* Denise Bates <dbates(a)iconz.co.nz> [2006-06-06 06:35]:
Both the distros of my choice, Slackware http://www.slackbook.org/ and FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ have had excellent documentation available for quite some time.
Despite preferring the exact same distros, I can’t say I agree. The Slackbook is decent, if not very extensive, but deals only with system config and working on the shell. The FreeBSD docs (not just the handbook) are orders of magnitude more detailed, but they too only detail things at the same level. Make no mistake, they are very valuable to sysadmin-type folks. (Most of the other docs for other distros that someone else linked also seem to fall into this category.) The Ubuntu docs are very different, though, heavily GUI-oriented. They are stuff you’d give a Windows user who just wanted to use a pre-configured desktop system and doesn’t know how to find his or her way around a new desktop environment particularly well. As well, from what I can see, Ubuntu *doesn’t* have a particularly extensive manual of the FreeBSD handbook type that documents the system at the level of a sysadmin’s interest. (I guess you’d defer to the Debian manuals for that sort of stuff?) So the examples given are really kind of orthogonal to the Ubuntu manual. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>