User friendly distributions from linuxnewbie.org
From: "john"
Message-ID: <00a701c06bb2$43803400$bf601f18@atl.mediaone.net>
From: "peter hollings"
Frommy experience, John, you're right on. I can't begin to enumerate the jumps back and forth in the SuSE Handbook I had to do an install. If my situation didn't fit, I had to find a different procedure several chapters later. Admittedly my hardware presented some complications, but there is no single linear recipe to follow unless you're lucky. Pretty soon I found myself jumping back and forth between different chapters (even different SuSE books), off onto the web for documentation, etc. I'm embarrassed to say that if I didn't have Win and a browser running, I wouldn't have the information I needed. Of course, I want get rid of MS, but I can't yet.
The following link points to a heartfelt, but very well thought out cry for a rethink on how distributions are put together. It's a very good read.
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/articles/jrigby.html
Personally I'd like to see SuSE put some more thought into their documentation. The basic format hasn't changed much from version to version and while most of the good stuff is there, I don't find it very intuitive. For example, why are the system upgrade instructions way up on page 419 - so far away from the rest of the installation instructions? Surely all installation components should be together in one place?
A suggestion to SuSE - go beg, borrow, steal some of the doc sets from your competitors, like Compaq's Tru64, Solaris, MS Windows 2000. Examine the organization/structure, style/layout and then steal the best ideas from
Peter Hollings
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From: "john"
all and do a new design.
Then make is really obvious where customers can go to give feedback.
John
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