Re: [LI] Frequently Asked Questions

["Joseph John" <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Binand
It was a good suggestion from u'r side, I will be happy to spare some
timedaily  for the FAQ, please do mail me in what way I can be helpful to
maintaining The FAQ
                    Regards
                     Joseph John

----- Original Message -----
From: Binand Raj S. <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux India <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 1:13 PM
Subject: [LI] Frequently Asked Questions


> Hi all,
>
> It seems that the subscribers count of linux-india has crossed 500. Most
> of the large mailing lists and newsgroups usually keep a FAQ list, which
> is maintained by a volunteer and posted to the newsgroup or mailing list,
> or a pointer to a web site where the FAQ is archived is posted. Seeing
> the number of queries here regarding SIS cards the appear with alarming
> frequency and other problems which are repeated so often, I believe we
> should also have a similar set of questions compiled and maintained at
> the web site, with a pointer to it added to the footer of each posting.
>
> I have made a simple outline for the FAQ, and here it is:
>
> Introduction to Unix in general, and Linux in particular.
> History of Linux.
> Various Linux distributions.
> Linux + Windows (95/98/NT)
> Supported cards - List of display/ethernet/scsi/sound cards
> Other hardware - printers, scanners, cdwriters etc.
> Configuration issues - display, network...
> Details about various ISPs in India, and their idiosyncrasies.
> Basic system administration.
> Network setup.
> Samba
> Apache/Squid
> Programmers' tools - basically stuff that will be unknown to
> someone used to Windows IDEs (vim/emacs, make, gdb, rcs/cvs, indent...)

> Other tools - Office suites (lyx should get a mention here)
> Email/News clients.
> Other email tools - procmail, formail, fetchmail...
> Web designers' tools - HTML editors, HTML syntax checkers, gimp...
> Engineering software - matlab, octave, gnuplot, xfig...
> TeX and LaTeX
> PHP3
> SQL Servers
> How to -
> 1. Run a program at specified times?
> 2. Run ftp from a script?
> 3. Other common questions that pop up on the list
> DNS problems
> Firewalling fundamentals
> Books and References
> Anything else
>
> I will volunteer to maintain it, but of course I cannot write the whole
> thing.  People who are interested and want to contribute please suggest
> additions/subtractions/modifications to the above outline, and we can
> go ahead with it. I would say Jan 2000 will be a manageable target for
> the release of this FAQ list.
>
> Waiting for feedback,
>
> Binand
>
> --
> #include <stdio.h>                                   | Binand Raj S.
> char *p = "#include <stdio.h>%cchar *p = %c%s%c;     | This is a self-
> int main(){printf(p,10,34,p,34,10);return 0;}%c";    | printing program.
> int main(){printf(p,10,34,p,34,10);return 0;}        | Try it!!
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