I am not sure if this is the right list to send this. But, I would really appreciate if anyone could forward this to the right list meant specifically for Linux documentation, Mandrake in particular. I came across the following while reading the Mandrake Quick Server Setup documentation as supplied with Mandrake 9. I was reading about installing and configuring the postfix mail server.
"The first step is to check that the Postfix server is installed on your computer. If it is not, please use the *rpmdrake* application or type *urpmi apache* in a terminal to install it."
It seems a copy and paste from the previous section of Apache was done pretty negligently !!
From what I have seen and experienced so far, the most IMPORTANT thing Linux needs now is good DOCUMENTATION. Windows, Mac, all of them have excellent user documentation thus making the user feel at home and not lost.
KDE has done a better job in this area with the question mark in the top right corner of almost every window like M$ Windows. GNOME still lacks good documentation support.
I don't intend to start any arguments or flames on this. This is just in the common benefit of the Linux community.
Cheers,
--Sandeep
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Sandeep Khanna
Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University
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