The Missing Fedora Manual

[Don Russell]

Paul Almquist wrote:

> This would be a major undertaking but would provide opportunity for lots of 
> people to contribute to the community, especially for those that know their 
> stuff and for those that want to learn.
> 
> What think ye?  Is this feasible, useful, worthwhile or the dumbest thing you 
> ever hear?   Or maybe this already exists and I just have not learned about 
> it yet.

Generally, I think it's a nice idea...

On the IBM VM/CMS system a user can enter "HELP <message number>" and 
get a nice summary of what the error is and what the next step is.

I'm just not sure how this would fit in Fedora.... error messages don't 
appear to be very "standard".

Maybe that's your point.... but Linux is supposed to be a flavor of 
UNIX, and unless you want to change all of UNIX, I don't know how 
well-received these sorts of changes will be. It would be a lot of 
effort, but not necessarily a lot of real gain.

I'd rather see effort spent of fixing and enhancing things... :-)