From 1716bc976a1981ced2dfbebe5972f3009637631e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Hicks Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:01:40 -0400 Subject: Just a few basic clean-ups. --- TODO | 11 +++++++++-- chapter_01.xml | 2 +- chapter_02.xml | 14 +++++++------- chapter_04.xml | 12 ++++++------ 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 5e3e67e..0f0818b 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -16,8 +16,15 @@ General in reference to how the admin might be misled into thinking that they are causing breakage... -Chapter 2. -* Booting the Installer +Chapter 2. Installation + +* Section 'Booting the Installer' + + Does this need to be reworked? Feels kinda kludgy and amateur. + +* At the tail end we might wish to tell the user about adduser and + inform him that he can skip ahead to chapter 9 briefly if he needs + more info. Chapter 4. Basic Shell Commands diff --git a/chapter_01.xml b/chapter_01.xml index 3dafaeb..c1e2bef 100644 --- a/chapter_01.xml +++ b/chapter_01.xml @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ the Samba project, are released under the terms of the GPL. Another very common license is the BSD license, which is arguably "more -free" than the GPL but imposes no restrictions on derivative works. +free" than the GPL because it imposes no restrictions on derivative works. The BSD license simply requires that the copyright remain intact along with a simple disclaimer. Many of the utilities specific to Slackware are licensed with a BSD-style license. diff --git a/chapter_02.xml b/chapter_02.xml index c817bf4..1a4ef26 100644 --- a/chapter_02.xml +++ b/chapter_02.xml @@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ RAM. Booting the Installer -FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN! -FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN! -FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN! -FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN! -FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN! -FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN! -FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN! +FILL THIS IN! +FILL THIS IN! +FILL THIS IN! +FILL THIS IN! +FILL THIS IN! +FILL THIS IN! +FILL THIS IN! diff --git a/chapter_04.xml b/chapter_04.xml index 827b92f..8ffeec3 100644 --- a/chapter_04.xml +++ b/chapter_04.xml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ that is what this chapter is all about. Your Slackware Linux system comes with lots of built-in documentation for nearly every installed application. Perhaps the most common method -of reading system documentation is by using the +of reading system documentation is man(1). man (short for manual) will bring up the included man-page for any application, system call, configuration file, or library you tell it @@ -279,7 +279,8 @@ unless the first two already existed, as you saw in the example. Removing a file is as easy as creating one. The -rm(1) will remove a file (assuming of course +rm(1) command will remove a file +(assuming of course that you have permission to do this). There are a few very common arguments to rm. The first is -f and is used to force the removal of a file @@ -342,8 +343,7 @@ order to deal with directories. darkstar:~$ zip -r /tmp/home.zip /home -darkstar:~$ zip /tmp/large_file.zip -/tmp/large_file +darkstar:~$ zip /tmp/large_file.zip /tmp/large_file The order of the arguments is very important. The first filename must @@ -423,8 +423,8 @@ One alternative to gzip is the almost the exact same way. The advantage to bzip2 is that it boasts greater compression strength. Unfortunately, achieving that greater compression is a slow -process, so bzip2 takes longer to run than -other alternatives. +and CPU-intensive process, so bzip2 +typicall takes much longer to run than other alternatives. -- cgit v1.2.3