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Re:Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages by dredmorbius on Thursday February 29, 2024 @10:18PM (#39558186)
There's some precedent for this. Debian used to provide access to the now-defunct Linux Gazette, and still offers numerous informational packages (package docs, manpages, info pages, RFCs, Linux HOWTOs, and more), all of which can be served locally through the dww package, "Read all on-line documentation with a WWW browser":

<https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/dwww>

(Joerg Jaspert was the former maintainer of Linux Gazette packages: <https://people.debian.org/~joerg/> (2002).)

This remains to me one of the best examples of integrating information delivery and documentation on an operating system I've ever encountered. Notably, it makes both manual and info documents more useful and usable than their traditional terminal-based interfaces.

There are Debian-associated blogs (Debian Planet), though I don't believe that was ever packaged for Debian itself.

Frankly, RSS is probably a better option for blog subscription.

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Re:Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages by anthk on Friday March 01, 2024 @04:40AM (#39560198)
You could read LG without dwww just fine by just pointing the file:/// path.

I remember getting all of those with the Debian Sarge DVD's, good stuff, among the Anarchist Faq, the 'Derivations' math book, and tons offline documentation when I didn't have internet at home.

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Re:Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages by dredmorbius on Friday March 01, 2024 @05:38AM (#39560505)
dwww need not be limited to localhost access, meaning that a single Debian system can serve docs to others (LAN, intranet, public Internet, ...).

Of course, all of the documentation that's exposed via dwww is accessible on that host's filesystem. But dwww also provides a few additional affordances: Web-formatted output, a directory of installed documentation (organised by source / type), and (if you have swish++ installed), full-text search.

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