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author | John Harding | 2007-02-20 20:27:05 -0800 |
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committer | John Harding | 2007-02-20 20:27:05 -0800 |
commit | ed0b372f7f47e8a2545d4ad5aec8a72a41714592 (patch) | |
tree | dbc73cc8de9ba4d566e213d9cf017b4010db0c3b | |
parent | 63fbe7bad94b2cb250713f5c543a9046c3a3823a (diff) |
Added section discribing our target audience. Fixed some verbiage
and added some definitions. Obviously, feel free to revert or
further edit.
-rw-r--r-- | Intro_to_sourcemage.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
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 Administrators. 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 collection of non-free packages 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. For further reading see 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 |