LOL! TLDP is even worse for out of date and obsolete documentation!Bill Cosby wrote:Gentoo wiki is among the best wikis, that's because it actually is the most distro independent.
However, I always thought, that a common source of knowledge for Linux would be good, and there actually is such an effort, namely The Linux Documentation Project, it would be coold if both would actually merge their knowledge to have it all more centralized, and the TLDP guys seem to have good servers
http://gentoo-{wiki,portage}.com doesnt work for me?
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You do realize that if you "wish" that something was, you could do it yourself? If you spent a little bit of time working on either the Gentoo Wiki or TLDP, that that could go a long way? When asked for volunteers for an official Gentoo Wiki, it should be people like you who should volunteer as a maintainer. This is a community where if you want something done you can go out and do it yourself. You may not have the expertise in certain areas, but there are plenty of people here who can compliment your strengths and help on any given project.
The best place to start would be consulting with the owners of Gentoo-Wiki and finding out how you can help in making it more stable. Or, you can start updating out of date pages yourself. What if everytime somebody said to themselves "Well. instead of doing abc, it worked for me to do it xyz and this is the reason. Damn. They should really update that", they updated the page with an annotation instead of walking away? As soon as you do that, you are part of the problem. Be a part of the solution.
Don't rely on others to it for you. If it's important to you, find out what you can do to change it. In time, others will follow. (In this case, there are many people behind you already).
The best place to start would be consulting with the owners of Gentoo-Wiki and finding out how you can help in making it more stable. Or, you can start updating out of date pages yourself. What if everytime somebody said to themselves "Well. instead of doing abc, it worked for me to do it xyz and this is the reason. Damn. They should really update that", they updated the page with an annotation instead of walking away? As soon as you do that, you are part of the problem. Be a part of the solution.
Don't rely on others to it for you. If it's important to you, find out what you can do to change it. In time, others will follow. (In this case, there are many people behind you already).
Why? There's many distros out there that do their own thing. That would just make it completely confusing.Bill Cosby wrote:That wasn't my point, it simply would be good to have a distro independent wiki, and tldp has good servers
Ex. Redhat != Gentoo. Sure, it says Linux at the end, but that doesn't mean they put things in the same spot or do things the same.
..and having good servers doesn't matter.. Anyone can put their site at a hosting center and have "Good Servers". If they have their own independent server, then they can tweak and modify it however they want.. But that takes time and patience. Although, in the end, everything looks really nice.
gentoo-wiki unavailable ?
don't know where to post this. anyone can access gentoo-wiki.org ? it seems down, for about 2 or 3 hours now.
Yeah, it is down at the moment. This sometimes happens (the same with gentoo-portage.com). Just wait some time, I'm sure it'll be back soon.
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merged some posts... it does appear gentoo-portage/wiki is down again.
banned from #gentoo since sept 2017Neddyseagoon wrote:The problem with leaving is that you can only do it once and it reduces your influence.
*selfquoting*
DrAgOnTuX wrote:as long as you can't reach the "unofficial" wiki, try google cache:
e.g. http://www.google.com/search?strip=1&q= ... _-_Paludis[/i]
as long as you don't know the url, you'll have to wait
even if wiki is not the "official" way of doing things, it contains crucial parts, configurations (even if out of date or incomplete) that can't be found anywhere else. most of the time, even incomplete, they explain useful things to gentooers that simply gives you some more idea on how to fix your problem.
without that i think i wouldn't use that much cutting edge tools gentoo provides to me.
without that i think i wouldn't use that much cutting edge tools gentoo provides to me.
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Hey.. been a while since i posted on the forums.
Yeah sorry for all the down time over the last month or so. The wiki is now moved to a new dual quad Xeon server for both gentoo-wiki.com and gentoo-portage.com
should give me the uptime i used to have. 6 months without downtime
also most of the downtime previous to this was because of apache crashing or locking up the server. heh. this new one shouldn't have that problem as the processes are properly jailed.
also for future reference if anyone needs to get ahold of me mikevalstar@gmail.com
Yeah sorry for all the down time over the last month or so. The wiki is now moved to a new dual quad Xeon server for both gentoo-wiki.com and gentoo-portage.com
should give me the uptime i used to have. 6 months without downtime
also most of the downtime previous to this was because of apache crashing or locking up the server. heh. this new one shouldn't have that problem as the processes are properly jailed.
also for future reference if anyone needs to get ahold of me mikevalstar@gmail.com
Mike, I e-mailed you a couple days ago. I still have an IP getting filtered by your router/firewall rules for some reason. Did you get my e-mail?
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Any one able to get to it? I get this squid error.
At first I though something was wrong with squid on my server. My University has a Windows Terminal Server that you can use to run programs that the University has licenses for like Matlab. I used IE on that server and got the same message.ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://gentoo-wiki.com/
The following error was encountered:
Unable to forward this request at this time.
This request could not be forwarded to the origin server or to any parent caches. The most likely cause for this error is that:
The cache administrator does not allow this cache to make direct connections to origin servers, and
All configured parent caches are currently unreachable.
Your cache administrator is root.
Generated Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:19:21 GMT by none (squid/3.0.STABLE1)
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Well it's up now. It was down at 4 am as well.saibot wrote:works fine for me!jdmulloy wrote:Any one able to get to it? I get this squid error.
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why gentoo-wiki is down?
pppf...i cant live without gentoo-wiki, en its down for hrs today....whats up guys with that?.. 
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