I think that in the limit, it would be ideal that every piece of software--no matter how obscure--would have sufficiently extensive documentation to cover every single corner case of its operation (and I want a pony, while I'm making impossible wishes :P)
I humbly recommend that the official documentation be structured as a wiki to facilitate this end. If someone wants to publicly document how to do something, even if it will only be useful to them at the end of the day, I think doing so is still a worthwhile effort since chances are that person's experience isn't so unique that no one else can benefit from the knowledge gained. -Jude On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:39 AM, KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 08:11:54PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 10:13:09PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote: > > > > > > My point is that if you need to care about boot loaders (or > > > recompiling the kernel, or shrinking/extending a couple of > > > partitions), then you should know exactly what you are doing, or be > > > ready to accept the consequences, or refrain from doing anything :) > > > > My point is that it should be easy to learn what it is you're doing. > > > > I got your point and I mostly agree with the necessity of producing > useful documentation. Just I don't see why the official documentation > of a distribution (something like the Debian Reference) should include > a guide on how to recover your system when you have messed up things > with a specific bootloader, e.g. LILO, which is something extremely > rare to happen to 99.99% of the typical users :) > > My2Cents > > KatolaZ > > -- > [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] > [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] > [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] > [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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