2005-05-16 - Slackware Linux Essentials 2.0 Released 2005-03-26 - s/xmd/xdm/ chapter6-xdm.htmml 2005-03-25 - Everyone has Joost Kremers to thank for pointing out all my errors this time. Perhaps next time he'll just give me a diff? :^) - Fixed bad wording. s/longer than the space on one row of/longer than the space on one line of/ - Added paragraph tags in chapter1.html at lines: 53, 55, 62, and 64. - Fixed more bad stuff in chapter1.html s/kernel-the/kernel - the/ s/computers' processor/computer's processor/ s/The linux kernel project was begun/The Linux kernel project was begun/ - Fix bad stuff in chapter1-whatisslack.html s/GUIs(Graphical User Interfaces)/GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces)/ s/no-non-sense/no-nonsense/ - Fixed more bad stuff in chapter2.html s/install it's own documentation/install its own documentation/ s/cd(n)/cd/ - Fixed more bad stuff in chapter3.html s/full-featured linux distribution/full-featured Linux distribution/ - Fixed more bad stuff in chapter3-requirements.html s/most all linux cds suffer/most all Linux cds suffer/ s/rootdsks/rootdisks/ - Fixed more bad stuff in chapter3-setup.html s/Alternately/Alternatively s/These are floppy, CD-ROM, NFS/These are CD-ROM, NFS/ s/pick your type drive/pick your drive type/ - Fixed bad things in chapter4.html s+user home directories.\+user home directories.+ Moved things around line 517, see HTML comment. s/install System V init scripts and scripts for BSD style init./install System V init scripts./ s/xwindows/X windows/ - Fixed bad things in chapter17-modes.html s//INSERT/ s/type /hit ENTER/ - Fixed bad things in chapter17-saving.html s+C-x+C-x k+ s//ENTER/ - Fixed bad things in chapter18-utilities.html s/16/18/ s//package name/ - Fixed bad things in chapter19-getslack.html s/ZipSlack , you/ZipSlack, you/ - Fixed bad things in chapter19-booting.html Line 45: fixed unicode double-quotes. 2005-03-24 - Fixed sentence fragment in chapter8.html s/Maybe when the 2.8/Maybe the 2.8/ - Fixed bad grammer in chapter8.html s/best to only become superuser/best to only become the superuser/ 2005-03-23 - Fixed typo in the new chapter6-xdm.html. Thanks to Jacob Anhoej. 2005-03-22 - Added discussion of booting into X11 in chapter 6. Suggested by mRgOBlin. 2005-03-16 - Welcome to slackbook-1.0-rc1! - Got up off my lazy butt and borrowed Slackware.com's page on ppsetup and integrated it into the book. Thanks to Dennis Kibbe for kicking me in the butt about this, and thanks to Patrick J. Volkerding for giving us permission to use content from slackware.com. - Fixed all the navigation headers (I think). All should be uniform now. - Added mv to chapter 10. How did I ever miss this one? 2005-03-15 - Fixed quite a lot of typos today. Thanks in large part to those often un-named people submitting a little typo report. You all have my sincere thanks. I should go into work on the book again Real Soon Now and put out a small section on pppsetup. This is the most useful suggestion I've seen so far, and is really something that needs to be done. If anyone else can think of anything that should be in here, please e-mail me: alan@lizella.net. Of course, I encourage you to join the low-traffic slackbook mailing list. Details are below. 2005-03-02 - Didn't think I had made this many typos! More thanks to John Yast, who's a real master at pointing out my poor spelling, grammer, and typos. 2005-03-01 - More typos fixed. Thanks again to John Yast. 2005-02-25 - Fixed numerous typos pointed out by John Yost. 2005-02-21 - Set Chapter 14 into Reasonably Complete status! This has long been due. We're quickly approaching a "release client" status for the book. At this time, I really need people to carefully read through the book and correct any inconsistancies (like typos or faults in the technical writing). I encourage you if you want to be involved to join the slackbook mailing list here: https://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/mailman/listinfo/slackbook - Corrected my stupid assumptions in chapter6-xorgsetup.html. Thanks to Carlos Corbacho for the heads up and suggested fixes. - Apparently "traffic" has two "f"s in it. :^) Thanks to userlocal.net's mRgOBLIN. - Updates some things in chapter2-online.html, such as adding the officially sanctioned linuxquestions.org Slackware forum. - Removed discussion of joining the slackware-security mailing list in chapter 14 and linked it to the discussion of those mailing lists in chapter 2. 2005-02-20 - Corrected all (I think) of the broken links in book2.html, which has been placed on the front page as the Table of Contents. - Fixed some broken links and removed references to those stupid little summaries in some chapters. - Lots of format fixes in Chapter 14. Still much to do there. 2005-02-19 - Started Chapter 19 and put it in Reasonably Complete status. Wasn't hard. Just removed everything about BigSlack. :^) - Started Chapter 6 (X!) and put it in Reasonably Complete status! Some one's lickin' this job! :^) 2005-02-16 - Finished discussion of Makepkg and explodepkg in chapter 18. Mentioned SlackBuild scripts as well. - Discussed tagfiles briefly. I'm a little weak on this so I'm not yet going to set this chapter to "Reasonably Complete". 2005-02-07 - Set Chapters 15 and 17 to Complete. Haven't received any bug reports for them. :^) A couple of people have volunteered to work on the printing chapter. Hopefully I'll have more info on that within a short time. 2005-02-01 - Chapter 15 is in Reasonably Complete status now. Finished discussion of tar and zip. Chapter 18 should start up soon. I'm going to likely wait to continue work on it for almost a week as I have a vacation coming up and will be offline for some time. If I don't reply to your e-mails in a timely fashion I hope you'll understand. :^) - I'm full of it. I've begun work on Chapter 18. Sue me. - Fixed TOC in Chapter 15. 2005-01-26 - Begun work onf Chapter 15. This shouldn't take too long. 2005-01-20 - Corrected numerous errors such as typos, broken links, and other errata pointed out by Sally Welch 2005-01-12 - Corrected omission of the "L" disk series in chapter3-requirements.html Thanks to Charlie Law for the pointer. 2005-01-01 Happy New Year! - Chapter 17 set to "Reasonably Complete" 2004-12-31 Just in time for New Year's! This should be the last Changelog entry beginning with 2004. :^) - Set chapters 5, 13, and 16 to complete. Don't see any reason besides minor editorial work to continue with them as reasonably complete. 2004-12-03 - Long time since the last update. The Good Book hasn't been as big a priority for me as SlackSec right now. - Merged in Keith Keller's write-up on wireless networking. Thanks Keith! 2004-11-16 - Wow! 9 days since the last update. I've gotta get on the ball! :^) - Received thorough write ups on emacs from Joost Kremers and wifi networking from Keith Keller. Will be putting these in place soon. Thanks guys. - Updated index.html to reflect these changes. 2004-11-7 - Fixed missing link on chapter12.html to chapter11top.html. - Made chapter13 headers match others chapters. - Removed broken link in chapter10 TOC. - Moved vi discussion to chapter 16. - Removed summary from chapter 16 and fixed broken links. - Set chapter 16's status to reasonably complete. - Removed bad link on chapter 18 and set it to Not Yet Begun. 2004-11-6 - Added funny statement about less and more to chapter10more.html - Removed summary from chapter 11. Fixed link to image file. - Fixed links between chapters 11 and 12. - Cleaned up html in chapter 12.html. - Removed info about adding a mail spool for new users made by hand as this is no longer necessary. - Fixed links throughout chapter 12 and dropped the summary. Chapter 12 should be certifiably gold now. - Modified the index.html file to show the current status of each chapter. Changed some attributions. - Massive overhaul of Chapter 13. 2004-11-1 - Corrected HTML typo in chapter10cp.html that stopped the title from displaying. 2004-10-28 - Removed rc.cdrom from chapter 4. - Removed references to deleted summaries in chapters 3 - 9. - Reworked Chapter 10 to clean up HTML code and reduce the number of terribly small pages. - Fixed variable name for /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf in chpater 5. 2004-10-27 - Fixed the front page to point at the right link for chapter 8. :^) - Fixed caption for old "Summary" links to the new chapters they now point at. - Finished HTML cleanup for chapter 8. - Finished prettying up chapter 9. 2004-10-26 - Added a brief mention of GRUB in chapter 7 to let people know that while it is not supported, it will boot Slackware without problems. - Cleaned up html in parts of chapter 8, renamed file to fit naming convention. 2004-10-23 - Clarified HTML throughout Chapter 7. Fixed naming conventions in chapter 7. Clarified dual-booting windows nt and deprecated ancient NTLDR hack. - Cleaned up information concerning dhcp and static addressing in chapter 5. Added information regaurding /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf for configuring multiple nics. - Fixed links and naming for chapter 5. - Expanded talk of Samba and NFS in chapter 5. - Corrected inconsitencies in chapter 5 regaurding network setup changes made by Slackware 10.0 including netconfig and rc.inet1.conf. - Added mention of rc.hotplug for adding network modules. - Expanded talk of DHCP in chapter 5. - Removed DRAFT-0.1 from chapter 5 titles. - Removed extra TOC's in chapter 5 to maintain consistancy. - Removed broken link to the broken links report. :^) - The first five chapters plus the Preface should be good to go now. I forsee no major changes in these chapters before completion of the project. While I've got a few things I wish to double-check in them, these chapters are hereby certified gold and I will not continue to work on them. 2004-10-22 - Added section on the slight differences in compiling a 2.6 kernel to chapter4-kernel.html. 2004-10-21 Decided to document changes to the text here. Going back over the completed chapters from start to finish rather than breaking things up so much. - Added section on GNU in chapter 1 and clarified GNU/Linux. - Cleaned up the HTML in chapter 1. - Clarified the BSD license in chapter 1. - Fixed broken links in chapter 1. Chapter 1 should be devoid of busted links. Please e-mail me if you find any. - Corrected structure and broken links for chapter 2. - Fixed html code throughout chapter 2 and corrected inaccuracies, particularly in chapter2-online.html. - Corrected broken links in chapter 3.