Re: [LI] Frequently Asked Questions

["Aditya Deshpande" <aditya.deshpande@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay Binaad I am ready
I was looking for somethhing to contribute
regards
Aditya
----- 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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