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2. Overview Conents

2.1 What is Raven

Raven is an on-line shareware £3 magazine to promote Linux, and help you to do something useful with it.

Here is a manually edited table of contents. One day it will automatically re-use the same typos as the originals.

Raven Issue-1

You want to set up a Linux box, and marvel at the delights of modern technology. To do so you must already be familiar with unix system administration. To learn that you must have a working unix box. Where do you start?

2.2 Issue-1 - "Buying and Building a PC" (Intel 386, 486 or more).

Yes - you need to budget £1500 for the workstation. If you have more, get a better machine, but don't under-estimate other costs. If that is too much for your budget, you should be able to buy a proportion of the components you need for about £800, and get the rest later. You may need assistence from a friend (or work) with a second machine.

2.3 Issue-2 - "Now what's this? Linux User's view"

So you've got Linux running, and want a quick start on various things. Such as? Issue-2 has several things that might be of interest to you. Most of them are available on CDROM, so you can do something, if you haven't got Internet access.

2.4 Issue-3 - "Internet Working"

Issue 3 gives you a 'drop-in and change the values' configuration for a connection to the Internet. It documents all the files you need to setup, by providing a 'live' example of a machine with a modem and an ethernet card.

2.5 Issue-4 - "Upgrade to Linux 2.0 "

You've got to upgrade modules, PPP, and of course recompile the kernel.

2.6 Actual Contents

The above list is outline only. For the real table of contents, go back to the actual index.

2.7 File Layout

Although Raven is a magazine, and magazines are ususally "published once", and never change. Raven is released as previews, and occasionally updated, so each "version" has a version number, such as "-0f", "-0g", "-1a", "-1b".

To allow a site to carry the latest version, and also carry the previous version (in-case I deleted something useful, in the name of progres), all the files have the version number in their direcory path.

The site administrator has to point a symbolic link to the "latest" version, so that you can find them easily, and so that outdated version numbers don't appear in bookmarked URLS.

In practise, the filenames change, and bookmarked URL's get broken, but I hope you don't mind that too much. Especially since the "published" versions appear less frequently.

The first issues of Raven are distributed in the same .tgz file. This is to get you started. Note that postscript files (.dvi actually) may not be in the same file, as they are big. This may change.

        ./Raven/.

                ./SSR01/.  --> ssr01-1b # symbolic link
                ./SSR02/.  --> ssr02-0g # preferred in bookmarks
                ./SSR03/.  --> ssr03-0g # unless version is vital

                ./misc/.                
                        eye_view.gip    # created by xearth
                        gnu_drew.gip    # created by gnuplot + xpaint
                ./ftp/.                 # individually download-able files

                        Raven01-1a.tgz  # the out of date .tgz

                        Raven01-1b.tgz  # the newer .tgz
                        Raven02-1b.tgz  # the newer .tgz
                        Raven03-1b.tgz  # the newer .tgz

                ./ssr01-1a/.            # Issue-01, version "-1a" 
                ./ssr01-1b/.            # Issue-01, version "-1b"

                        the files for issue 1

                ./ssr02-1b/.            # Issue-02, version "-1b"

                        the files for issue 2

                ./ssr03-1b/.            # Issue-03, version "-1b"

                        the files for issue 3
                        ssr03.html      # the index file
                        ssr03_01_intro.html
                        ssr03_02_section_two.html

        you get the idea, it's a form of invisible version control


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