dski
> That said, as a former technical writer, you might be willing to participate
> and make what you can — help writing some better documentation.
That would be a case of the blind leading the blind. I struggle with this
stuff as much as anyone else, even when the documentation is decent (and the
antiX docs are definitely above average).
As a tech writer, I mostly did docs for scanners, routers, and wireless
networking equipment, as well as related software — simple stuff, compared to
any Unix-like OS. (I also had managers who would sit me down and lecture me if
my understanding of something was incorrect.)
Having been a tech writer actually doesn’t mean much. When I started, I had
learned some BASIC and could read hex dumps and patch binaries to change
keystrokes and printer codes, but some folks with the same job title literally
didn’t know a bit from a byte (and wrote in ways that made it hard to believe
they’d completed college).
Not that I’m such a great writer myself. I can’t even convince Linux users
that the reasons I use Linux are valid! (Hint: My main interest is user
interface design, and I feel that Linux is our only hope of a renaissance in
this area. The Golden Age was 1979-1981, and we have been in the Dark Ages
since then.)
Regards,
Dan Strychalski
Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC
On the Mac, Ctrl didn't exist; in Windows, Ctrl-A through Ctrl-Z did virtually nothing. From 1985 on, the choice was clear: you could get the full benefit of the most basic standard of computing, or you could use a GUI and a crippled keyboard and become this or that vendor's slave. I chose WordStar. LIVE FREE OR DIE.