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Topic: Distrowatch has yet another article about DSL, Comparison of LiveCD Distros - DSL

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ke4nt1

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Posted: July 26 2004,07:53

Read the Headline !

DSL posted yet again at Distrowatch !
Another article about LiveCD's
We rated a B+.... ok
Need to write them and tell them to use
a screenshot that ain't a YEAR OLD..

...and no mention of the Click & Run - myDSL system...

He MUST have pulled out an old 0.4.X ....
It's got Nedit in the picture....
Changed to Scite in 0.5.1.... Hello!?
( Looks like he pulled the screenshot from 0.4.5 .....
- Baby Tux Display - from the main index page...)

Give em' grief..

73
ke4nt

monkymind

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Posted: July 26 2004,10:55

I'd rather see effort put into a detailed users manual for DSL (Knoppix etc. too) than on more lightweight "I put it in and it booted in 1 min 10 sec" style reviews.

In fact if there were such a users manual the reviewers would at least have somewhere to get real info from

I hate

writing but would be happy to add screenshots, diagrams and other stuff to such an effort.

Hell even a proposed "Table of Contents" would make me happy

Any budding technical writers lurking in the forums???

Cheers
rob

optixz
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Posted: July 26 2004,15:00

I'd love to help in this regard. This is one thing I've been waiting to see and just don't have that much time personally get involved up to now. I'll see if I can get something started if there are not objections from John.

I think DSL has a great community here and any pointers in regards to documentation would be great.

optixz

optixz

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Posted: July 26 2004,15:52

As a follow-up to my previous note.

I've had experience writing mini tutorials for everyday work. They usually consist of high level walk throughs of what to type, click and look for in M$ Windows systems.

My style is to keep things simple and to the point, and of course helpful.

I'm going to write a how-to from start to finish of popping a CD with DSL in and then getting to browse and shutting the system down.

I think individual how-tos for specific applications are necessary as well, especially since I have no idea how to get started on some apps and end up spending hours looking through different online documentation.

All the Best,
optixz

AwPhuch

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Posted: July 27 2004,19:27

Quote (ke4nt1 @ July 26 2004,03:53)

url?

Please
-note to self- dont be a troll
http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=interview-damnsmall
http://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall

Brian
AwPhuch

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