Re: [Linkbat-writers] Linkbat Knowledge Unit Topics

[James M. <lin...@ji...>]

On Thursday 21 November 2002 07:37, Navin Dhanuka wrote:
> Under OS we should also cover Kernel Internals

I do a fair bit of that already. However, there is a lot more that I want to 
include.

> Linux-Windows Integration could be names as
> GNU/Linux & MS Windows

You're on the right track with that, but I think it is too long. Shar Houlihan 
suggested "Linux & Windows". That's short and sweet.

> .. Switching your OS to Linux
> .... Xwindow System (Gnome, KDE)
> .... Browsers, Email-Clients (Opera, Netscape, Konqueror)
> .... Word Processors & Spread Sheets (OpenOffice.org)
> .... Games (Doom)

These are on my "wish list" of topics to cover. Also, a number of these topics 
will automatically fall into the topics GUI, Applications and so forth, so we 
need to be careful not to repeat too much. Personally, I bite my tongue when 
talking about games. Although I do play occassional, computers are a tool. 
However, we (that I) need to keep in mind that many people see that the 
"work" they do with computers is secondary and playing games is primary. ;-)

> .. Migrating your Network to Linux
> ....  Linux on Server & Win on Clients
> ....  Linux Everywhere

I think this is the big "Integration" topic. Its more than just "migration" as 
we need to addess issue where you **cannot** move to Linux such as 
applications that do not exist on Windows or others on the network that do 
not want to move. I have a small section on Samba (in the networking chapter) 
that I want to expand. However, I am still undecided as to whether to move it 
into the Linux-Windows chapter. Comments?

> .. File Systems
> .... (ext2, xt3, reiserfs, xfs) vs (fat, fat32, ntfs)

Same thing as apps. I discuss the filesystem in details under the Linux 
chapters and don't want to repeat it here (however, I only discuss ext2 but I 
want to cover the others). However, a comparision of the various filesystems 
along with Windows is a good idea.

> Pogramming
> ..Shell Scriting
> ..C
> ..Sed/AWK

I'm missing what you are getting at. Are you suggesting a whole new chapter on 
Programming? I like that. sed, perl and awk are under "editing files" which 
has bothered me from the beginning. Maybe "editing" should be expanded to 
include emacs and maybe so other non-GUI editors. Or maybe also the GUI 
editors. Hmmmm. Comments?

> >This is not the same as "Users" which refers to topics related to user
> >accounts (passwords, permissions, allowing remote access, etc.)
>
> This will go under Administration topic

Exactly.

>
> >Please let me hear from you as soon as possible. (Please, be sure to send
> >to
> >the list and not just to me!)

I keep forgetting that, don't I? ;-)

Regards,

jimmo

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