Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Check out the FreeBSD handbook at: >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ >> It is also available as a pdf which is >1000 pages! It doesn't cover >> everything, but it does cover a lot. They also have other books and >> articles at http://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html. >> > > That sounds more like a problem than a solution. I would not try an OS > that had a 1000 page manual. I want simple, not comprehensive. >
I have experienced that a user's skills set increases on an OS, he is interested in more detailed documentation. So a "cheat sheet" like documentation may be very nice to get a user up and running (or a quick and dirty reference), but to delve deeper in to an OS, a detailed and comprehensive documentation is invaluable. Consequently, such a documentation could be taken as one of metrics to decide "maturity" of a system. Take Gentoo's for example. I have seen that their documentation tends to be thorough, but not in any cryptic sense. It is actually quite explanatory about what is really going on. Interestingly, I have been able to skip paras and section which I have at times decided to be too low level to refer to for a given problem. So in a sense, it is quite friendly while being comprehensive and detailed. Wonderful job. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
