Bug 77757

Summary: link update
Product: Documentation Reporter: Conall O'Brien <conallob=freebsd>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Tom Rhodes <trhodes>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
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Description Conall O'Brien 2005-02-20 04:40:18 UTC 
	
	Update of link to Linux intro documentation. Existing link pointing to
	stale document last updated in 1997-1998.

Fix: Patch below updates link to Linux Documentation Project's Intro Guide
Comment 1 Simon L. B. Nielsen freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-02-20 08:52:05 UTC 
On 2005.02.20 04:31:16 +0000, Conall O'Brien wrote:
> 
> 	Update of link to Linux intro documentation. Existing link pointing to
> 	stale document last updated in 1997-1998.
> >Fix:
> 
> Patch below updates link to Linux Documentation Project's Intro Guide
> 
> --- newbies.sgml.old    Sun Feb 20 04:21:31 2005
> +++ newbies.sgml        Sun Feb 20 04:22:03 2005
> @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
>  
>      <li><p>There is an easy and informative section on
>        using the X Window System in the Linux
> -      <a href="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/LDP/users-guide">Users' Guide</a>.
> +      <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/">Users' Guide</a>.


As far as I can see there is nothing about X11 in the new document?
So it doesn't seem like a good replacement to me, perhaps there is a
better replacement?

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
Comment 2 Conall O'Brien 2005-02-20 15:06:15 UTC 
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 09:52:05AM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

> As far as I can see there is nothing about X11 in the new document?
> So it doesn't seem like a good replacement to me, perhaps there is a
> better replacement?

Ack! Forgot it was for details of X11 in Linux.


Perhaps ESR's XFree86-HOWTO from 2001 is a better choice...


--- newbies.sgml.old    Sun Feb 20 04:21:31 2005
+++ newbies.sgml        Sun Feb 20 15:02:15 2005
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
 
     <li><p>There is an easy and informative section on
       using the X Window System in the Linux
-      <a
       href="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/LDP/users-guide">Users'
Guide</a>.
+      <a
href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO/index.html">Users'
Guide</a>.
       Interesting material will be found elsewhere in that document
too, but
       remember that Linux does not always work exactly the same as
FreeBSD.</p></li>

-- 

Regards,

Conall O'Brien

Network Administrator
School Of Mathematics
University Of Dublin, Trinity College
Comment 3 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-02-24 00:42:25 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I've updated the URL, thanks for the submission.
Comment 4 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-02-24 00:42:25 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes

Over to me.