I have been using linuxPPC for over a year now, and have been extremely pleased with the experience. The only problem i ever seem to encounter in regards to this particular linux distrobution is the lack of support information.
Our newsgroup (comp.os.linux.powerpc) is rarely helpful, and there is no up-to-date documentation that i have found.
My question to you is, What can i as a linuxPPC user do to help you create and/or maintain documentation for new users and users with problems?
I realize that a user could create a html file on how to setup a specific service (Apache, say) and email it to you, but my question also pertains to the larger issue of having no mechanism for users to utilize. For example, i have found the Solutions Database at redhat.com to be incredibly useful when problems arise on my 6.2 system.
I would be more than willing to create a similar Perl/pgsql/php forum/messageboard for others users such as myself, but i do not know if your company have any interest in letting the user community tackle this issue... What can we do to mobilize our PPC forces and continue to advance the linuxPPC distro through usefull documentation?
Re: Where is the product? - It's right here..
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Mozilla/Netscape is written primarily by paid staff, AOL has a fiduciary responsibilty to generate income, ad infinitum.
This submission is a bullsh*t troll if i've ever seen one.
Here's a story submission for you: "Whines now posted as articles on slashdot!" Film at 11. Why dont we have a *genuinely* usefull discussion such as when software should be released (fully standards compliant or 95% feature rich, what?).
We could map the activity of Bill Gates' bank accounts in real time. Wow, all those pretty colors flittering about make me wanna hold up my lighter and yell, "Looking forward to seeing you on f**kedcompany.com soon - you loser!"
Or, you know some other legitimate uses like medicine and stuff..
What? I thought technology was supposed to be fun!:-)
See the Wired 8.07 (July) magazine article for an in depth description. Geez, i would have submitted this if i did not think that *everyone* had already read it!:-)
Damn, isnt that the way it always goes! Thanks moderators for ignoring all my good links and putting out this 90 day old info.. Repeat after me: Bad karma, Bad karma!
Captain Statistics here says that we should "measure each system's number of vulnerabilities against the number of its customers" - WHAT?!
Even my dog would be bright enough to equilibrate the major disparity between user bases (Linux vs. MS) before attempting to measure anything in such a manner.
Oh, and i absolutely loved the idea that an OS written by 40,000 Microsoft employees only has a few less bugs than various distros of Linux coded by about 1/100 of that size workforce.
Hmmm... so if i took 100 below-par programmers and hobbled some crappy software together, and it had a few less bugs than an app by ONE SINGLE programmer (Larry Wall per se), that would mean Larry SUCKS?
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Precisely.
This jack-off says things like "software superiority from Micro$oft" and gets a 3?!
Do you moderators even *READ* these posts?
I have been using linuxPPC for over a year now, and have been extremely pleased with the experience. The only problem i ever seem to encounter in regards to this particular linux distrobution is the lack of support information.
Our newsgroup (comp.os.linux.powerpc) is rarely helpful, and there is no up-to-date documentation that i have found.
My question to you is, What can i as a linuxPPC user do to help you create and/or maintain documentation for new users and users with problems?
I realize that a user could create a html file on how to setup a specific service (Apache, say) and email it to you, but my question also pertains to the larger issue of having no mechanism for users to utilize. For example, i have found the Solutions Database at redhat.com to be incredibly useful when problems arise on my 6.2 system.
I would be more than willing to create a similar Perl/pgsql/php forum/messageboard for others users such as myself, but i do not know if your company have any interest in letting the user community tackle this issue... What can we do to mobilize our PPC forces and continue to advance the linuxPPC distro through usefull documentation?
I believe this is what you are looking for:
ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-halloween/install/
Give Me A Break.
Mozilla/Netscape is written primarily by paid staff, AOL has a fiduciary responsibilty to generate income, ad infinitum.
This submission is a bullsh*t troll if i've ever seen one.
Here's a story submission for you: "Whines now posted as articles on slashdot!" Film at 11. Why dont we have a *genuinely* usefull discussion such as when software should be released (fully standards compliant or 95% feature rich, what?).
Hrmph. :-/
The most succinct and lucid comment to come out of Corporate America this year.
Hell, Bill Gates' entire book did not contain a single paragraph that was as honest and clear as Bob's short letter.
Now class, go write the phrase 'Bill's vaunted "high bandwidth" is really a 300 baud modem.' on the chalkboard 700 times!
PS: Thanks for the feedback Bob!
Wow, Micro$oft's Appeal Schedule 1999.0.1.0.1.2 is so interesting!
I can't wait for Appeal Schedule 2000 to come out! Will it have new and innovative features like drag-case-on-forever plus?!
;-)
We already have this technology.
It's called girls.. and my god, have you seen the resolution?! Wooooooohhhh says Neo.
We could map the activity of Bill Gates' bank accounts in real time. Wow, all those pretty colors flittering about make me wanna hold up my lighter and yell, "Looking forward to seeing you on f**kedcompany.com soon - you loser!"
Or, you know some other legitimate uses like medicine and stuff..
What? I thought technology was supposed to be fun! :-)
See the Wired 8.07 (July) magazine article for an in depth description. Geez, i would have submitted this if i did not think that *everyone* had already read it! :-)
Damn, isnt that the way it always goes! Thanks moderators for ignoring all my good links and putting out this 90 day old info.. Repeat after me: Bad karma, Bad karma!
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/moletron ics.html
Captain Statistics here says that we should "measure each system's number of vulnerabilities against the number of its customers" - WHAT?!
Even my dog would be bright enough to equilibrate the major disparity between user bases (Linux vs. MS) before attempting to measure anything in such a manner.
Oh, and i absolutely loved the idea that an OS written by 40,000 Microsoft employees only has a few less bugs than various distros of Linux coded by about 1/100 of that size workforce.
Hmmm... so if i took 100 below-par programmers and hobbled some crappy software together, and it had a few less bugs than an app by ONE SINGLE programmer (Larry Wall per se), that would mean Larry SUCKS?
Dont think so pal.