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> Honestly, I have mixed feelings about this. One of the problems the > Linux community faced is that there's a lot of information out there, > but it's distributed over so many places, it's hard to know where to > look. Yes, you can Google things and find resources all over, but that > helps you answer specific questions, not find out new things you didn't > know about. Since there are so many existing places like this, I think > the user would have been better served if you posted your articles on an > existing one. Well your hardly the first person to say something along the line of 'wait on a minute, don't we already have this ... www.howtoforge.com' or 'why not just contribute to tldp.org' My website started being just a documentation website for my traineeship (part of traineeship required me to document everything I have learned) then it because just a point of reference for myself when I was setting up my Linux servers for my job. I started getting so many hits and questions about things I thought it might be a good idea to turn it into something that will really help the community at large. But isn't variety the spice of life & if we wanted to make everyone do thing one way and only offer one choice then wouldn't we just me Microsoft? > This was one of the frustrating things about OpenZaurus, when I was > using a Sharp Zaurus as my PDA. There's about 5 different sites > dedicated to it, all with different content, some contradictory, and > much of it without timestamps, so you had no idea which article was newer. Date stamps, thats probably a good idea to try and put on my articles. > Having said that, the articles look very well done (except for not > having the aforementioned "born on date"). That's some great writing. Thanks! > Oh, am I the only one who read the acronym too quickly as OSH*T? Maybe > that's appropriate, though ;) lol, I didn't notice that, but your right, if someone esle mentions is I'll just say it's an inside joke about the amount of Linux documentation out there. > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- OpenSourceHowTo.org [url]http://www.opensourcehowto.org/[/url] Wiki.OpenSourceHowTo.org [url]http://wiki.opensourcehowto.org/[/url] My ServerSetup Scripts [url]http://evilperson85.110mb.com[/url] Please Support OpenSourceHowTo.org [url]http://www.opensourcehowto.org/how-to/welcome/support-opensourcehowto.org.html[/url] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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