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Mutagenix: Slackware Based Live CDs

一個新興的 LiveCD Project，以 Slackware 為基礎並利用 Linux-Live Project 的 build script 所建置而成，套件管理採用 slapt-get。

A dynamic and mutable variant of Linux; Any one of several LiveCDs based on Slackware and Linux-Live. Versions available include KDE and Dropline-Gnome.

Announcing The Slackware Handbook Project

Mad Penguin 日前宣佈成立 Slackware Handbook Project，以提供 Slackware 的使用者們完善易讀且高品質的技術文件，其運作模式將會彷照 FreeBSD Handbook。

Mad Penguin announced today that they have launched the Slackware Handbook Project , promised to be the most complete documentation ever created for the oldest Linux distribution in active development. The handbook will be a very close cousin to the FreeBSD Handbook , which is a document noted for its thorough approach to documenting the operating system. According to sources at Mad Penguin, there is a void in the current offerings of technical documents available for the popular open source operating system.

其中 Mad Penguin 的創辦人 Adam Doxtater 提到︰

Not only will we be able to provide a central documentation source for Slackware Linux, but in keeping with the theory of this model, it will never be dated.

Slackware Handbook Project 網址︰http://www.slackersbible.org/

連結請見: LinuxTW.org

新站剛開張，主要的大略方針是以專業的角度提供 Linux 使用者在台灣的相關新聞與資源，目前只推 Gentoo, Debian, Slackware 三個 distros，雖然像 Mandrake, Fedora 等在台灣也有相當多的使用者，不過至今我好像沒看到比較正式的網站（或討論區）在做推廣。

為了不要浪費資源，在台灣已有推廣社群的使用者，請至該社群的討論區（各大推廣社群資源）。其他使用者，歡迎使用本站提供的討論區。

未來我的主力大概就放在 WSOT 跟 LinuxTW.org 這兩個站吧。

Diary for titus

titus 提到了幾點關於如何學習好的 C Programming style，下列是他個人的經驗與建議：

# Read other people”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””’’s code, a lot. Back in the early ‘””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””’’’90s when I first dove into C, I spent some time getting GNU utilities to compile on both an SGI and a weird BSD/SYSV crossover machine we had. I learned a helluva lot about C programming from that, especially with respect to portability.

# Fix other people”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””’’s code, a lot. Ditto above.

# Work on small parts of some open source project or another. I worked on a conquer-like game called dominion, with a group of pretty good hackers. In the end I think the overall design was lacking, but the nitty gritty of each individual code file was crafted by very experienced C hackers.

# Read a lot. For large-scale program design, Lakos”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””’’s C++ book is fantastic; Stevens”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””’’ book on UNIX Network Programming was a prime source of material for me before that. Books like Pragmatic Programmer and so on offer a lot of advice that seems too obvious to be useful, but is in fact quite useful.

MozSource Support

我還是不太相信以郵件(或任何方式)來進行 Mozilla 產品家族的問題支援能有多少的甜頭可賺？甚至還推出 GuideBooks 的行銷手法。

價錢雖然不貴，但個人用戶沒必要去購買這樣的服務，同學朋友問一問，再不然就線上搜尋求解，花的時間我想比 $4.99 還來得划算。

Our crew spends all day learning the ins and outs of these apps so you won”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””’’t have to. During this beta period, we”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””’’re charging just $4.99 per incident.

想來想去，除了一般的公司行號之外，再來可能的主打客戶對象也許就是學術教育單位囉?!