Personally, I think that what is needed by most users is simply a crib sheet or cheat sheet of the "most likely" commands. These can be expanded into cookbooks for more in-depth stuff...<br><br>I laminated up some double-sided sheets based loosely around the "one page linux manual" but tweaked to suite SuSE for some users at work and they seemed to go down well. There's also a Debian reference card which can be found on the net - kind of like the kind of thing DEC and Sun used to provide as desktop references.
<br><br>rb<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 25/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">DreamIsDead</b> <<a href="mailto:dreamisdead0@gmail.com">dreamisdead0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was thinking it could be good to have a collection of plain english man pages for commonly used commands. These wouldn't need to include every option and feature available, just basic information and without paragraphs of background information and history on whatever you are planning to do.
<br><br>For example trying to work out how to create a zip archive for the first time seems pretty complicated just from reading through the man page, and most users aren't going to need information about operating on certain files from the archive depending on their date of creation. So giving a small, clear, amount of information, covering the operations most people will want to preform on basic, useful commands probably wouldn't involve too much work.
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