Anaconda documents

[Karsten Wade]

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 11:33, Alexander Rau (work) wrote:

> In order for me to participate the submission process needs to be hassle
> free and hopefully available for a M$ environment.

Well, that's a difficult request; however, if M$ would just release
their source code under a truly free license, then we could make
building Fedora documentation under Windows hassle free. :-) ;-)

If you have access to a Linux box from remote, such as one running at
your home on broadband, you could try this method:

1. If you don't have an SSH client supplied on your Windows machine by
your employer, grab a copy of PuTTY
(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/); this FL/OSS
application has an SSH client, does SFTP, SCP and can support SSH tricks
such as tunneling.

2. Shell into a remote Linux box (such as a Fedora Core install) where
you have the FDP toolchain running.

3. Run your Emacs session as 'emacs -nw'; if you run it in a screen
session, you provide yourself good protection against network or Windows
problems messing up your work (see the screen manual page for more
information).

The best things about this method?

* Your work is protected from any number of problems which are more
likely to occur than a Fedora box going down -- network problems, power
outages, Windows BSOD, etc.

* The setup is considerably easier than getting cygwin, Emacs, cvs and
ssh running under Win32.

* You are safely doing your personal volunteer work on a remote system
under your control, and not belonging to your employer.  Then they have
a harder time, for example, claiming copyright over anything you write
while "on the clock".

Of course, IANAL, so don't take this as advice on how to work on
personal projects while on your employer's time. ^o_O^

- Karsten
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