[Slackdocs] Merry X-Mas & some news

[Niki Kovacs]

Hello fellow Slackers,

First of all, merry Christmas to all. May these days be full of joy and 
peace for you.

I've been in read-only mode for quite some time now, mainly because of a 
Linux training job that's been keeping me very busy since the end of 
October.

The students have repeatedly asked for some documentation in "digested" 
form, so I've created a blog that I'm regularly filling with articles 
drawn from my own documentation in various notebooks (paper) or simple 
text files. The blog is starting to get in shape, take a peek here:

http://www.microlinux.fr/blog/

The reason why I'm not directly including these pages into the Slackware 
Documentation Project is that 1) I'm first writing them in French, and 
2) I have to go very fast, so I can't go through the whole validation 
process (even if I'm a God Of Validation here myself :oD)

The articles are mostly about basic-to-advanced system administration: 
DHCP, DNS, package management, LILO, building an initrd, etcetera.

Basically, all these articles are free for eventual cannibalization. For 
instance, I've written a very detailed article about package management, 
that also includes rebuilding packages, working with SlackBuilds, adding 
third party software from source, working with sbopkg, and so on. Check 
it out here:

http://www.microlinux.fr/blog/gestion-des-paquets-slackware/

I can only begin adding these articles starting in March, but if you 
folks want to use it as a basis right now, feel free to use it as you like.

My articles have all been tried "live" by a bunch of Linux sysadmin 
students, and I'm rewriting them using many of their questions until 
things are clear in their heads and in my documentation.

happy Slacking, and "à bientôt",

Niki