If you wanna host it, great. Personally, I don’t. - Robert On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 3:18 PM Ben Koenig <techkoe...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> Github??? Do I need to write a howto for hosting a repo with cgit? > > -Ben > > > ------- Original Message ------- > On Friday, May 13th, 2022 at 2:05 PM, Robert Citek <robert.ci...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > 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 >
