et wrote: > the "moving target" that a (IMHO) good Linux Distro should be is one of the > greatest problems with creating "book" documentation, I would guess. by the > time the reasearch and writting and printing and distribution of the paper > goes out, it would be time for the next distro, with a number of improvments > that would render the old book about as good as a 1970 phone book for Miami. > the stuff flat out changed. > It has been my experiance that the best documentation I can find is either > refered to on is in this mail list (and the newbie list for installation) and > some of the least fricton of any "help" method.
I'm hoping WikiLearn can help address this problem. It's not there yet, by any means, but take a look at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/AboutThesePages. You can help, in any of these ways: * If you have a question, try seeing if it's answered on WikiLearn -- try http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/search/Wikilearn, or just click on search from any WikiLearn page. (Or try a Google search with site:twiki.org or site:twiki.sourceforge.net in the search query.) * If it's not answered (or you don't think it's answered, after at least some attempt at a search), try creating a WikiLearn page with the question on it. Post to expert (newbie, or any other mail list), saying that you have a question about such and such and it's posted at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/<name of WikiLearn page>. Suggest that people answer the question on that page. * Register to edit WikiLearn at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration. * Subscribe to get a daily notification of page changes at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WebNotify. * If you can answer a question, or help answer a question, edit the page with the question appropriately. * If you are experienced in Linux, Perl, cgi, html, and other good stuff, help me move WikiLearn to it's "permanent" location on SourceForge. Do a TWiki search on "ToDo" in page (topic) names, or help me set up utilities and procedures for things like backups and so forth. Notes: 1. Pages can be renamed, so if the initial name for a page is not intuitive / descriptive enough, the page name can be changed. Usually, it is a good idea to recreate the original page, delete all the "boilerplate text", and put a note there saying "Moved to <name of new WikiLearn page>. 2. WikiLearn is indexed on Google and similar web search engines. On Google, WikiLearn is indexed under two different domains, twiki.org and twiki.sourceforge.net. Last time I checked, the update cycle was 4 to 8 weeks, fortunately, sometimes the two domains are indexed at different times, thus (sort of) indexing the site twice as often. The content of this email has been moved to a WikiLearn page: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/HowYouCanHelp. Randy Kramer
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