[PLUG] Brainfart ... PLUG cookbooks
Robert Citek
robert.citek at gmail.com
Fri May 13 21:05:00 UTC 2022
Hmmm. Put something up on GitHub, post the link here, and see if people
fork it. Or, even better, issue a Pull Request. - Robert
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 2:39 PM Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> I have /many/ verbose and vaguely-useful computer books on
> my shelves - the authors run on for pages about a few
> subjects, rather than provide well indexed terse paragraphs
> about MANY subjects.
>
> Over the years, the PLUG list has accumulated some nonsense
> and MUCH wisdom. I can imagine that content seeding three
> books, for sale worldwide:
>
> The PLUG Development Cookbook - designing software tools
> The PLUG Deployment Cookbook - setting up systems
> The PLUG Disaster Cookbook - quickly recovering systems
>
> These fat books would contain rewritten, terse, half page
> "recipes" for MANY tasks, with many citations of other books
> and links to useful websites archived on The Internet Archive.
> Product placement book citations, used responsibly, might
> help sell other in-depth computer books.
>
> There are many flavors of Linux and BSD in current use.
> The cookbooks might come in multiple versions for multiple
> "cuisines". On the other hand, they should be designed to
> share best practices and tools between communities; we have
> much to learn from each other.
>
> The Cookbook series might be updated annually, but not with
> "year dates", instead a letter or version number. Lists of
> which distro versions they cover, and an online reverse
> index of distro version to book letter, would help users and
> sysadmins pair deployed machines and the most helpful books.
>
> When a distro is updated, replace old cookbooks with updated
> cookbooks - but keep the old cookbooks paired with old
> backups, which will help with future recovery of old data.
> Old books somewhere else, perhaps as a well-indexed online
> library business.
>
> Keith
>
> --
> Keith Lofstrom keithl at keithl.com
>
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