Cheap Printed Official Ubuntu Linux Documentation 45
A reader writes:"The Official Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu 6.06 Desktop Guides, the Official Ubuntu Server 6.06 Guide and the Official Ubuntu Packaging Guide are all now available in print from on-line publisher Lulu. The best part? All of these guide are cheap, in fact the only cost is that of manufacture and shipping, both Canonical and Lulu do not make any profit on the books at all. The Official Ubuntu Desktop Guide for example only costs $6.49 plus postage and contains 98 pages in total. Free downloadable PDF files are available for download on the Ubuntu Documentation Project Lulu website as well as on-line copies at http://help.ubuntu.com. All of the guides are available in many different languages thanks to the Ubuntu Translation Teams. Currently there are about 10 different languages available, more translations will be added to the store as they are compleated in Canonical's on-line project management web site Launchpad. All the guides are dual licenced under the GFDL and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licences. This is a really good idea to give Linux users cheap and reliable printed Linux manuals. Lets hope other distributions follow Ubuntu's lead on this one, some of the Gentoo manuals for example available in print this cheap would be really great to see."
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Isn't that the OpenBSD User's Guide?
New slogan (Score:2)
Linux for Old Fogies
or
Linux that Kills Trees.
Seriously though, it's good that actual paper documents are still made availalbe. Until we have e-paper or HP stops raping consumers for 3.5mL of ink at $30 a pop, we need a company like Canonical to keep the printed docs tradition alive.
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Or be sensible and buy a Canon. Canon printers don't give a shit if you refill the carts.
Personally, I bought a laser printer instead. I ended up paying $300 total, but that covered $200 for the [used, remanufactured] printer and another $100 with shipping to get the network ca
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Let me relay my experiences.
The company I work for has a s/w package with a reasonable amount of documentation,
which we used to provide on the CD only, in online viewing form only - installed
with the app.
We were continually asked if we had printed documentation.
So we created it. Guess what - no-one ordered it (and it was very cheap).
So we dropped a printable version on the CD.
Again - no-one printed it.
Everyone wants to know you *can* provide printed documentation.
No-one actually *w
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The issue of the manuals falling out-of-date is probably less relevant in a highly-controlled corporate environment - most large corps have Windows Update turned off on their desktops, I would imagine they would do the same with Ubuntu. Thus the manuals will stay relevant far longer.
On a non
Fairly unlikely, for Gentoo (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Fairly unlikely, for Gentoo (Score:1)
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Looks like the mods have been on the $2 crack again.
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The PDFs... (Score:5, Informative)
MOD Parent right up!!! (Score:2)
what I would like to see... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:what I would like to see... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:what I would like to see... (Score:2, Informative)
man hier
man -k [insert phrase here] (also try en
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Also, apropos.
When I first found out about this tool, I thought it was going to be useless compared to locate, but the fact that you can get the title of the man-page entries, plus a short description, is incredibly useful when you don't know exactly what you are looking for.
Re:what I would like to see... (Score:2, Informative)
I don't know about you, but the man page for man(1) on my distro says that apropos and man -k are equivalent... whatis OTOH, is different, and is equivalent to man -f :-)
oddly enough, the same script is used for both whatis and apropos (on gentoo at least) it just uses different parameters for grep depending on how it was called... The More You Know :-)
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Ugly! (Score:3, Interesting)
Maybe I can figure out my current problems... (Score:1, Offtopic)
Just tried out the New 6.06 Ubuntu Dapper on a clean install. Although I've been configuring servers for years with Gentoo or RedHat, the Desktop Linux keeps stomping on me. Wireless card (3com 3CRSHPW196) seems to work but doesn't, DNS gets lost every few minutes on static LAN, could not figure out how to import Outlook Express messages and settings into Evolution and many other surprises along the way. It looks nice, but it's so much effort looking at message boards for hours to figure
won't open in evince! (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:Not as spiffy as commercial offerings (Score:2)
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I don't think this is the book's intentions. This looks more like a quick reference guide. Have you even tried installing Dapper Drake? Just so you know: it acts as a LiveCD at first, and places you on a desktop with 2 icons. One is listed examples and one says install. G
Lolzo1d (Score:1)