Printed manuals?

[Joseph Method]

It's not noise, it's umm...synchronicity. And if you look in Michael's
second post you'll see that there are several outstanding
questions/issues. Also, I saw in your original suggestion on the
-devel list the idea of just printing and binding the various manuals
and help documents from the distribution, since this is something that
can be done today. I would probably buy something like that. But then
I'm profligate.

On 2/1/06, Andrew Jorgensen <andrew.jorgensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks guys,  I'm glad to see this is being considered.  Sorry for the noise.
>
> - Andrew
>
> On 2/1/06, Joseph Method <tristil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When it rains it pours:
> >
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2006-February/005012.html
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2006-February/005018.html
> >
> > On 2/1/06, Andrew Jorgensen <andrew.jorgensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Matt (mdz) said I should bring this up here:
> > >
> > > I think it would help if one could buy a printed manual.  Even if it's
> > > just the Quick Start Guide.
> > >
> > > One of my friends wanted to try Linux so rather than download it or
> > > borrow a CD he went out and bought a book that came with a CD of
> > > MEPIS.  This reminded me that I started out with SuSE partly because
> > > it came with a decent manual.  We try very hard to make Ubuntu not
> > > need a manual, but there are a lot of people out there who prefer to
> > > have one anyway (if for nothing more than to see all the cool stuff
> > > you can do with the software).  Even MacOSX at least has a little
> > > booklet and O'Reilly is making money picking up[3] where Apple left
> > > off.
> > >
> > > The manual could come with a set of CDs.  That might be more effective
> > > than a box with CDs and a manual since manuals that come in the box
> > > are notorious for being an afterthought.
> > >
> > > Has something like this already been discussed?  What are your thoughts.
> > >
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> > >
> >
> >
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> > -J. Method
> >
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