Re: [Devil-linux-develop] DL promotions.

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Dean Nedelman wrote:
>>>If you want, I can probably do this.  I have written several technology
>>>white papers before.  I would just need to know about how long you would
>>>want it, and if there were any features you wanted highlighted.  (For
>>>example, I would not be the person to talk about the OpenMOSIX.)
>>
>>Now it gets even better.
>>Why don't you 2 write that thing and I answer all the questions you have.
>>Then I can concentrate my time more on developing stuff, just add me as a
>>co-author. ;-)
> 
> 
> I could think of several different types of articles:
> 
> o An "announcement" of DL 1.0, what it is, and what has changed since the
> 0.5 release.  This would be a 10,000 foot view of DL.
> 
> o An installation writeup describing a basic two nic, NAT, DHCP, Firewall
> setup (using Bruce's scripts, of course!).
> 
> o A DL advocacy paper, describing the problem it solves and why people
> should use it.
> 
> These are all different types of articles - and I see all three of these
> types all the time.  Which would does everybody think we should use?

I think the first 2 are necessary, the third one would be very good on 
our website.

> Also, I am comfortable using two different writing styles - a standard
> serious style, or a lighter style which might include comments like "Its a
> home firewall!  Its a Business firewall! No, wait - its two, two firewalls
> in one!".  Any objection to the later style?

I personally prefer the last style. For one thing it doesn't get boring 
and DL is our hobby. We just need to make clear, that we offer a 
"serious product".


cya
   Heiko