[PLUG] Brainfart ... PLUG cookbooks

[Ben Koenig]

Github??? Do I need to write a howto for hosting a repo with cgit?

-Ben


------- Original Message -------
On Friday, May 13th, 2022 at 2:05 PM, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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