info and man

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed May 24 20:22:45 UTC 2006


On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 06:01:36PM -0400, Paul King wrote:
> While I appreciate the fine distinction between Linux and GNU, I think the 
> general use among most people (including most TLUGgers I have noticed) is to say 
> "Linux" when we refer to the operating system and its attendant commands, taken 
> as a whole. While that would not make Richard Stallman happy, I think that is the 
> convention that most of us have adopted. Whether this is appropriate or "correct" 
> is another matter. 
> 
> I would predict that this disticntion will matter less and less to the general 
> public when mom, pop and aunt Martha start adopting Linux. They'll just call the 
> whole thing Linux, just like in the Old Days (TM) when people used to call DOS 
> "WordPerfect", because they spent their whole time there to write documents, move 
> and delete files, and create directories as though it were the OS itself.
> 
> That being said, I didn't know that docbook/html was used for the kernel docs. I 
> usually read the stuff underneath /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ if I want to know 
> something about how to tweak the kernel. That stuff is usually plain, raw ASCII.

Hmm, most is still plain text.  Documentation/DocBook and
Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook seem to be the only places using DocBook so far.

But fortunately, Linux, no matter what meaning you give to it, is NOT
moving towards info for documentation.

Len Sorensen
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