David Freeman wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:56:45 -0400 Alexis Lee wrote:
Hiya, I'm going to be webmonking for ALUG soon, so as a first step could I have nominations for people who do stuff for ALUG.
Is that webmonk as in perl monk or web monkeying with a missing ey? Anyway, good luck! :o)
Wobwibweb wiggling theurgic marsupial, to be precise.
I am the book monkey, also professional sceptic and also put me down for wireless monkey.
David Freeman: Banana pit.
Also I would like to compile a list of definitive web references for
C == The new testiment/Bible/'C Programming Language' by Kernighan and Richie Java == Java in a nutshell, Thinking in Java, Core Java HTML == http://werbach.com/barebones/ PHP == /dev/null Ask me specifics and I can help.
I'm really after _web_ references here. Once I get commit access sorted out, Jen's books page will be up pretty fast. To the middle of this shall I add links to websites with browsable manuals for quick help mid-project. The Java API dox and Chili!Soft's ASP manual are prime examples of exactly what I think should go in.
I would be very happy to add that barebones thing, except it still hasn't loaded :-p
Heck, maybe an article discussing the perceived merits of each distro? If we could get an advocate from each distro, an article would come together quickly. Note I wish to focus purely on why one ought to use distro X, rather than not use distro Y.
<fx action="light blue touch paper and retire to safe distance"> Why not add which editor, browser, window manager, shell, mail client etc... :o)
The last sentence is key. IMO, wars happen when people have to defend their favoured. Provided the tone is kept positive, the worst that should happen is a disagreement over which is _the_ easiest to install. This is what I envisage:
Debian: Great stability, upgradeability and security. Mandrake: Worked out of the box, with everything I've wanted so far. SuSe: (well, I dunno... <duck />) TONS of packages
Similarly:
Emacs: Everything included and further extensible thru ELISP Vim: Everything a text editor should have, plus many extensibility options Pico: Nice and simple, good starter
I appreciate this may not be very satisfying, but it provides some guidance without granting a license to war on the web.
Perhaps what I'm after is a 'mission statement' for each thing, and could be got from the official sites, but it would be nicer to have something from ALUG itself.
Alexis