Back in the day when I first got in to linux a friend of mine gave me his redhat 5.2 cd. Just the cd no manuals or any thing. I struggled through the install on my only computer by trial and error. I wiped out my previous windows install so I had no way to get online documentation or check messageboards. If it were not for luck and about a million trips to the book store I would still be trying to get linux installed. The point is in this age of technology things we try don't always work and when things don't work it is very nice to have a collection of paper that just requires a light to read it by so I can fix what goes wrong. It seems to me that if printed manuals were more readily avalible finding a well written one would not be so hard.
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Back in the day when I first got in to linux a friend of mine gave me his redhat 5.2 cd. Just the cd no manuals or any thing. I struggled through the install on my only computer by trial and error. I wiped out my previous windows install so I had no way to get online documentation or check messageboards. If it were not for luck and about a million trips to the book store I would still be trying to get linux installed. The point is in this age of technology things we try don't always work and when things don't work it is very nice to have a collection of paper that just requires a light to read it by so I can fix what goes wrong. It seems to me that if printed manuals were more readily avalible finding a well written one would not be so hard.