Re: ssh -X shop problem...

[Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> I hear a hearty chorus of Amen's to that.  Frankly, linux documentation is 
> in far worse shape than it was in 1997, mostly because of the forking 
> away from the universal manpage that has been done to the doc format.  I 
> don't know of the times I've needed to look at something in docbook 
> format, even coming to this list to ask what others are using to 
> view/print those things, and have been universally ignored, I assume 
> because everyone is supposed to know WTF a docbook file is.

docbook files are normally converted to other formats, like troff (man) 
or HTML.  This way, documentation can be maintained in a single readable 
(more or less) format and converted to a variety of formats.

Linux documentation doesn't suck because of docbook.  It sucks because 
there aren't a lot of people who are interested in writing 
documentation, not many with the discipline to do it anyway, and not 
enough being paid to write it.