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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. Re:link to the handbook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Clicky

  2. why? by darthpenguin · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is already an ongoing project updating the official slackware book at http://slackbook.lizella.net/. For the most part, this work provides most information about daily admin tasks that anyone would need. Why is there this new project, then?

    1. Re:why? by MadRaVen · · Score: 5, Informative

      We started work on this before we knew about that. However, we don't see the two projects as being in conflict. This is more of a community type thing and the goal is to replicate the FreeBSD Handbook, which is quite a bit bigger then the Slackware Book. Our content is all under the BSD license, so the Slackware Book can use it. We arn't trying to steal their thunder or something like that.

  3. Good Luck! by Alan+Hicks · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let me be the first to wish them the best. I've been putting together a little "handbook" of my own (not nearly as ambitious as mimicking the excellent FreeBSD handbook, of which I own a hard copy incidently). Of course, anyone is free to contribute provided they license their writing under the GPL for inclusion. Basically it's a rewrite of the Slackware Linux Essentials book by Chris Lumens, Logan Johnson, and David Cantrell. You can find it here. I call it "The Unofficial Revised Slackware Book Project". Stop by and take a look, I think you'll enjoy it.

    Props to these guys and their project, and I'd like to point out to them that can use anything at the above site provided they do so under the GPL.

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    Slackware, what else when it must be secure, stable, and easy?