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Please explain why we link to a separate download for .pdfs when they are available at FLOSS Manuals? --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 10:49, 5 December 2011 (EST)
 
Please explain why we link to a separate download for .pdfs when they are available at FLOSS Manuals? --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 10:49, 5 December 2011 (EST)
 
I archived them a while ago when the web page for floss manuals was not working. (Spare local location of .pdf's) [[User:Satellit| satellit_]] 9:57, 5 December 2011 (PST)
 
I archived them a while ago when the web page for floss manuals was not working. (Spare local location of .pdf's) [[User:Satellit| satellit_]] 9:57, 5 December 2011 (PST)
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals
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http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals
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: OK. I suggest we treat it as a spare location rather than the preferred location, because, unless the backup is a mirror automatically tracking FM changes, it is a fragile storage arrangement. Bernie can advise on this.
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: It might be handy to have a Floss Manuals in our wiki, which could provided a custome list of links to their .pdfs (along with a footnote about the backup location). For example,
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:* [http://en.flossmanuals.net/_booki/sugar/sugar.pdf Sugar]
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:* [http://en.flossmanuals.net/_booki/terminal/terminal.pdf Terminal Activity]
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:* et cetera
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:: --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 14:49, 5 December 2011 (EST)

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FLOSS Manuals

Please explain why we link to a separate download for .pdfs when they are available at FLOSS Manuals? --FGrose 10:49, 5 December 2011 (EST) I archived them a while ago when the web page for floss manuals was not working. (Spare local location of .pdf's) satellit_ 9:57, 5 December 2011 (PST) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Floss_Manuals

OK. I suggest we treat it as a spare location rather than the preferred location, because, unless the backup is a mirror automatically tracking FM changes, it is a fragile storage arrangement. Bernie can advise on this.
It might be handy to have a Floss Manuals in our wiki, which could provided a custome list of links to their .pdfs (along with a footnote about the backup location). For example,
--FGrose 14:49, 5 December 2011 (EST)