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General
* Aim to update references to kernel versions and Slackware versions to those
used in the most recent release of Slackware. I've seen kernel 2.6.29.4 and
Slackware 12.0.0 for instance.
* cron
* more extensive CLI apps like v2.0
* no idea where the hell udev is covered in here, but we need to do a bit of
talk about it. Nothing too advanced, and we definitely DO NOT want to
imply that users should have to do much with udev. All of the asshattery
out there with trying to automount shit with udev is, well, asshattery.
* need to mention that /etc/udev/rules.d/<somefile> overrides an identically
named file in /lib/udev/rules.d/
* need to mention persistent rules that are system-generated, especially
in reference to how the admin might be misled into thinking that they are
causing breakage...
Chapter 3. Booting
* Section 'mkinitrd'
* /usr/share/mkinitrd_command_generator.sh
"Now that we've created out initrd" -> "Now that we've created our initrd"
"most of these warnings are issued by the use of LVM" << I think that at
this point of the book, people will be scared off by the unfamiliar
'LVM' and listing "/dev/raven/64root" as a root device may be confusing
to people who expect something like "/dev/sda1". Better to discuss LVM
later on.
Chapter 4. Basic Shell Commands
* Section 'Reading Documents'
Perhaps split this with subsections for cat, more, and less?
* In the section about LZMA, possibly title it "XZ / LZMA"
Since we are officially *.txz as our standard pkgtype.
Chapter 6. X Windows
* Section 'configuring the X server'
"The second most popular way to configure X on your system is the handy
xorgconfig(1)." << Factually, this is no longer true. The xorgconfig and
xorgcfg utilities have been removed as per Slackware 13.0. What you
*should* mention is that the X in Slackware will auto-configure itself
if a xorg.conf file is missing (or will automatically configure components
for any sections that are missing from an existing xorg.conf using the
information it receives from the HAL daemon)
* note that HAL is slated for deprecation and this might be handled by
udev directly at some point in the future...
Chapter 8. Users and Groups
* Section 'Other User and Group Tools'
You could mention the tool here that is most sought after in IRC and
forums: the "gpasswd" program which allows you to add a user to one
additional group without touching on your current group management
(remember that "usermod -G" will not retain your current group membership
while "gpasswd -a" will).
Chapter 10. Working with Filesystems
* Section 'Local Filesystem Types'
Do not forget to mention ext4.
* Section 'Network Filesystems' / 'NFS'
You could mention here how the command "showmount -e <remote_server> "
allows you to find out exactly what NFS exports a remote server has made
available.
Chapter 11. vi
* Table 11.2. vi Cheat Sheet
You should really add "dw" (delete a word - and store it in the
copybuffer) "yw" (copy a word to the copy buffer), "yy" (copy a line to
the copy buffer) and "p" (paste the content of the copybuffer at the
cursor's location)
Chapter 15. Basic Networking Commands
* Section 'Web Browsers'
Should we include curl along with the others?
* Section 'NNTP Clients'
Should we even have this section? At this time, I'm leaning towards 'no'.
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