Thanks Nadav, Indeed, local access is valuable too. On Nov 26, 2007 10:06 AM, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Linux reference": > > What is missing, IMHO, is a real MSDN like site. Something that will > > give a spread of the man pages and header files with a search engine. > > I agree that lately it seems that the Web has become everything, but really, > in this case, why do you want to have this information on the Web, and not > locally? Wouldn't it be better to some program (a beefed up version of xman, > tkman, pinfo, or whatever) that give you access to the man pages, header > files, > javadocs, info files, documentation PDFs, READMEs and so on and so on *on > your system*? This will have several benefits over a Web version: > > * The information you get is true to your exact system and the software > versions you have - not more and not less. > * The information is always there and always quick (this is becoming less > and less of an issue, but sometimes still matters). > > Unlike Microsoft's MSDN, which can (somewhat) cleanly divide the information > it gives into "in Windows XP, ...., while in Windows VISTA, ...". in Linux > this would be almost impossible - for every search you perform, there will be > a different answer for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, an answer for Linux 2.4 vs. > 2.6, > for Glibc version X vs. version Y, for ten-thousand different packages you may > or may not have installed, with ten versions each, and so on and so on. > This is why I think it would be easier to create a system that searched for > information on your system, which is relevant to your system. > > > Ok, not really MSDN like. It will be more useful to allow the user to > > limit the search to a specific subsection of the site. > > Indeed. > > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Monday, Nov 26 2007, 16 Kislev 5768 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |My typos are intentional copyright traps. > http://nadav.harel.org.il | >
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