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[Dustin Kirkland]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:
> A manpage repository is a good idea. I agree with Matthew that manpages are
> documentation, but I see them as separate from general help. I refer to both
> help pages and manpages. Help pages assist me in narrowing down a specific
> issue I have which may ultimately point me to software from which point I then
> need the manpage to figure out how to use that software. Anything written,
> with a purpose, that is helpful can arguably be called documentation. But I see
> the Ubuntu help system as very different from the Linux manpages.

A different vector, yes.  A resource entirely untapped by GUI-only
Ubuntu users, in my opinion.

Although I spend all day, every day on a dozen command line terminals,
I figured that many Ubuntu users only every search for help in a web
browser.  They could very well be missing tens of thousands of
documents in the form of manpages!

And while they could go to:
 * http://www.linuxmanpages.com/ (Red Hat based distros)
 * http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi (Debian)

I thought we needed one specifically for Ubuntu.


:-Dustin