Linux 2.4 VM Documentation Completed

cyb97 writes "kerneltrap.org is reporting that Mel Gorman has finished his project to document the ins and outs of the Linux 2.4 VM. Available in PDF/HTML/TXT at his webpage."

thanks

[zogger]

--my thanks to anyone who writes more documentation for linux. It's a *good thing* from this newbs perspective.

newbs?

[SHEENmaster]

IMHO, most documentation is either woefully incompletely or woefully too detailed. Newbs would best get help through IRC if we didn't just tell them to read the fuckin manual.

Maybe we should restructure the How-To, man, and info documentation into skill levels such as lameass, newbie, user, admin, and developer. Maybe beginners wouled be more likely to RTFM if they didn't have to read all of it?

Re:newbs?

[zogger]

well, speaking as a newb, my point was ANY documentation is better than no documentation, at least in most cases, and I wanted the writer to know that his efforts were appreciated. Not as sexy as a new video card or latest sco gossip, but at the time I posted, it was being mostly ignored..

I'm still at the point that I can't code,and I can't even help write documentation for anything, you need to fully understand a subject first before you can write about it. At least when the creators write some documen

more power to the author

[SHEENmaster]

I was expressing views on docs in general; more documentation is always better when we have tools such as google to look through them.

Re:newbs?

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

"I'm still at the point that I can't code,and I can't even help write documentation for anything, you need to fully understand a subject first before you can write about it."

Not true. I've seen a few guides written from a 'newbs perspective' -- step by step exlaining what you learned and how you made it run. They're by no means exhaustive, But can really help someone new out. Us that fully understand it tend to go over everyones heads, thus making docs that are useless to everyone else. If you write what y

HOWTO install Belchdata

[zogger]

Good point! I'll give it a shot! How I first installed open source! Here I go!

Cool,my geek friend in town handed me these disks, he said he downloaded them off his dads cable! Got me the new belchdata free OS vs1.34alpha

slap cd in, turn it on!...aww shoot, forget to set "biosphere", need to tell it which thingee to look at fust, OK, try again...now, you must mash [enter]

Wow, a PERFECT screen! I can read everything, crystal clear! Better than the old screen and it's not installed yet! This ought to be GOO

GNU/Linux VM Documentation

[hayriye]

Isn't it supposed to be called "GNU/Linux VM Documentation"?

Re:GNU/Linux VM Documentation

[RiverTonic]

No, I don't think so. I still have to read the documentation but afaik it's the kernel that does the memory management and not the GNU-tools.