Posted by: DCallaghan
on September 28, 2002 11:13 PM
Well, then what are you talking about?
You want a site driven by the community to provide good documentation, tutorials, etc, for current and future Linux programmers.
So for documentation, I referred to the Linux Documentation Project. For those unfamiliar, it's a project devoted to providing documentation for Linux. Those interested in Linux and seeking documentation may wish to try there. Those in the Linux community who wish to provide documentation to a well-known, community supported project may wish to try there. You see, for this to work, its important to form a community. Participation is the only way to make something like this work.
And when I said that open source sites would materially differ from proprietary sites, since that was the point of the original post, its because the of this community-driven aspect. When was the last time you wrote a RedBook? How many shell scripting tutorials are on msdn? I mentioned the OSDN's role, because that was also part of the original post. You see, this is a discussion forum, and there are these things called threads.
O'Reilly will publish books, because that's what they do. IBM will publish RedBooks and RedPapers, some for using Linux on IBM systems, because that's what they do. Sites dedicated to providing Linux documentation online for free will continue to do so. Advanced programmers will host their projects on SourceForge while beginning and intermediate programmers can have open, free access to the source code to grow and learn as developers. Hopefully, as they do so, they will provide bug reports, documentation and code, as appropriate to their skills.
You see, nothing in your little rant, all-caps aside, is ever going to have any concrete results, because you're asking for something that already exists. The thread, and thought, end here. What will actually happen is that the community will continue to support the existing, estabished projects because they do the job well now and will continue to mature and grow. You can take your puppy energy and put it into helping the existing community grow. There have been Linux newbies who've grown up and learned through these channels. They work. Try them.
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Re:Not at all what I am talking about?
Posted by: DCallaghan on September 28, 2002 11:13 PMYou want a site driven by the community to provide good documentation, tutorials, etc, for current and future Linux programmers.
So for documentation, I referred to the Linux Documentation Project. For those unfamiliar, it's a project devoted to providing documentation for Linux. Those interested in Linux and seeking documentation may wish to try there. Those in the Linux community who wish to provide documentation to a well-known, community supported project may wish to try there. You see, for this to work, its important to form a community. Participation is the only way to make something like this work.
And when I said that open source sites would materially differ from proprietary sites, since that was the point of the original post, its because the of this community-driven aspect. When was the last time you wrote a RedBook? How many shell scripting tutorials are on msdn? I mentioned the OSDN's role, because that was also part of the original post. You see, this is a discussion forum, and there are these things called threads.
O'Reilly will publish books, because that's what they do. IBM will publish RedBooks and RedPapers, some for using Linux on IBM systems, because that's what they do. Sites dedicated to providing Linux documentation online for free will continue to do so. Advanced programmers will host their projects on SourceForge while beginning and intermediate programmers can have open, free access to the source code to grow and learn as developers. Hopefully, as they do so, they will provide bug reports, documentation and code, as appropriate to their skills.
You see, nothing in your little rant, all-caps aside, is ever going to have any concrete results, because you're asking for something that already exists. The thread, and thought, end here. What will actually happen is that the community will continue to support the existing, estabished projects because they do the job well now and will continue to mature and grow. You can take your puppy energy and put it into helping the existing community grow. There have been Linux newbies who've grown up and learned through these channels. They work. Try them.
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