Hmmm. Put something up on GitHub, post the link here, and see if people fork it. Or, even better, issue a Pull Request. - Robert
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 2:39 PM Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > I have /many/ verbose and vaguely-useful computer books on > my shelves - the authors run on for pages about a few > subjects, rather than provide well indexed terse paragraphs > about MANY subjects. > > Over the years, the PLUG list has accumulated some nonsense > and MUCH wisdom. I can imagine that content seeding three > books, for sale worldwide: > > The PLUG Development Cookbook - designing software tools > The PLUG Deployment Cookbook - setting up systems > The PLUG Disaster Cookbook - quickly recovering systems > > These fat books would contain rewritten, terse, half page > "recipes" for MANY tasks, with many citations of other books > and links to useful websites archived on The Internet Archive. > Product placement book citations, used responsibly, might > help sell other in-depth computer books. > > There are many flavors of Linux and BSD in current use. > The cookbooks might come in multiple versions for multiple > "cuisines". On the other hand, they should be designed to > share best practices and tools between communities; we have > much to learn from each other. > > The Cookbook series might be updated annually, but not with > "year dates", instead a letter or version number. Lists of > which distro versions they cover, and an online reverse > index of distro version to book letter, would help users and > sysadmins pair deployed machines and the most helpful books. > > When a distro is updated, replace old cookbooks with updated > cookbooks - but keep the old cookbooks paired with old > backups, which will help with future recovery of old data. > Old books somewhere else, perhaps as a well-indexed online > library business. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com >
