Documentation: Give It Up; It Won't Happen

Is providing Linux documentation an insurmountable task? I'm starting to think so. The major technical book publishers have dropped their efforts to recruit authors and publish sysadmin books. Instead, they have started focusing most of their attention on programming. Who can blame them.

Adelstein, Tom. Linux Journal (2007). Articles>Documentation>Operating Systems>Linux

Microsoft "Longhorn" Help Highlights

Microsoft’s specification for 'Longhorn' Help represents a major revolution in user assistance development for the Windows platform. Instead of simply refining the technical infrastructure of Help (windowing, links, search, etc.), Microsoft has given a good deal of thought to the needs of both Help authors and end-users.

Ellison, Matthew. WritersUA (2003). Articles>Documentation>Operating Systems>Microsoft Windows

Put Yourself In Command

Commands enable you to do all sorts of powerful things on your computer. Let's look at a task that might be familiar to you. If you use a digital camera, you probably have a folder full of images on your computer. Imagine you wish to resize the image profile.jpg so it is 300 pixels wide and save it as a new image called profile_small.jpg.

FLOSS Manuals (2009). Articles>Documentation>Operating Systems>Linux