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linux (unix) programming
I would like to check out some projects we could try to add the 'jewish
ingenuity' to the linux community.
1. documentation. There are various aspects that lack descent
documentation in the unix (and linux) world. i'm talking about free
documents. linux has a lot of system installation documents, and on-line
manuals, but i think it does not have programmers manuals (perhaps except
the kernel hackers guide). i once wrote a document about
programming client/server applications with sockets on linux (or unix in
general) including example programs. it sucks in two ways:
1. my english. i've read it again lately, and it bothered even me.
2. it's incompleteness.
(it uses nroff basic macros - written by hand). i'd be willing to supply
this document (it's about 20 printer pages long + a few programs) to
anyone who things such documents will benefit the 'community' and who'se
willing (and able) to work on my english. furthermore, i'd be happy to
find some steady companionship, so we could write similar documents about
issues like "using signals under linux/unix", "interprocess
communications under linux/unix", etc. i know there are books about these
matters, but why not make public domain documents that will help people
get started without having to pay so much ? there are various available
documents about various subjects. lets try to make something more
complete. who wants to join ?
2. If you remember, at the one before last linux IL meeting (#2?), i
tried to demonstrate a graphical user interface for C programming written
in tcl/tk. due to a bug in the demonstration, i couldn't show too much of
it. i would assume similar applications (please don't just say that lucid
emacs is a ready programmers environment) would make linux more
attractive to the 'community'. so we might want to develope various small
utilities and try to push them into being part of the standard linux
distributions - linux seems still weak in this area, or work on one large
project in this area (hmm, anyone wanna help working on this development
environment?)
guy