This is the changelog of modifications I have made to the FAQ. Please see the old changelog for modifications made by the previous maintainer of this FAQ.

Oct 6, 2002

• Added a section with short answers to complicated issues here.
• Modified the splash screen to include a link to the linux-info mailinglist and the forum.

Aug 25, 2002

• Added a splash screen at many's request. As I didn't know what to put it, I also added datestamps to each faq entry so I can present a list of recently changed sections there.
• Added a "messages" section for stuff we'd like people to see upfront. Lessee how that works out.

Jun 30, 2002

• New section with recommended reading here
• Some renumbering to keep the ordering straight

Jun 23, 2002

• New section on spoonfeeding here.
• More code cleanups, and various little tidbits were edited along the way
• Edited the section on tar to include proper syntax for bzip2'ed tarballs
• Rewrote the section on kernel compiles.
• Added a paragraph on NTFS access in this section
• Added a reference to Partition Magic in here
• Deactivated some irrlevant sections
• Edited this section to reflect reality.
• Fixed heaps of links, mainly the ones referring to various old locations of the LDP. I wish they stopped changing location every 6 months!

Jun 21, 2002

• Added a link to the Clueless Newbie FAQ in the /etc section.

Jun 14, 2002

Various updates have been done between this and the last entry. Not much content has been added or updated, but in the backend there have been some changes. All content is now kept in a postgres database, with a webfrontend for administration. There have been a couple of changes in the hosting area, etc. Not much of interrest, really. A few things regarding the faq itself:

• Restructured the changelog, removed all layout tags, cleaned up the html
• Changed link in Hall of Lame to http://reconfig.net/~silsor/lame.html
• Edited reference to romanian #linux channels as requested by romanians
• Added a link to linmodems to the winmodems page
• Updated the "Be polite to dumb terminals" rule to reflect a better way to teach BitchX the ways to polite IRC
• Added a link to the Linux Security Administrator Guide
• Updated the firewalling section
• Added AMES to the /etc section
• Added a section on getting scroll mice to work in X
• Added some comments on where to get slackware iso images...why anyone would want to is beyond me though.
• Changed the section on where to get a Debian ISO image to a generic section on where to get debian images.
• Removes the "Where can I download RedHat 6.0 ISO images" and the "How to burn a RedHat image to CD" below that. I want to keep this less specific. A section on how to toast CDs is in the making.

Dec 11, 2001

• Added reference to #linuxhelp and their website
• Modified "Stay on topic", added a couple of references to other channels
• Modified "Language", included #rolinux, #linux.de, #linux.nl and #linux.se.
• Added a comment to "Don't ask for shells"
• Added UnLinux to "Don't Run Bots on #Linux"
• Added domain bans to the "Kicks in #linux" section
• Added Comic chat to the list of "How to get kicked out of #linux" reasons
• Added http://www.tuxedo.org/ esr/faqs/smart-questions.html to "Getting help on #linux"
• Fixed URL in the linux-laptops section, removed the snafu link (dead)
• Restructured "Who should use linux", added a link to http://www.linux.org, merged "who should not use linux" and the link to whynotlinux.html
• Various other tidbits

  Something is b0rk with latex2html's output...faq editing put on hold for a bit, time to put this in a decent format.

Dec 10, 2001

• Got a slightly updated version out the door....my first!
• Replaced some obseleted links
• Added irssi to the IRC clients section
• replaced strix's email address with mine

Dec 8, 2001

• Took over this faq from strix. Thanks strix!

Jun 10

• Removed text only version
• Added lame nicks which mysteriously disappeared at some

Jan 17

• Added a link to Debian's ISO server.
• Fixed an error concerning bold. I am disappointed that no-one complained about it being wrong!
• Added how to copy+paste
• Added a new link to the firewall stuff

Jan 2

It has been a busy end of year.

• Added section on kicking a user off your machine
• Added a hyperlink to the section on how to change X's resolution.

Oct 9

• Added section on using FIPS to resize FAT volumes

Sep 25

• Added section concerning manual fsck.
• Corrected typo in the format_nick_comp line in the channel rules
• Added some URLs to windows ext2fs drivers
• Moved the reference to SVGATextMode into the section on changing console screen resolution
• Added new section Hall of Lame to #linux humorlinux-humor
• Added reference to The SIS6326 Mini-HOWTO
• Added section on mail relays

Aug 22

• Added european mirror to FAQ list. Thanks to wuzzah for hosting this.

Aug 16

• Added How to run a programme, and added links to it from several other places

Aug 15

• Corrected a link in burn-cd
• Added a link to another source of redhat iso images to rhiso

Aug 14

• Added subsection concerning formatting floppy discs.
• Made a few changes to a number of miscellenious sections (rpm, use of bold, WINE + a few others)

Aug 10

• Added subsection concerning the use of on Linux on laptops
• Added subsection concerning mounting SMB shares from windows boxes.
• Modified the entry concerning /msg'ing to suggest that some people may not *want* to be /msg'd.

Jul 17

• Added subsection What is a mount point?
• Added a user's remarks about VMware
• Added subsection How are users create?

Jul 15

• Added ``Can I read ext2 partitions from Windows?''

July 1

• Updated section on winmodems and added mention of a Howto for burning Redhat CDROMs.

June 16

• Changed nirc address

June 15

• Fixed a few cosmetic inconsistencies.
• Added a section, ``How big should my swap be?'' which points to the following question, ``How should I partition my hard drive?

June 3

• Re-organised FAQ structure. Each question has been put into one of about 10 sections that roughly approximates the nature of the question. Hopefully, this should make finding specific questions more straight forward than ploughing through 50 odd unrelated questions.

May 30

• Added Is my XYZ video card supported in linux? - thanks Shadur!

May 20

• Changed the URL of Steel's mirror, at Steel's request.

May 17

• Added tarball of entire site, an RPM is to follow.

May 2

• Found a better DVI to plain text converter from CTAN called ``dvi2tty''. Does a better job than prescript, so there it is.

May 1

• Added new sections concerning FTP daemons: How do I restrict an FTP user to a particular directory tree? and How do I set up an FTP only account?
• Added sections, When is the next version of the kernel going to be released? and its cousine When is xyz version abc coming out?
• Added section, How do I edit a file?

Apr 30

• Added postscript and textual versions of the FAQ. Added links to prescript and the NZDL (see the introduction).

Late April

Transcribed the FAQ into latex. Made a number of modifications and corrections to the FAQ too numerous to list complete. Things I can think of:

• Added section, How to get kicked out of #linux
• Added a section on winmodems
• Rewrote/modified/updated the sections concerning: distributions, VMware, setting system clock, applying patches, recompiling the kernel, setting up X and probably several others.
• Enriched usage of typeface and external links in some place