On 7/19/07, a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Voluminous - yes > > Detailed - yes > > Usability - I have mixed feelings. Often it has been notes put up on > > the blogs, mailing list archives or queries on newsgroups that seem to > > give me the right answers. > > (I can count myself among those who has devoured *huge* number of > > documents @ docs.sun.com with each running into many 100s of pages). > > One often needs some base knowledge in order to be able to digest the wealth > of information on docs.sun.com, yes, that's a fact of life. >
Ah ! what can I say about the assumptions that are made. > But there are tons and tons of step-by-step guides and introductions to ease > beginners into, and let them build up that background knowledge there as > well > on docs.sun.com. > There are tons and tons of information but not for beginners to ease them. It is for people (lots related to system administration) who might be doing a set tasks many times over, they can take a printout of the doc and use it as a desk top reference. It is useful for that, no doubts about it. > This is more likely a byproduct of human impatience than lack or form of > information. Humans tend to be an impatient lot wanting instant > gratification, and for > some bizzarre reason, this behavior seems to be amplified when using > computers. > It's a paradox. > I have sending one mail just to show why docs.sun.com is not suitable for a beginner who would like to get to know OpenSolaris. Have a look at my next mail. > On the other hand, if you have suggestions on how to make the subject > materia on > docs.sun.com better, I'm pretty sure that the documentation team would love > to hear > from you. I know they've acted upon user feedback before, and that > documentation > quality was better off for it. > That I'll surely do. regards Shiv _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
