I'm not sure if this belongs in the "which distro is right for me thread" but I think it deserves its own topic and in any case I'm not planning on changing distros anytime soon. Right now I'm using debian unstable. I'm not crazy about the documentation. The problem with debian unstable is that its a moving target and not too prone to good documentation. I know there's stable and testing but I like reasonably recent packages.
I briefly looked at fedora's docs and thought it was pretty nice-looking. I briefly looked at Mandrake's site and the docs still referred to 9.1. This brings me to what I think makes good documentation:
-comprehensive
-up-to-date
I think up-to-date is the most difficult thing for linux distros. Most distros release new editions every six months. It's apparently hard to keep the docs up to date. Based on Mandrake's site, they haven't done this yet. I looked at fedora's site right after it was released and it was there. Shouldn't docs be part of a release and not an afterthought? :/
Anyway, which distros do you think have good docs and why? And examples (links)?
Lately I've become more interested in documentation because I'm tired of asking people on irc for help. When documentation is good, it solves questions quickly and without attitude. Google simply gives you too much information and frankly I don't trust it. A lot of time you'll see an archived post referring to another version. Worse, sometimes certain fixes will cause problems elsewhere in the system if you aren't hearing it from the horse's mouth.
I briefly looked at fedora's docs and thought it was pretty nice-looking. I briefly looked at Mandrake's site and the docs still referred to 9.1. This brings me to what I think makes good documentation:
-comprehensive
-up-to-date
I think up-to-date is the most difficult thing for linux distros. Most distros release new editions every six months. It's apparently hard to keep the docs up to date. Based on Mandrake's site, they haven't done this yet. I looked at fedora's site right after it was released and it was there. Shouldn't docs be part of a release and not an afterthought? :/
Anyway, which distros do you think have good docs and why? And examples (links)?
Lately I've become more interested in documentation because I'm tired of asking people on irc for help. When documentation is good, it solves questions quickly and without attitude. Google simply gives you too much information and frankly I don't trust it. A lot of time you'll see an archived post referring to another version. Worse, sometimes certain fixes will cause problems elsewhere in the system if you aren't hearing it from the horse's mouth.
ebian.org' to the end of the search string. That's generally how I search Microsoft's support and MSDN sites since their search engine sucks, but it works for any site that google has indexed.
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