~sourcemage/tome-rdp

ed0b372f7f47e8a2545d4ad5aec8a72a41714592 — John Harding 17 years ago 63fbe7b
Added section discribing our target audience. Fixed some verbiage
and added some definitions. Obviously, feel free to revert or
further edit.
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

M Intro_to_sourcemage.txt
M Intro_to_sourcemage.txt => Intro_to_sourcemage.txt +12 -5
@@ 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