Minix wikibooks
awoo...@hampshire.edu
on comp.os.minix. Does anyone know who initiated these projects?
The older one, http://wikihost.org/wikis/minix3/, was announced soon
after Minix 3 was publicly announced, and had accumulated some
content, although little had been added recently. I bookmarked it a
week or two ago, but today it is gone. I'd appreciate learning if it
has a new home.
The newer one, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINIX, has an outline but
very little content so far. I'd like to get in touch with whoever is
behind it.
- Al
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M E Leypold
awoo...@hampshire.edu writes:
> Two projects to start wikibooks about using Minix have been announced
> on comp.os.minix. Does anyone know who initiated these projects?
>
> The older one, http://wikihost.org/wikis/minix3/, was announced soon
> after Minix 3 was publicly announced, and had accumulated some
> content, although little had been added recently. I bookmarked it a
> week or two ago, but today it is gone. I'd appreciate learning if it
> has a new home.
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Mat
> very little content so far. I'd like to get in touch with whoever is
> behind it.
>
> - Al
>
It's hard to say who's behind a wiki project :-) However, I started
this page. I hope this project will end up in an open book, which
contains things users, students and developers would like to know about
Minix. Since it is a wiki book it's not just up to one or two authors
to decide what's important or not. The power of hundrets of authors,
who cooperate in writing some pieces in such a book is supposed to end
in a wonderful result.
Starting a wiki book is by far the most critical part. People like
doing corrections or small additions but starting an article or chapter
from scratch is hard work. Therefore, I've started with this little
outline, which can be seen as a frame for the whole book. As more
content is being added as more people will be attracted to add even
more new things - that's just the way it is.
Mat
ast
bit, but haven't added any content yet. I think this is an excellent
project and see it as a kind of hands-on practical guide for new users
and a place to put accumulated knowledge. For example, if someone has a
lot of experience with MINIX 3 on VMware, that can go in the Wiki book
and so on.
I certainly encourage people to add new items to the outline and write
articles about areas in which they have some expertise.
Andy Tanenbaum