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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Friday 17 October 2008 23:27:44 RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: |
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>> heehee have been wanting to get onboard with gentoo for a while now how |
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>> ironic that the wiki site i was so looking forward to using is down the |
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>> same day my gentoo box is up heehee. |
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> Let's see, how shall I put this? Oh stuff it, might as well be honest. |
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> gentoo-wiki.com is notorious for being up and down more often than you change |
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> your underwear. It's also been compromised at least twice in the last 12 |
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> months. The home page was last updated so long ago I'm no longer sure if it |
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> was still in this millennium. |
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As the fellow who maintains the Bind and Postfix w/PostfixAdmin how-tos |
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on the wiki I take a small amount of umbrage with the above statements. |
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:-) Also my Bind how-to was added to the front page after I updated it |
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in July. |
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I generally try to update the docs with recent packages every six |
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months or so though I am guilty of letting them sit a bit longer. |
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However Gentoo has no official Bind documentation. The official Gentoo |
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Virtual Mail how-to offers about half the functionality, explanation, |
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and troubleshooting info in my doc. Also the Gentoo virtual mail server |
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has remained essentially unchanged in the last six years whereas my doc |
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has continued to change and improve. And while we're being honest my |
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virtual server build kicks the crap out of the official one in just |
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about every way. |
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I won't say that all docs on gentoo-wiki are of this quality or better |
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than the Gentoo docs, but you will be missing out on some genuinely |
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useful information by dismissing the gentoo-wiki out of hand. |
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In regards to the soon to be asked "why not update the Gentoo docs if |
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you're so darn smart" question going through a number of heads. In real |
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life I manage just over 7000 servers as part of a larger group and am |
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directly responsible for a bit over 1500 of them. I can devote an hour |
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or two every couple of months to updating my home Gentoo box and fixing |
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my wiki entries or I can fight with Guide XML for three or four hours |
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and generally produce nothing useful. |
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kashani |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_Setup_a_DNS_Server_with_BIND |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_Virtual_Postfix/Courier_Mail_System_with_PostfixAdmin |
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