I've just been flicking through the new documentation that's going to ship with ubuntu lucid and it's excellent - albeit very much aimed at users.<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 March 2010 11:44, James Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@jwm-art.net">james@jwm-art.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Come to think of it, when I first started using Linux, the HOWTO's from<br>
the Linux Documentation Project (which were available as Debian packages<br>
on the install cds) were really helpful (especially as I did not have<br>
web-access back then).<br>
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However for the past few years when I've been searching for documentation<br>
for this or that, and have come across a HOWTO, they have been woefully<br>
out of date. Perhaps the HOWTO's were comparable with Microsoft Help (as I<br>
remember it) which was often pretty useless too.<br>
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A quick look at <a href="http://tldp.org/sorted_howtos_full.html" target="_blank">http://tldp.org/sorted_howtos_full.html</a> shows a minority<br>
are still being updated, or have been newly added.<br>
<br>
Perhaps part of the problem arises from people's preference for blogs,<br>
forums, making videos, and social networking. Which means you have to know<br>
where to look for documentation, and know the signs of what is good and<br>
bad documentation, which all comes down to experience.<br>
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James.<br>
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