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[bigjohn]

I was just re-reading the "72 Speedups" in LXF72.

This looks very much like an excellent article, but even after 3+ years of meddling with linux distro's (various) I'n still finding many, many terms that I'm unfamiliar with.

It occurred to me that a handy addition to the website would be a little search box, that you can input a term/word/acronym to find out what it means or what it does, possible with a small link to somewhere if theres a better location for an explaination on what something does/how it works (man pages come to mind here).

Afterall, I wouldn't have thought it would take up too many resources if the response to a query was just text - like in a dictionary. We already have databased facilities so is it too much to ask ?????

Sorry if this has already been suggested/considered, but it does seem like a good idea - maybe even in "wiki" type format ?????

regards

John
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[Flea]

Isn't that what the wikipedia is for? You'll probably find anything you want in there. In the unlikely event that you don't, it would be more productive to have the entry added in there instead of in a separate LXF specific wiki that most of the world wouldn't even know exists!

besides, we've had a slow LXF website already, really don't wanna go back there!

Dave.

[linuxgirlie]

I agree, if there is no entry maybe you could write your own or....tell us here and someone will go to wikipedia and wrote one for you, its a brilliant resource and teh only reason why we no-longer pay for encarta.
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[bigjohn]

[evilnick]

hmmm. have you been peeking into our minds?

[Rhakios]

Or indeed, reading the newsletter
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[bigjohn]

I don't understand most of the bloody magazine, so unless the newsletter or the contents of your mind appear as floating word bubbles in the murky depths of a 400 litre diesel tank, then No!
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[M-Saunders]

And here we have it:

http://linuxformat.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Linux_Glossary

As this is based on the original Wiki, some parts may be dated, but most of it is still useful. Now let's flesh it our with new stuff!

M

[bigjohn]

Bonus!

I suppose that entires need to be written in "english", as opposed to doing cut'npaste from man pages written in technonerd !

Well done though!

regards

John

p.s. Oh bugger. That means I'll have to find out how to add things to a wiki, so I can actually be of some "real" help!
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[M-Saunders]

[bigjohn]

Cheers M-Saunders, I'll give it a try when I get a minute or two.

regards

John
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