DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Improved self -learning help . (wiki/howto/tutor)
BetaFtpd doesn't have a manual because the binary has no user-configurable seetings. Once it's compiled the only thing you can do with it is start and stop. Maybe there should be more info about compile time options and editing the source.
Anyway, yes I agree with the original poster that documentation could be improved. This has always been the case and always will be. I also agree with lucky13 that documentation that is not specific to DSL or the tools written for DSL should not be expected to necessarily be included here. There are many places around the internet where you can learn how to compile applications and configue a Linux environment. When such configuration requires special steps unique to DSL (such as with backup/restore), it is that bit of information which is provided here.
As with any new Linux user, the new DSL user *must* learn some of the basics of GNU/Linux in order to do anything more than use a few "clicky" applications. The difference is that most distros come with hundreds of megabytes of redundant "basics of Linux" docs, and DSL does not have that luxury.
Anyway, yes I agree with the original poster that documentation could be improved.
Like M$, for example. Take this morning, when my girlfriend's internet connection went down. I click "help" and the first thing they ask is "sir, do you have a Zyxel AG-225H attached to a Sony Vaio?" I click "yes," and it says a possible problem is that the USB port isn.t supplying enough charge to keep it running, "do you need further assistance in solving the problem?" Again, I click "yes," and it tells me to disconnect the AG-225H and plug it into my Dell laptop upstairs for a while, which I do. After 10 minutes, I run down and type, "what next?" and it tells me to disconnect the AG-225H from the Dell, and reconnect it back into the the Sony Vaio USB port. Wala...problem solved!! Yes, DSL needs the kind of support we're all used to from M$S help.huh.... I've never found the help in Windows to be much help at all.
Quote (mikshaw @ July 23 2007,22:46)
huh.... I've never found the help in Windows to be much help at all.
Geez, I thought I was being obvious...guess not sarcasm/irony doesn't print well. But mostly I didn't pay close enough attention to what you actually said =o)Next Page...
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