On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:27:29AM BST, Holger Wansing wrote: > Where is that information provided on Debian-own web pages?
As my colleague already mentioned and so did I - it is not there. > Why not point to Ubuntu website? IMHO, it sends the wrong message, e.g. "we can't be bothered writing our own documentation" or "Ubuntu's got better documentation than Debian"* or "why start with Debian in the first place, use Ubuntu" - after all Debian links to their pages, they have to be better, right? If linking to a page it should be the other way around, Ubuntu to Debian's own, like they do anyway. After all without Debian, there wouldn't be Ubuntu; not the way we now know it anyway. When was the last time you've seen NetBSD linking to OpenBSD's website because they couldn't be bothered to write a HOW-TO themselves? I, like Ben, am slightly embarrassed sending our would-be users to Ubuntu web pages. To lessen it somewhat, we can write the HOW-TO but link to the software - I'm not familiar with other programs with the same functionality. This is only one of the reasons why I think it's a bad idea. P.S. One last thing. Quality of some Ubuntu documentation is appalling: * From https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto "Each user has a crontab file which specifies the actions (and times at which they should be executed) only executed when that user is logged in." where another user adds in bold: "(please doublecheck this information?!, my ubuntu box @ 11.04 runs my jobs even when I'm not logged in)" P.P.S. I hadn't cherry-picked it, I was helping someone with cron the other day and it is simply the last Ubuntu HOW-TO I came across. Regards, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110913213814.ga31...@linuxstuff.pl
