From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19816 invoked by alias); 7 Oct 2002 17:28:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19802 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2002 17:28:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca) (24.71.223.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Oct 2002 17:28:54 -0000 Received: from pd5mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.144]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H3M00IKPGJXLS@l-daemon> for insight@sources.redhat.com; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:28:45 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml10so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.80]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H3M0091YGJWTJ@l-daemon> for insight@sources.redhat.com; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:28:44 -0600 (MDT) Received: from h24-65-17-9.gv.shawcable.net (h24-65-17-9.gv.shawcable.net [24.65.17.9]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H3M00BSZGJW78@l-daemon> for insight@sources.redhat.com; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:28:44 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 10:28:00 -0000 From: "Barbara E. Irwin" Subject: The GPL'd database for Loads of Linux Links now includes http://sources.redhat.com/insight/ X-X-Sender: barbara@starling.mylan.home To: insight@sources.redhat.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-SW-Source: 2002-q4/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 I've recently included the Insight Homepage on the Loads of Linux Links project website, which can be found here: http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/index.html Complete details of this project can be found below. Thanks for the link! Barbara ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Loads of Linux Links (LoLL)--Version 1.0.1 Released WHAT: GPLed database and software to generate a website with 3000+ subject-classified and searchable Linux links for all levels of Linux users. WHERE: Loads of Linux Links (LoLL) home page (http://loll.sourceforge.net); project page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/loll); file release area (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42381); CVS repository (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=42381), mailing list (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/loll-general), and the generated website (http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links) which is the place to do your Linux searching! WHY: Provides convenient access to information needed by all levels of Linux users. HOW: LoLL GPLed software and data (scripts, configuration files, and a bookmark file that contains the basic link information), are used in combination with bk2site (http://bk2site.sourceforge.net) to generate the Loads of Linux Links website (http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links). WHO: Andrew Willard (willychilly@users.sourceforge.net) and Barbara E. Irwin (beirwin@users.sourceforge.net). The purpose of the Loads of Linux Links project is to collect, organise, classify and maintain important URLs about Linux and the Open Source movement for all levels of Linux users. The LoLL project now has 3000+ links which are updated regularly. What's New in Version 1.0.1 *Deleted invalid and out-of-date links. This database maintenance is time consuming (even though we use htcheck to find all links where there might be problems), but we feel this effort is an important part of LoLL's mission to make accessible nothing but the highest-quality Linux information. *Added many links. These far outweighed the deletions so our net number of links has actually gone up by 300! *Added a python script to generate a nicely formatted list of our category hierarchies. *Category renaming and reorganization. This is part of an on-going effort to make our classification of links as useful as possible to our users. *A number of category renamings. *Several minor category reorganizations. *Reorganization of the Distributions category. *Added the following sub-categories: Desktop, Embedded, Meta Sites, Mini, and Special Purpose. We link only to the more important distributions and depend on the meta sites to link to a more complete list of Linux distributions. *Reorganization of the Documentation category. *Added the following sub-categories: FAQs, Mailing Lists, Internationalization, and Publications. Note that documentation links tend to appear twice in LoLL; once in a Documentation sub-category and once in the applicable subject category. *Added Meta Sites sub-category to the following categories: Distributions, Documentation--HOWTOs, Games, and Security and Privacy. *Created a LoLL mailing list. In the last three months there has been so much interest in this project (25,000 web hits and 200 downloads) we felt it was time to create a mailing list for interested users. To subscribe see http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/loll-general. This project originally began as a service for the Victoria Linux Users' Group (VLUG, http://vlug.org) but in the true spirit of Linux, we decided to share this valuable resource with the wider Linux community by putting the Loads of Linux Links project on SourceForge. Like Linux, this is a work in progress so stay tuned here on the mailing list for futher update announcements concerning additional links and revised subject categories. Also, like Linux, no one owns this project -- it's GPLed so the project can never be hijacked by proprietary interests! The current contributors to the project are Andrew Willard, past president of VLUG with extensive experience with Linux hardware and software; Barbara E. Irwin, current vice-president of VLUG with 30 years experience as a professional librarian; and, most importantly, users of LoLL who submit new or changed Linux-related URL's for the project with the assurance that their contribution will remain under the GPL forever. Resources The generated LoLL website (http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links) which is normally updated on a daily basis. This is the place to do your Linux searching! LoLL home page (http://loll.sourceforge.net). LoLL project page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/loll). LoLL file release area (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42381) which is normally updated several times per year. LoLL CVS repository (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=42381) which is normally updated on a daily basis. This is the place to obtain the latest bookmarks.html file that is used to generate our website. LoLL mailing list (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/loll-general) VLUG (http://vlug.org) -- the sponsor for the initial effort on this project. Thank You! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Barbara Irwin beirwin@shaw.ca Victoria, B.C. Canada The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.