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<h1>Re: Distribution HOWTO about to bite the dust.</h1>
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<li><em>To</em>: "Eric S. Raymond" <<A HREF="mailto:esr@snark.thyrsus.com">esr@snark.thyrsus.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Distribution HOWTO about to bite the dust.</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: David Lawyer <<A HREF="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:20:20 -0700</li>
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<li><em>Cc</em>: <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A>, <A HREF="mailto:ldp-docbook@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-docbook@lists.linuxdoc.org</A>, <A HREF="mailto:johnsonm@redhat.com">johnsonm@redhat.com</A></li>
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:18:54PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
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> In the last two weeks I have converted almost all the HOWTOs I
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> maintain from SGML-Tools to DocBook 4.1, pursuant to the consensus at
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> the Documentation Summit held in conjunction with the recent O'Reilly
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> Open Source conference.
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[snip]
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> The only HOWTO I'm responsible for that I haven't converted yet is the
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> Distribution HOWTO.
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> After considering the matter for some time, I have come to believe
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> that the Distribution HOWTO is obsolete. Today, I think the function
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> it serves would be better filled by a pointer from the META-FAQ and
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> Installation FAQ to websites which track distributions on a regular
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> basis (notably the LWN distributions list and the ports page.).
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While it's obsolete, I think it's needed. There are well over a
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hundred distributions and a newcomer to Linux wants to find out fast
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which one s/he should get. Reading about the latest changes and
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releases in LWN is fine for those who have a lot of time to spend
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selecting a distribution. But for many (most?) people, they would like
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to read a short review of the major distributions and then make a
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choice. That's what the Distribution-HOWTO is for.
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> Accordingly, I request the following actions:
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> 1) That the Distribution HOWTO be dropped from the list of active
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> HOWTOs.
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Since it's still needed, I think it should go to "Unmaintained".
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> 2) That the META-FAQ be updated to point to LWN's distribution page
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> and the ports page).
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> Of course, if anyone disagrees and wants to continue maintaining the
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> Distribution HOWTO, that person is welcome to do so.
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Let's look for a new maintainer. And thanks to ESR for his work on
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it. I found it useful. Could someone add a link to LWN's
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distribution page to it so it would then be somewhat less obsolete?
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> I'm now one HOWTO short :-). I see that the META-FAQ hasn't been updated
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> three years. Mike, shall I pick it up?
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> --
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>
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David Lawyer
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