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| -rw-r--r-- | src/admin/3_packages.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/admin/4_services.xml | 8 |
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diff --git a/src/admin/1_intro.xml b/src/admin/1_intro.xml index 2029356..bbcf533 100644 --- a/src/admin/1_intro.xml +++ b/src/admin/1_intro.xml @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ <entry>Alpine Linux</entry> <entry>Release every 6 months; support for 2 years</entry> <entry>All libre licenses allowed</entry> - <entry>Limited</entry> + <entry>Non-libre firmware in core repositories</entry> <entry>APK</entry> </row> <row> @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ </section> <section> <title>Support for many platforms</title> - <para>Adélie Linux supports many different hardware platforms, allowing you to truly use your hardware your way. All Adélie Linux packages are tested on all tier 1 architectures before being released. From your dusty old Intel x86 notebook, to your POWER workstation, to your ARM tablet, you can ensure you are getting the most from your computers by using Adélie Linux on them.</para> + <para>Adélie Linux supports many different hardware platforms, allowing you to truly use your hardware your way. All Adélie Linux packages are tested on all tier 1 architectures before being released. From your PowerPC/POWER workstation, to your dusty old Intel x86 notebook, to your ARM 64 tablet, you can ensure you are getting the most from your computers by using Adélie Linux on them.</para> </section> </section> <section> diff --git a/src/admin/3_packages.xml b/src/admin/3_packages.xml index eac46a7..3cdd3e2 100644 --- a/src/admin/3_packages.xml +++ b/src/admin/3_packages.xml @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ <section> <title>What is a "package"?</title> <para>All software in Adélie Linux is provided to you in the form of <firstterm>packages</firstterm>. A "software package" is a single distribution of computer software that fulfils a purpose. For example, AbiWord, a word processor, is provided in the "abiword" package. When you want to install or uninstall software from your computer, you add (to install) or delete (to uninstall) packages.</para> - <para>Some packages have what are termed <firstterm>subpackages</firstterm>, which provide translations of the software, its documentation, or related accessories.</para> - <para>There are also <firstterm>meta packages</firstterm>, which provide no software themselves, but refer to a collective, related group of software. For instance, the <package>kde-games</package> package allows you to quickly install or uninstall the entire set of KDE Games.</para> + <para>Some packages have what are termed <firstterm>subpackages</firstterm>, which can provide related files such as translations of the software, documentation, or accessories.</para> + <para>There are also <firstterm>metapackages</firstterm>, which provide no software themselves, but refer to a collective, related group of software. For instance, the <package>kde-games</package> metapackage allows you to quickly install or uninstall the entire set of KDE Games.</para> </section> <section> <title>An introduction to APK</title> diff --git a/src/admin/4_services.xml b/src/admin/4_services.xml index 4f2ead8..7be2602 100644 --- a/src/admin/4_services.xml +++ b/src/admin/4_services.xml @@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ <note><title>Note</title><para>For the service management section of this chapter, an OpenRC installation is assumed. Other process management systems, including the s6 supervision suite, are not yet discussed in this documentation.</para></note> <section id="svc_mgmt_rc"> <title>Services</title> - <para>A <firstterm>service</firstterm>, also called a <firstterm>daemon</firstterm> or <firstterm>server process</firstterm>, is a long-running process that provides a function for your computer, or for others on your network. A service may be a web server, print spooler, a screen resource manager, or any other useful process. There are a number of high-quality services packaged and available for you to install on your Adélie Linux system. Once you install one (or more), you will need to configure and enable them. You can then start, restart, stop, or view the status of any service on your system. In this section, we will use the <package>OpenSSH</package> remote shell service in our examples. OpenSSH allows you to connect to your computer using your login name and password, and run commands on it from another computer.</para> + <para>A <firstterm>service</firstterm>, also called a <firstterm>daemon</firstterm> or <firstterm>server process</firstterm>, is a long-running process that provides a function for your computer, or for others on your network. A service may be a web server, print spooler, a screen resource manager, or any other useful process. There are a number of high-quality services packaged and available for you to install on your Adélie Linux system. Once you install one (or more), you will need to configure and enable them. You can then start, restart, stop, or view the status of any service on your system. In this section, we will use the <package>OpenSSH</package> remote shell service in our examples. OpenSSH allows you to remotely connect to your computer from another computer using your login name and password, and run commands on it from another computer.</para> <section> <title>Installing a service</title> - <para>Refer to <xref linkend="packages"/> for detailed information about installing packages. When you install the <package>openssh</package> package using <command>apk add openssh</command>, you may notice that APK automatically installs <package>openssh-openrc</package> for you. Services packaged by Adélie Linux always include -openrc subpackages which allow you to quickly and easily bring up new services on your systems.</para> + <para>Refer to <xref linkend="packages"/> for detailed information about installing packages. When you install the <package>openssh</package> package using <command>apk add openssh</command>, you may notice that APK automatically installs the <package>openssh-openrc</package> package for you. Services packaged by Adélie Linux always include -openrc subpackages which allow you to quickly and easily bring up new services on your systems.</para> + <para>All available services are in the <filename class="directory">/etc/init.d</filename> directory; you may list the contents of this directory to determine what services are available on your computer.</para> </section> <section id="enable_disable_rc"> <title>Enabling and disabling services</title> @@ -28,10 +29,11 @@ </section> <section> <title>Scheduling a process to run later</title> + <warning><title>Not Yet Written</title><para>This section has not yet been written.</para></warning> <para>You may wish to run a command at a specific time. Therefore, we should describe <command>at</command> here some day.</para> </section> <section> <title>Scheduling a process to run periodically</title> - <para>... explain cron ...</para> + <warning><title>Not Yet Written</title><para>This section has not yet been written.</para></warning> </section> </chapter> |