Re:Linux Manual (Score 1)

The real problme behind all of this is that while Linus programming, hacking, whatever is fun, it is very little fun to write the kind of underlying step by step instructions for people who have very little idea of what they're doing. It's even less fun doing it for free. For all the advantages Linux's flexibility has, the truth is that the various installation methods make it very hard to document, particularly when the installation routines change every several months (particularly in the case of Caldera and RH, it seems). If one can say anything good about M$ (hard as it may be), it's that the standardization made it very easy to document--and document any many different levels, including newbie, power user, expert, etc. My predication is that one distribution will emerge as the one for newbies. (It wouldn't surprise me if it were Mandrake due to it's distribution in stores, but who knows?) This distrib's Web site would become the place to go for newbies--for that distribution. My challenge to the new Linux companies is to make their documentation the way they distinguish themselves--even though the docs are getting better all the time.