Tue, 19 Apr 2005, by jwright@blackriverproduce.com:
Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Tue, 19 Apr 2005, by radoeka@xs4all.nl:
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Stop, stop. It is incredable, within 12 hours a dedicated suse wiki has popped. And I think it will be better to use that one. [..] If you really want to make an effort for OSS or SuSE you better show your abilities on an existing project first, before starting your own.
Theo
I have to disagree. If we put all our eggs in one basket we would all be running Windows. On top of that, the more Suse related sites that are out there, the more exposure Suse gets. As that is our (or most of
More small sites with a few pages of information, that could either be unique but hard to find because the site is unknown, or just a duplicate of information on other sites does not help any Linux distribution IMHO. The situation in the FreeBSD world shows that a central site, where all of the information available can be found, leads to a more stable product in the long run, and more users who know about the inner secrets so newbies get better help on their mailinglists and newsgroups (again, IMHO).
our) favorite distro, I see that as a good thing. Every company likes free advertising. Why discourage someone for starting their own project? That is the best way to learn. Also, because they will be seriously involved, they will learn about things they never encountered, whereas if the same info was to be on another page (or wiki in this case) they may never gain that knowledge, as they were not specifically looking for that knowledge. I do understand that all info in one place can be very handy, for me it is the Internet with a little help from Google.
The learning curve for a wiki isn't that steep. I've setup a couple at $DAYJOB, it's 30 minutes work, tops. What's much harder to learn is howto write easy to understand and concise explanations, and how to organize the wiki to make navigating simple as possible. Google is very good, but 12,700,000 hits on "suse" doesn't make it any easier to find what you're looking for. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info.