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Is Linux Documentation Lacking? 769

eldavojohn writes "A number of blog posts are surfacing that are calling out the helpful open source community on their documentation. No, not the documentation for the highly skilled technical people, but the documentation from beginner to apprentice. A two-part series by Carla Schroeder lists bad documentation as 'Linux Bug #1' and advises users to use Google as the documentation. We've discussed before some of open source's documentation being out of date. Is it really as bad as these blogs paint it? Has it come down to using Google before a man page?"

Comment Kawa IDE Pro (Score 1) 679

I am currently a college student learning how to program Java. My professor introduced me to two programs which I use regularly. The first, is an IDE named Kawa, made by Macromedia who, as of Oct. 31, 2001, isn't selling it anymore. The other is a standard text editor called WinEdit. I prefer Kawa and suggest you try it(if you can get your hands on it), because of its usability. You have only to set the classpath once, and if you ever need to change it(for various reasons, one may need to), there is a really great user interface which aids you.

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