On 01/24/2011 06:38 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 01/24/2011 05:18 PM, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: >> Catalog of online Linux documentation >> >> ; Summary: Catalog of online Linux documentation >> >> ; Proposer: Constantine Shulyupin >> >> == Description == >> >> Rob Landley in his article "Where Linux Kernel Documentation Hides", >> wrote in 2008: > ... >> End quote. > > Another question that got raised during the Q&A and which I didn't > manage to competently answer during the talk: > > "Why not just use a Wiki"? > > Wikis are great ways of accumulating a slush pile, but they suck at > indexing content. How do you find anything on wikipedia? Via Google. > Wikipedia is cross-linked out the wazoo but it hasn't even got > alphabetical topic browsing like a print encyclopedia if you wanted to > skim through to see what's there without already knowing what you're > looking for. Well, WikiMedia can generate an index of articles. On Wikipedia, the list is IMHO too big to be usefull. On smaller wikis, it's not so bad. Categories are meant to address this problem, but you have to be very diligent about tagging the pages. We try on the elinux wiki, but I don't know well we succeed. See: http://elinux.org/Category:Categories
> To give newbies a way into the material you need an obvious place to > start. Some kind of overview you can drill down from, which turns out > to be hard to do. Agreed. > >> I would like to improve Linux Technology Reference: >> http://www.makelinux.net/reference . >> It is going to be comprehensive and easily accessible catalog about >> Linux, GNU, FOSS and embedded Linux for develers. It contains now 900+ >> links to 100+ sites, ordered in 200+ categories. Four top level >> categories are: Linux OS - about user space system and applications, >> Linux kernel, Embedded Linux and Additional topics (design, >> documentation). >> The should be like for Linux like MSDN Library for Windows. OK - proposal added to elinux wiki at: http://elinux.org/Maintain_a_catalog_of_online_Linux_documentation ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment ============================= _______________________________________________ Celinux-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tree.celinuxforum.org/mailman/listinfo/celinux-dev
