Once again sorry about the top post.
Afaik, there has never been a foo in the man pages. What I was referring to was the new
people find the jargon in them, if not intimidating, at least confusing, if they do not
know the jargon.
It was the same with some of howto's that were available in the 90's.
I am self taught, and there are plenty of gaps in my knowledge on the admin side of
things, and I am still learning.
Having been away from computers for quite some time, and these mail lists, my 2nd last
fedora install was fc 5. The helpfu improvement in the lists since the 90's is
unreal.
Just my 0.02
Dave
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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Murphy <frankly3d(a)gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:27:43
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Subject: Re: Meta-discussions and the role of the Fedora Community
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:04:22 +0000
davidschaak1(a)mobilicity.blackberry.com wrote:
I
can also remember a time on these support lists that the usual
response to new users questions was 'RTFM'. The manuals were and
still are very technical in jargon that are not very helpful unless
one knows the jargon.
I agree on the man pages,
but is that not part of the whole Agile discipline,
which was in *nix before Agile came about. iirc.
I personally love an example, over a man foo
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Regards,
Frank
http//www.frankly3d.com
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