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Mad Penguin Launches Slackware Handbook Project

Posted by timothy on from the you-can-paint-this-fence-for-a-single-apple-core dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mad Penguin's Adam Doxtater and Narayan Newton have launched a community-driven site dedicated to bringing the power and depth of the FreeBSD Handbook to Slackware Linux users. The site allows for the community to create and edit its own content. A simple voting system is in place to make sure the content that makes it into the handbook is of the highest quality. This is something that has been needed for some time and the idea of being able to edit our own material is really nice. A very unique project. Read the press release at LinuxPR.com."

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  1. A simple voting system... by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...to keep content of high quality. Now where have I seen something like that?

    1. Re:A simple voting system... by jm92956n · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...to keep content of high quality. Now where have I seen something like that?

      Oh, oh! I know!

      You're talking about the American political system, right?

      Oh, wait. . .

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    2. Re:A simple voting system... by fm6 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Or maybe the focus groups that are Hollywood's excuse for mindless movies.

    3. Re:A simple voting system... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Good work moron! You caught a joke.

      And then absolutely killed it.

  2. Re:link to the handbook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a slakware user, I thank you.
    And btw, the other two guys are also grateful.

  3. Good thing they have a voting system... by GillBates0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /home/handbook/public_html/includes/database.mysql .inc on line 31
    Too many connections

    Line #31 certainly has to go.

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  4. Depth? by koko775 · · Score: 4, Funny

    dedicated to bringing the power and depth of the FreeBSD Handbook to Slackware Linux users

    phew. for a moment there i thought they misspelled "death".

    Jokes aside, what's so remarkable about documentation that everyone contributes that warrant s a news post? If I started a "all you need to know about open source" wiki and posted the link, would it be accepted? (if so, it's time to get some advertisers and start rehashing news)

  5. Re:Gentooism! by Prod_Deity · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean you & the 3 other users made a book waiting for your system to compile?