Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[James Mohr <suse_mailing_list@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 02 June 2003 17:04, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
> * James Mohr; <suse_mailing_list@xxxxxxxxx> on 02 Jun, 2003 wrote:
> >Hmmmmm. Obviously you are not refering to the HOWTOs. They are intended to
> >explain HOWTO do something and thus are tutorial in nature and not just
> >reference. Although I would agree that the man-pages are  references,
> > "most" of the documentation I am aware of it tutorial in nature and not
> > just for reference. So much stems from the time when there wasn't any
> > documentation on how to do things so people wrote *tutorials* telling you
> > how.
>
> I would rate the current Linux Howto's as "Here is how I did it" they
> are far away to be called as tutorials.

Maybe, but they are much closer to being tutorials than pure reference. A 
tutorial tutors you (i.e. teaches you something).

Regards,

jimmo

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