Creative Documentation 136
FuriousCurio writes "Linux kernel hackers appear to be an endlessly creative group of individuals. In response to previous documentation attempts not having been read by many people, KernelTrap is reporting about how the lguest documentation was prepared to be something of an adventure story. Self-proclaimed to turn you into an lguest expert, lguest being one of the new solutions for running a virtual instance of the Linux operating system as a user process within a real instance of the Linux operating system, the documentation mixes humor and wit into puzzles, poetry, and of course source code and a low-level understanding of virtualization. But the questions remains, will making documentation more entertaining actually work to get people to read it?"
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I thought my Linux education was going well... (Score:5, Funny)
Q1. What is lguest? (Score:5, Funny)
A. RTFM n00b.
docutainment (Score:3, Funny)
WTF? (Score:1, Funny)
Documentation, even good documentation can be difficult enough to understand without 'puzzles'. Readers want answers to questions and solutions to their problems and quickly goddamnit.
wrong forum (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No (Score:2, Funny)
Next Big Headline (Score:3, Funny)
Future Headline: Journalists try and mix humor, wit and puzzles in their writing in order to encourage /.ers to actually RTFA.
Summary Result: A bunch of disappointed journalists.
Re:Short answer: no (Score:4, Funny)
Aha! So that's why I know so freakin' much about aardvarks, but jack sh!t about zebras.
Re:I thought my Linux education was going well... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yes.... (Score:5, Funny)
Read the Documentation? (Score:3, Funny)
I am however, rapidly refreshing these same 3-4 browser tabs, hoping to watch the works of Shakespeare to eventually flash briefly past my weary eyes...
You are in a dusty kernel driver directory (Score:4, Funny)