Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-31 Thread Stefano Canepa
Il giorno sab, 30/05/2009 alle 18.22 +0200, Holger Levsen ha scritto: Hi Eric, On Freitag, 29. Mai 2009, Eric Doviak wrote: [and the rest I removed] I'd suggest Eric puts this document under a proper licence (/me suggests GPL2+, just add another appendix add the bottom with the licence

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-31 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Stefano, On Sonntag, 31. Mai 2009, Stefano Canepa wrote: This structure sounds good for me, but I don't understand how do you think to manage the wiki pages working this way as it looks like you are proposing to use po4a, XML and all other tools used in documentation projects. The wiki is

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 31 May 2009, Holger Levsen wrote: The wiki is used to create and edit the english version. .po files are used for translation. The other tools are used to create HTML and PDF versions from the wikis docbook output and the .po files. They are only used when+by building the package.

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-31 Thread Eric Doviak
Frans Pop wrote: IMO that means the debian-edu concept is not suitable for this document as it is not intended to be published as a separate manual. We have the Installation Guide for that. This document is intended to remain on the Wiki as an optional reference for users and as such

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-31 Thread Frans Pop
(No need to CC me, I read the list. I CCed you because you were CCed in earlier posts and I'm not sure if you are subscribed.) On Sunday 31 May 2009, Eric Doviak wrote: In summary, the Illustrated Guide serves a different audience than the official manual does. On that basis, I hope you will

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-31 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 31. Mai 2009, Eric Doviak wrote: IMO that means the debian-edu concept is not suitable for this document as it is not intended to be published as a separate manual. Why? Can you explain, Frans? As Eric explains, those are two different documents... Actually I wanted to

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Eric, On Freitag, 29. Mai 2009, Eric Doviak wrote: [and the rest I removed] I'd suggest Eric puts this document under a proper licence (/me suggests GPL2+, just add another appendix add the bottom with the licence text...) and then hopefully everybody is happy to add/edit content :-)

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Stefano, On Donnerstag, 28. Mai 2009, Stefano Canepa wrote: I'll try to find out the time to translate it into italian. ok, you cannot (sensible) translate it yet. But I also got an offer for a spanish translation, so I plan to go ahead and provide the means for proper translations soon.

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-29 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:01 -0800, Praveen A wrote: 2009/2/18 Eric Doviak e...@doviak.net: For people who are new to GNU/Linux and are simply trying to install Debian on a home desktop, I wrote an Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux.[3] Some comments, Now openjdk is

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 29. Mai 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Just a quick comment regarding... I'd suggest Eric puts this document under a proper licence (/me suggests GPL2+, just add another appendix add the bottom with the licence text...) and then hopefully everybody is happy to add/edit content

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-29 Thread Eric Doviak
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Your recommendation aren't consistent with Debian. Given my preference for consistency over confusion, I will definitely edit the guide to make it consistent with Debian's recommendations. Just give me a week or two to make the changes. I'm rather busy at the moment.

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-28 Thread Stefano Canepa
Il giorno lun, 25/05/2009 alle 19.36 +0200, Holger Levsen ha scritto: Hi Eric, On Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009, Eric Doviak wrote: At Holger's suggestion, I placed the Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian on the Debian Wiki[1]. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/LennyIllustratedInstall Cool!

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Eric, On Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009, Eric Doviak wrote: At Holger's suggestion, I placed the Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian on the Debian Wiki[1]. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/LennyIllustratedInstall Cool! I'm not sure what the next step is here, so please let me know what else I

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-21 Thread Eric Doviak
At Holger's suggestion, I placed the Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian on the Debian Wiki[1]. The text is pretty much the same, but I made some changes so that it would be appropriate for Debian documentation (e.g. removing the word I, removing my opinions, etc.). At Praveen's suggestion, I

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Eric, On Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009, Eric Doviak wrote: For people who are new to GNU/Linux and are simply trying to install Debian on a home desktop, I wrote an Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux.[3] Very nice! I never intended to create an official Debian document, but --

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-18 Thread Praveen A
2009/2/18 Eric Doviak e...@doviak.net: For people who are new to GNU/Linux and are simply trying to install Debian on a home desktop, I wrote an Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux.[3] Thanks, this is nice. Some comments, Now openjdk is in debian so it is better to suggest it

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-18 Thread Praveen A
ccing debian-doc. 2009/2/18 Eric Doviak e...@doviak.net: Dear Debian Installer Team, Congratulations on the recent release of Debian Lenny. I would also like to tip my hat to the people who worked on the installation guide[1] and its translations into 16 languages. They did a fantastic job.