux?
22. What kind of programs can I use to graphically alter files or  
photographs in linux?
23. How do I make a multiple-page postscript document from separate  
pages?

I know quite a bit of the above information exists in other documents  
(Printing HOWTO, Linux Cookbook) but much of it is distributed across  
the net, difficult to find and/or poorly written. The document will be  
supplemented with notes and scripts I wrote after a lot of trial and  
error during the last few years of using my Linux box in a "home  
office" environment in a world where everyone else uses W*ndows.

The biggest void this document would hopefully address would be the  
home/home-office proprietary-OS desktop user interested in switching  
and curious if linux can do all the "useful" things they currently do,  
or alternatively the person who has already made the jump at home and  
wants to know they can more than just play Tuxracer.

Anyone that can think of a better name for this document, please  
volunteer it.

hs

Hi there,

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Howard Shane wrote:

> a "home office" HOWTO or FAQ:

> 18. What kind of spreadsheet programs can be used in Linux?

18a how do I open/output spreadsheet files in assorted formats?  (See 12).

> Anyone that can think of a better name for this document, please
> volunteer it.

I think your suggestion is fine.  Go ahead and write it!

73,
Ged.

PS: Please don't reply to me directly, rr.com is on my blacklist. :(

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 12:51:34PM -0500, Howard Shane wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been thinking about this one for some time and I think the time is  
> right. For lack of a better name would be a "home office" HOWTO or FAQ:  
> it would encompass the common file formats and applications used to  
> print, fax and format files that could then be shared among others in  
> the non-linux world. It might be easier to describe in terms of the  
> questions it would address:

You might also cover the use of a command line interface for a "home
office" (if you're not already doing so) or at least make some mention
of that possibility.  Very old computers are slow if one uses a GUI.

			David Lawyer

At 11:51 4/18/2004, Howard Shane wrote:
>The biggest void this document would hopefully address would be the
>home/home-office proprietary-OS desktop user interested in switching
>and curious if linux can do all the "useful" things they currently do,
>or alternatively the person who has already made the jump at home and
>wants to know they can more than just play Tuxracer.

I really like the idea, and it can probably be *very* useful. I think you 
should go ahead and write it.

When you are mentioning applications, file types, and capabilities, don't 
forget Sun StarOffice. It's not free (gratis) or Free (open-source) but it 
is an excellent commercial package which replaces Microsoft Office quite 
well and costs only $80.

It is an alternative your readers should know about, since some of them 
will prefer it (just like some will prefer OpenOffice, or KOffice, or 
Abiword...). I've also used a switch from MS Office to StarOffice on 
Windows as a first step to then moving people to Linux, so it has an 
advocacy role as well! :-)

Cheers,


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Hi,
	I'm working on a new document that I'd like to sumit to TLDP.

Subject: Organizing a FLOSS Conference HOWTO

History:
	This is a document that we, at the CaFeLUG (a local LUG in Argentina's
Federal Capital), wanted to write for quiet a long time. After our
fourth annual conference I decided to stop thinking about it, and go
ahead and write it. At the CaFeLUG we organize an annual conference
called ``CaFeCONF´´ (yes, we borrowed the name from DEBCONF), the site
is mainly in spanish but some part of it is translated -
http://www.cafeconf.org.
	After four years putting CaFeCONF together we got reasonable good at
it, so I think our experience could help a few people.

Scope:
	The document covers how to deal with these topics:
	- Tasks and resposabilities (how to put some order to caos)
	- Publishing (where to publish the conference and what to publish about it)
	- Speeches (how to select the speeches, call-for-papers and such)
	- Speakers (how to deal with local and foreign speakers, specially
foreign ones)
	- Sponsors (ideas on how to get sponsoring)
	- Web site (different ways to organize the conference's web site)
	- Attendees (how to deal with attendees, what they usually expect and
how to give it to them)
	- At the conference (how to work at the conference's days)

I did some search through the internet and didn't find any document
regarding this matter.
Any comments on the idea are welcome, I do have much of the document
already written (I used the TLDP XML template). After I'm done with the
document I will try to get somebody at the CaFeLUG to translate it to
spanish.

I'm not sure what are the steps I have to take from now on (I did read
the Author Guide).

thanks,

dax//

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