hi ya all...
yes people write docs when time is available or have a need to do so...
and if there is stuff you'd like to add for the autofs howto....
please let me know and I will put it in...
thank you
alvin
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
> > should be an associated legion of doc writers? so that you don't get
> > engineers writing intelligible documentation, free them up for more kernel
> > hacking - or is that what the linux documentation project is supposed to
> > do?
> >
> > just stirring the flames...
> >
>
>
> I totally agree with you. Here is the problem, though. Hackers write code
> because it is fun. Nobody would be slaving over a hot terminal wondering
> whether to use SIGTERM or SIGQUIT for free if they didn't enjoy doing it.
> Writing documentation, on the other hand, is not fun, at least not for
> most people, so it is harder to find people who will commit a couple of
> hundred (or more) hours of free time to a documentation project.
>
> On the other hand, my experience has been that the free documentation
> which comes with linux is an order of magnitude better than that which
> comes with Solaris (at least - so far I've found Answerbook to be 100%
> useless), for example, so I guess that corporations are even more
> reluctant to PAY someone to write documentation than the average joe
> schmoe is to write it for free.
>
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