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on Saturday September 16 2017, @03:36AM
from the static-is-a-precursor-to-shutdown dept.
from the static-is-a-precursor-to-shutdown dept.
After 13 years the Debian-Administration website will go read-only at the end of the month. Then later in the year it will transform it into a solely static-site so that the articles, weblogs, and associated comments are not lost - and they can be served via single server or two. Mostly this is happening due to lack of new content being added and folks posting more elsewhere.
https://debian-administration.org/article/730/This_site_is_going_to_go_read-only
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday September 16 2017, @02:08PM (2 children)
So the unix spirit folks moved to freebsd or devuan or other distros because its hard to get motivated anymore about yet another fedora clone gnome desktop bootloader. I remember when Debian was the Universal OS, those were exciting days. Anyway, wheres the analogy sites for other distros?
The problem with "heres how to do cool stuff on FreeBSD" is FreeBSD is an engineered rather than organically grown OS with excellent docs. So first of all doing cool stuff is logical and sensible and predictable and doesn't need a guide, secondly the best doc for that kind of work is:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/system-administration.html [freebsd.org]
For example out of paranoia whenever I resize a disk I have sec-17.3 open in a tab although everythings well engineered and logical and unsurprising so I don't really need it.
None the less if someone knows of something like debianadminstration but for Devuan or FreeBSD or other refugee OS, that would be interesting.
So much of debianadministration was the areas where Debian was poorly documented or poorly engineered (in a relative sense, things were usually pretty good).
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Saturday September 16 2017, @04:57PM (1 child)
Debian reference? ( http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ [debian.org] (or package debian-reference-en))
That is the closest thing I can think of, however http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals [debian.org] offers the standard choices.
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Saturday September 16 2017, @05:42PM
(Bad form to respond to myself)
Ooops, seems I didn't get enough sleep. Misread it as you where looking for BSD-like alternatives in Debian (on a reread I noticed you where asking for withing a debian-alternative)