[GRLUG] Suse

Adam Tauno Williams adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 15:36:37 EST 2008


On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 16:22 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The official web site is particularly un-helpful.  :(
> > Verses recreating every document and HOWTO like the Ubuntu crew enjoys?
> I hate to topic-shift, but documentation is one area where Ubuntu
> fails *hard*.  Online tutorials with high PageRank values are
> perpetually two or more releases behind, and don't even *think* about
> looking for a man page for any Ubuntu-specific tool.  See man(5)
> undocumented.

Which, of course, is the inevitable result of their utterly massive
re-branding approach (vs development & attribution/contribution).
Sheesh, I've seen a HOWTO entitled "How to find duplicate files with
fdupes on Ubuntu".  Uhm.... let me guess "man fdupes"?  What is Ubuntu
(or anything) specific about that?  The same commands work the same way
on AIX.  Ubuntu is 10% a LINUX distro and 80% a marketing campaign (not
sure what the other 10% is).
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