On Tuesday 10 March 2009 04:40:29 am Birger Kollstrand wrote:
2009/3/10 Carlos E. R.
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On Monday, 2009-03-09 at 21:34 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
jdd escribió:
couldn't we *drop* the boxed edition? We could still sell a *manual*
Do you really believe that people interested in the distribution will buy a manual that is available online anyway ?
Yes, I would.
I agree with Carlos, I would expect that quite a lot would like an "openSUSE for Dummies" book. (Me included :-) I guess I would discover new secrets about openSUSE there also)
Birger
I agree that there are changes that is not easy to follow without serious insider help. I don't dare to start putting togeather list of questions that each serious openSUSE user would like to know. Current status of looking around mail lists, forums, wiki, all novel.com URLs etc, for pieces of information is time consuming. Though, there must be better way to deliver printed media. Not everything is changed from version to version, so ringbook and updated pages might be the way to go. It would be far easier to prepare, cheaper to print, and user will have one current book, and archive for past releases. Beauty of the print has no much value for technical documents. The problem for guys that have to write documentation is that developmet has to be frozen for a while, so that they can document changes. It is often far faster do create feature, then to document it. Programming languages are meant to be compressed expression, understandable to people with some training, while documentation has to explain that to people without it. What this will allow to openSUSE enthusiasts? Being knowledgable, leading community members. Lesser explanations online, just point to document. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org