On 10/06/2005 11:04 PM, Carl Hartung wrote:
<snip> There are also many people who believe printing bulky manuals on paper is old fashioned and bad for the environment; that doing so adds unnecessary cost to the distribution and is redundant, anyway, since full documentation is provided on the media and available on-line.
They should get rid of the CDs too, as all those plastics factories are bad for the environment -- far worse, in fact, than cutting down a few trees. There are also many people who are unable to read an online manual. I can usually remember where something is in a printed book, plus/minus 5 pages, after I've read it once. In 20 years, I have yet to begin to develop the same ability with an online manual. Besides, there is just some quality about a printed SuSe manual on one's bookshelf, that "SuSE admin manual.pdf" doesn't quite seem to match, particularly if you went to a SuSE trade show and asked Andreas to autograph it for you.