[clug] Why switch to Linux?

Jason j.lee.nielsen at gmail.com
Mon Nov 13 03:24:56 GMT 2006


I wouldn't reinvent the wheel with this, just link to Linux.org or livecdlist.com or some other site that gives an overview of each one. keeping a long list of links to distros must be hard to maintain with any sort of useful info.

Jason


On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:36:37 +1100, Robert Edwards <bob at cs.anu.edu.au> wrote:

>
> Some (many?) Linux distro's now have their own distro-specific wikis.
>
> Why not have a bunch of links to the the distro's alongside links
> to their respective user-contrib wikis (maybe on the "Get Started"
> page). Would save repeating information about how to solve problems
> that are distro-related. Just need to make sure that the visitor
> knows that the links are to external sites.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob Edwards.
>
> Chris Smart wrote:
>> Jsparksaa at cs.com wrote:
>>> Might I suggest including a link/ some links to helpful websites to
>>> help newbies and others like me who are not new but who are not well
>>> practised in linux.
>>>
>>>   One area where I still have some trouble is in installations and I
>>> re-fought a battle today trying to install Audacity.  There was a
>>> dependancy I was having trouble resolving.
>>>
>>>   I had used the packman website in the past as an additional
>>> installation source for Suse installs, but for some unknown reason, I
>>> later turned this source off.  After some googling (sp), I re-found
>>> the site and I was able to complete the audacity install.
>>> http://packman.iu-bremen.de/
>>>
>>> I am sure there are others out there who would appreciate this
>>> information.
>> Hey Jim, thanks for the thoughts.
>>
>> I guess the problem with this is that I don't have "control" over the
>> information on the pages we link to. If we link to confusing complicated
>> sites, that might be a bad thing. Plus, there are so many different
>> issues people might want information on. You wanted info on fixing your
>> repositories, but there are a million other things that people might
>> want a resource for. Is that too hard to accommodate?
>>
>> Maybe this is where the wiki (http://wiki.makethemove.net) can come in
>> handy? If you worked out your issue, then why not post an entry on the
>> wiki? Then people have a central "controlled" resource to find
>> assistance. Does this idea sort of fill the gap you're mentioning?
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Chrs
>>
>




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