I spent a few hours last night (12/1/2018) re-writing the ToriOS manual in LaTeX using Overleaf. This is and important step forward. ToriOS is now based purely on Debian, due to the continuing support for older systems. This has gone well. Overleaf allows projects to be downloaded the project (zip file) and the pdf…
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ToriOS Manual Update 6
ToriOS Manual Update 6 ToriOS manual is stored on my Github repository, as always the team are looking for LaTeX \ LyX hackers to help. Please see the ToriOS website for information on contacting the team. Minor update made today : 13/3/2018. Added detailed information for installing using the OBI installer , which is…
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ToriOS Manual Update 4 ToriOS manual is stored on my Github repository, as always the team are looking for LaTeX \ LyX hackers to help. Please see the ToriOS website for information on contacting the team. Minor update made today : 30/1/2018. Mainly in the Install /download section. ToriOS Manual on Github Git clone…
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ToriOS Testing 2018.1 ToriOS is a GNU/Linux Operating System built for very old computers (NON PAE) and for those who are interested and brave enough to build their own system the way they like from a fully working base with GUI and minimal installed packages by default. http://torios.top/ Latest testing iso available. Taken from…
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If you have been following me for a while you will know I am involved with several FOSS projects. One of which is ToriOS, a GNU / Linux based light weight operating system. As part of this I am writing the documentation, with help from a few other people. Sam Klein has taken over…
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Work on the ToriOS manual seems to be progressing nicely, I am at present working on a section concerning the JWM settings manager for the JWM desktop which ToriOS uses. For this purpose I had created a folder within the manual structure for this. However this was getting rather messy, so I decided to…
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Today, I took a big step forward in the Development of the manual for the ToriOS operating system. Last week I added 2 tables of links to resources mentioned in the manual. Today these tables were replaced with a proper bibliography, from which resources cited within the manual are listed. So for example, early on…
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One of the important things about software development is something that is sometimes overlooked, good quality and upto date documentation. As documentation lead for the ToriOS operating system is it my task to help develop the offline documentation. For this I am using LaTeX which produces professional out put and is actually easier to…
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For those of you who are following my blog / twitter feed you will know that I am involved as Documentation lead of the Torios project. Over the past weekend I made a big stride in this. Added the screenshot for the Jwm window manager settings manager Added a section on testing and included some…
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Spent last night doing more work on ToriOS documentation, started on a glossary of terms which may / may not make it in to the final manual. But I am pressing on with this.
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