----- "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" kwade@redhat.com wrote:
From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" kwade@redhat.com To: fedora-docs-list@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:28:00 AM GMT +10:00 Brisbane Subject: Re: Week 35 - Linux Security Guide and Linux Deployment Guide
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The generic "Linux ... Guide" titles cover a lot of ground.
I don't really imagine any of us covering other Linuxes, though. It's clearly outside of the Fedora Docs purview.
Naturally we can just set the scope of the book to use Fedora as the canonical example. But there seems clear room for brand confusion. Wouldn't a Linux Security Guide be about Linux and not just Fedora et al?
General question for the list and specifically for Michael:
Should these be "Fedora ... Guide" instead?
Hi Karsten,
This documentation effort is about Linux, not just Fedora/Red Hat. I'm pulling in some writers from Novell-Suse and Ubuntu to contribute to these fedora hosted projects. We all agree that the way to make Linux survive is to join our lamps together for greater illumination through procedural instruction.
- Mike
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 17:30 -0400, Michael Hideo-Smith wrote:
This documentation effort is about Linux, not just Fedora/Red Hat. I'm pulling in some writers from Novell-Suse and Ubuntu to contribute to these fedora hosted projects. We all agree that the way to make Linux survive is to join our lamps together for greater illumination through procedural instruction.
Fair enough, thanks; it just wasn't otherwise clear.
As we continue, I suppose we'll find a way to sort out the distro specific pieces to inherit.
As it stands, considering the difference between OpenSUSE, Debian, and Fedora, I don't immediately see what the commonality of content will be. While the general approach to and architecture for deployment and security might be similar across those three bases (as examples), the specifics of implementation are highly distro specific.
Do we need a separate project with the Fedora-specific content? Are you thinking of combining it in one document base with conditionals?
- Karsten
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Where is this, now? I, too, was confused by the generic documentation path. While certain items are universal, there is a lot of specific items that I've included in the Fedora Security Guide (on the wiki) that would NOT work in Ubuntu. There are areas where the guide is quite specific with commands and such. How is this handled in this new approach?
Thanks, Eric E-Mail: sparks@fedoraproject.org GPG Key: D74908ED
Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 17:30 -0400, Michael Hideo-Smith wrote:
This documentation effort is about Linux, not just Fedora/Red Hat. I'm pulling in some writers from Novell-Suse and Ubuntu to contribute to these fedora hosted projects. We all agree that the way to make Linux survive is to join our lamps together for greater illumination through procedural instruction.
Fair enough, thanks; it just wasn't otherwise clear.
As we continue, I suppose we'll find a way to sort out the distro specific pieces to inherit.
As it stands, considering the difference between OpenSUSE, Debian, and Fedora, I don't immediately see what the commonality of content will be. While the general approach to and architecture for deployment and security might be similar across those three bases (as examples), the specifics of implementation are highly distro specific.
Do we need a separate project with the Fedora-specific content? Are you thinking of combining it in one document base with conditionals?
- Karsten
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