On Mon, Nov 26, 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Linux reference": > What is missing, IMHO, is a real MSDN like site. Something that will > give a spread of the man pages and header files with a search engine.
I agree that lately it seems that the Web has become everything, but really, in this case, why do you want to have this information on the Web, and not locally? Wouldn't it be better to some program (a beefed up version of xman, tkman, pinfo, or whatever) that give you access to the man pages, header files, javadocs, info files, documentation PDFs, READMEs and so on and so on *on your system*? This will have several benefits over a Web version: * The information you get is true to your exact system and the software versions you have - not more and not less. * The information is always there and always quick (this is becoming less and less of an issue, but sometimes still matters). Unlike Microsoft's MSDN, which can (somewhat) cleanly divide the information it gives into "in Windows XP, ...., while in Windows VISTA, ...". in Linux this would be almost impossible - for every search you perform, there will be a different answer for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, an answer for Linux 2.4 vs. 2.6, for Glibc version X vs. version Y, for ten-thousand different packages you may or may not have installed, with ten versions each, and so on and so on. This is why I think it would be easier to create a system that searched for information on your system, which is relevant to your system. > Ok, not really MSDN like. It will be more useful to allow the user to > limit the search to a specific subsection of the site. Indeed. -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Nov 26 2007, 16 Kislev 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |My typos are intentional copyright traps. http://nadav.harel.org.il | ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
