Re: Creating Laptop Profiles

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D Canfield <canfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:21 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> >> A first start I would encourage A LOT is this.
> >>
> >> Document all the steps (top to bottom) it took you to setup Fedora Core
> >> on your laptop in the fedoraproject wiki.
> >>
> >> I think it's an excellent idea b/c there are not _that_ many different
> >> laptops out there, there will be a lot of people using the same model.

> Well, my issue is that there is already thinkwiki.org which has most
> of this info.  How much do we want to repeat other documentation that
> is already out there?  What I currently hate about all these laptop
> How-To's is that there end up being  10 of them for each model with
> one covering a lot of detail about X and a docking station, but rushes
> through other aspects, another that talks about configuring buttons
> and wireless, etc.  You end up going to half a dozen documents to get
> the info you need.  Thinkwiki is on a good start, but now you've got
> something like 3-4 documents per laptop (one per distribution with
> possible dupes because of T43 vs T43p).

What needs to be done first is to agree on a common format: What to report,
how to do it. Perhaps not laptop by laptop, but functionality by
functionality? I.e., for a particular machine somebody could fill in the X
stuff, somebody else write about wireless or modem, etc. 
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