Slackware Handbook

[Tom Rhodes]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:12:39 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Narayan Newton <narayannewton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We at MadPenguin.org are creating a website to recreate the FreeBSD
> > handbook for the Slackware Linux distribution. The quality and
> > completeness of the FreeBSD docs is unparalleled in Linux. We feel
> > that a "Slackware Handbook" would be very useful to many people.
> 
> Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Personally, I'd like the "Contributed by ..." to stay for sections
> > which have them.  Having those sections shown to a wider audiance
> > would help with spelling/grammar/correction fixes and the person(s)
> > responsible would be easier to find by contributors who may want to
> > submit patches.
> > [...]
> > If no one else makes any comments then I think you're good
> > to go since there has been more than enough time for support or
> > objections to have been made.  Thanks!
> 
> Slackware is the most BSD-like of the Linux distributions out there.
> For that reason and many others it has been my favorite since forever.
> It _was_ the first Linux distribution I ever installed too :-)
> 
> Having said that, I think that the distribution terms of the FreeBSD
> documentation, as stated in our online versions of the web site and the
> docs *do* allow Slackware folks to use parts of the documentation.
> 
> This is definitely something that may benefit both sides:
> 
>   - More eyes will look at the FreeBSD docs, possibly submitting fixes
>     and/or additions.
> 
>   - The Slackware Handbook will have lots of material to start with,
>     which usually serves as a good motive for more people to get
>     involved early.
> 
>   - If the Slackware Handbook uses a "compatible" set of distribution
>     terms, we may even import back some of the material Linux people
>     write in our own Handbook.
> 
> This sounds definitely good :-)

My point exactly.  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes