Thank you Tim and Rob,
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Tim Bird <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Constantine Shulyupin http://www.MakeLinux.com/ Embedded Linux Systems, Device Drivers, TI DaVinci _______________________________________________ Celinux-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tree.celinuxforum.org/mailman/listinfo/celinux-dev
