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  • From: John Harding <scm AT mail.sourcemage.org>
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  • Subject: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master tome rdp by John Harding (ed0b372f7f47e8a2545d4ad5aec8a72a41714592)
  • Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:28:06 -0600

GIT changes to master tome rdp by John Harding <johnh AT kuberaconsulting.com>:

Intro_to_sourcemage.txt | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit ed0b372f7f47e8a2545d4ad5aec8a72a41714592
Author: John Harding <johnh AT kuberaconsulting.com>
Commit: John Harding <johnh AT kuberaconsulting.com>

Added section discribing our target audience. Fixed some verbiage
and added some definitions. Obviously, feel free to revert or
further edit.

diff --git a/Intro_to_sourcemage.txt b/Intro_to_sourcemage.txt
index c9f58e5..e430e20 100644
--- a/Intro_to_sourcemage.txt
+++ b/Intro_to_sourcemage.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ of returning control back to System Admi
Our main project, Source Mage GNU/Linux, is an operating system
distribution.

+0) Who's it for
+
+System administrators, power-users and others who really want control
+over their systems and want to understand better how "things" work.
+
1) A source based distribution

We are primarily "source-based" which means that our package
@@ -32,14 +37,16 @@ GPL software. However, we also have a co
binaries, or nvidia-drivers), most of them up to date,
even though we do not officially maintain them.

-To ensure an administrator oriented system, our packages are written
- with the intention of staying as close to upstream
+To ensure an administrator oriented system, our packages are written
+with the intention of staying as close to upstream
vendor's vision as possible. We avoid over-complicating things with
additional, and often intrusive, scripting and padding many popular
binary distro's include. You are the administrator and you know how
best to deploy and configure software. We handle the installation.
For ease-of-learning, the command names are based on a sorcerous
-metaphor of "cast"ing and "dispel"ling "spells" from a "grimoire".
+metaphor of "cast"ing (downloading, configuring, compiling
+and installing) and "dispel"ling (uninstalling) "spells" (the bash
+scripts for each program) from a "grimoire" (a collection of spells).
(link to a sorcery (commands) page)

3) How we do it (<-- awkward. maybe someone with a better english can
@@ -60,9 +67,9 @@ We have shown this time and time again.
Additionnaly, the distribution is provided with an easy-to-use basic
system installer from which administrators can not only install but
rebuild to their specification. It is also possible to install from
-alternative methods, like from a chroot (linke to relevant page).
+alternative methods, like from a chroot (link to relevant page).
We currently support x86 architecture, ppc (how true is that?), and
-we are working on fully supporting 64 bits archs as well (same comment).
+we are working on fully supporting 64 bit archs as well (same comment).
(Link to relevant page as well.)

4) Our community



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