Fwd: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?
Forwarding to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Yves Junqueira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 17, 2006 2:42 PM Subject: Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help? To: Jason Spiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 10/17/06, Jason Spiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006-10-17, Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We could start together a project which does this shell scripts, I think > it's not really a lot of work. Don't file a bug, first we can do a > "linuxnewbie" program and someone (maybe myself) will build a debian > package one day. It may be much cleaner to include help links /etc/motd, adivising the user to read a hipothetical "/usr/share/doc/linux-beginners/new-users", or enter a help-mode by typing a certain command. -- Yves Junqueira [EMAIL PROTECTED] / nictuku [IRC] http://www.cetico.org -- Yves Junqueira [EMAIL PROTECTED] / nictuku [IRC] http://www.cetico.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#390569: ITP: nwu -- Network-wide update system for systems which use APT
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yves Junqueira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: nwu Version : 0.1.5 Upstream Author : Yves Junqueira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cetico.org/nwu * License : GPL Description : Network-wide update system for systems which use APT NWU is a remote network updates management tool. Key features are: # Install packages in remote computers # List pending updates # Roll security upgrades to computers # Update the remote nodes packages cache # Receive feedback of failures by email The source package will provide at least three binary packages: - nwu-server - nwu-agent - python-sysinfo Python-sysinfo is a multi-platform abstraction layer to system information, either software and hardware. NWU is currently alpha, almost beta. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.6-xenU-rimu4 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
