UNIX admin wrote: >> To build the knowledge following development projects >> are started in the Menhir project: >> * A document based on "BSD Associate Exam Objectives" >> will be written which guides every user in the use >> and administration of FreeBSD, NetBSD, Slackware and >> OpenSolaris. >> * A document based on "Advanced Linux Programming" >> will be written which teaches the advanced devlopment >> on the four platforms. >> > > It's of course your spare time and effort, but as far as (Open)Solaris > documentation goes, I believe that your time would be better spent developing > great new software for Solaris, on Solaris, than writing documents which > already exist, and which happen to be of very high quality. > > There are professional technical writers working on Solaris documentation and > the amount of detailed, step-by-step documentation on every Solaris topic > imaginable is mind boggling. > I find the professional documentation for Solaris fairly typical of professional documentation these days, and not terribly useful. It is, as you say, detailed and step-by-step. What it *doesn't* do is give me any traction in really understanding how the system works; which means I have no way to choose among the alternative approaches offered, for example. It never seems to directly answer the question I have at the time.
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