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Old 02-18-2005, 09:58 AM   #1
cathectic
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New Slackware Entries in LQ Wiki


Hi all,

As I'm pretty fed up with having an FAQ thread that can't be updated after X amount of time, and nowhere that provides a quick overview of Slackware (i.e. telling people the resources available to answers simple questions, some of the basic differences between Slack and other distros, and links to The Book and The Unofficial Revised Book), I've done something constructive with my time and added two entries to the LinuxQuestions.org Wiki:

Slackware Introduction - http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...e-Introduction
Slackware FAQ - http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Slackware-FAQ

The introduction was put together by myself, so feel free to correct it, add to it, tear it to shreds or come up with something better - it's a Wiki after all!

The FAQ section is rather sparse at the moment because I'm not happy copying and pasting other peoples answers to it, as they may not have agreed to the Creative Commons license that the wiki uses (so the only answer there at the moment is one of mine). As things come up, it can be added to so that we have a more concise place to refer certain questions to (rather than a link to a thread where the answer is post #29 or some such)

(Hopefully, we can later get a new thread sticked on this forum along the lines of 'Please Read This Before You Post' or 'Intro to Slackware', or something along those lines, that points to the wiki. The advantage being that a wiki can be updated whenever it needs to be, unlike the time lock on forum post editing)

Last edited by cathectic; 02-18-2005 at 12:39 PM.
 
Old 02-18-2005, 05:32 PM   #2
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Good stuff. I haven't been keeping up with the wiki lately so I don't know how it fits in with other things but, taken as is, those are nice contributions. I think the Intro captures things very well.

I added a couple to the FAQ and hope others get in on these, too.
 
Old 02-19-2005, 06:58 PM   #3
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hey cathectic, i just wanna say that i think this slackware stuff you've put-up is really good... i hope i can contribute something soon, but for now i just wanted to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH - the wiki and faq will help a lot of people get started with slackware...

=)
 
Old 02-19-2005, 07:38 PM   #4
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Re: New Slackware Entries in LQ Wiki

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Originally posted by cathectic
The introduction was put together by myself, so feel free to correct it, add to it, tear it to shreds or come up with something better - it's a Wiki after all!
I must also thank you very much for dedicating a great effort to pull this together. That is some information that has needed to be more accessible for a long time. I will start linking to it when those questions are asked in the future.
 
  


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