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Posted: Feb. 03 2008,19:41 |
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It's true Sparks that a large part of the 'learning linux' process is in fact "learning how to find information/solutions', especially when teaching oneself.
I spent many hours searching the dsl forum to get answers (most of which were there) when I first started, and I daresay it's the same for most people. Even *nix veterans have to do a bit of this, since every system/distro has its own peculiarities. It does get a lot easier with time, but it never ends as long as you're developing your skills. Also, the lack of decent help documentation for even highly developed *nix projects (such as KDE) can be dumbfounding, and in part I think is a cultural problem in the *nix and open source world, and the fact that writing good documentation is both technically quite difficult , unsexy, and requires a different skillset to coding. (Which is why documentation writers are paid roughly the same as coders).
Unfortunately the DSL Wiki is a bit underdeveloped, which is everybody's fault here in this forum (tcchh!!)
BTW this is one reason I like Perl: because its docs are so superb. Really I've never seen anything as good, as interesting or as clear as the Perl documentation - it's a masterpiece and whoever in the Perl team is responsible deserves the highest accolades.
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