[GRLUG] Suse

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:36:37PM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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).

Does Ubuntu require man pages for its packages?  Debian does.  In fact,
the Debian developers write many of the man pages for the utilities/apps
for which the upstream does not provide them.  Does any other distro do
that?  (This is not intended to become a distro-flame-fest.)  Having the
command work the same way on all *nix systems  and having a man page
available with all its options is another story.
-- 
john-thomas
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