The Free World: ODOS - Newbie Doc
Today’s ODOS site is Newbie Doc - a site full of documenation written by GNU/Linux newbies for GNU/Linux newbies.
The first thing I noticed (and liked) when I hit the site was the bright yellow tip o’ the moment plastered right across the front page. I reloaded it a couple of times and the tips are pretty useful, if somewhat obscure.
Here’s the site mantra:
Last week, we were Debian newbies. We suffered terribly, changing a setting, installing a package, decoding a log file. An uphill battle, every step of the way.
This week, we’ll write down what we learned.
Next week, a newbie’s peace-of-mind will be saved because we wrote it down.
What could be better than that?
What, indeed?
That’s about where the journey ends. Buried within all this good cheer must be some documents somewhere, but I sure can’t find them. To be fair, there is a database error scrawled across the bottom of the page so perhaps there is more stuff there on better days.
If you want to contribute a document, there’s a lot of good information on how to do that. Just nothing on where the docs are…I’m confused.
I’m going to give Newbie Doc the benefit of the doubt and revisit it again to see what’s there if the errors clear up.
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2 opinions for The Free World: ODOS - Newbie Doc
Kyle
Jan 17, 2006 at 10:19 am
Well I hope they get their documents up, as I’d be interested in reading them. My debian experience is pretty simple:
Insert netinstall disk. Wait forever. Dist-upgrade to etch (or sid). X dies, debian never runs again.
Maybe someone else had the same experience!
Jon
Jan 17, 2006 at 10:29 am
Laff…nice. I’ve only run pure Debian once, but it never caused me any problems. I used it as a server only, though and therefore never tried to run X on it.
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