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[rb]

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...

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.

rb


On 25/04/07, DreamIsDead <dreamisdead0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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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