Re: [tlug] State of "Linux" documentation [was: Books]

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Scott Robbins writes:

 > This isn't necessarily a bad thing.  The greater the user base, the
 > easier it might become to get hardware support.  I have great respect
 > for those on Ubuntu forums who answer those questions politely.

Only the first time it's asked, only the first time.  The second time
it should be answered with a polite link to the FAQ.

 > I wonder sometimes if all of us are a bit schizophrenic (more hyperbole,
 > of course) in that we don't want it dumbed down, but we do want to get a
 > greater user base.  

No, it's not schizoid.  There's a third way, which is to keep the
information accessible through a generic schema (which could be an XML
database or a .ini file for all I care), and compete to provide
appropriately simplified and/or flexible (as the user desires) UIs to
retrieve and modify records via that schema.