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- BrainInAJar, on 09/07/2008, -0/+29And people /STILL/ won't ***** read them.
- smotpoker, on 09/07/2008, -2/+23man is short for "manual" and is also the name of the command to see information on various commands/files/functions on a *nix based system. IE you type "man wget" to see a description of the wget command and all of it's options.
Sometimes manual pages change a bit depending on what version of a command you are using. "Ubuntu man pages" are typically just regular man pages whose versions correspond to specific Ubuntu versions since different Ubuntu releases have slightly different versions of commands/utilities. - mickstephenson, on 09/06/2008, -0/+18Great Idea, Brilliant Implementation. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/search.py?title=ifconfi ... reading man pages in a browser is much more pleasurable.
- inactive, on 09/07/2008, -3/+15Will anybody plz explain what exactly are these Ubuntu Manpages?
I use ubutnu but don't know what manpages are. - Vadi0, on 09/06/2008, -1/+10From the guy's blog post... this is how things should be done. See an issue, do something. Not whine on your blog posts with vulgarity throw in randomly:
"Earlier this year, I found myself on IRC answering basic questions from an Ubuntu user about some random utility, and I asked him if he had read the manpage yet. He responded that he had read whatever he could find on the web, but he didn’t really dabble on the command line in general.
It occurred to me that there may well be a contingent of Ubuntu users who are entirely disconnected from the wealth of resources so many developers have poured into manpage-based documentation.
A cursory search turned up a couple of RH-based, or advertisement-riddled Linux manpage websites. I also found manpages.debian.net, which is closer to the Ubuntu target, but unfortunately, the pages are CGI-generated and thus not indexable by Google/Yahoo.
So I submitted a request-for-comments to the Ubuntu Documentation team, and no one could point me to an existing web repository of Ubuntu’s manpages. I started the obligatory Launchpad Blueprint, Wiki Specification, and Bazaar project." - Stalks, on 09/07/2008, -0/+8http://linux.die.net/man/
- inactive, on 09/07/2008, -0/+8wrong system bro. use OpenBSD if you want to make people think you are better than them.
- fatas, on 09/07/2008, -0/+6No Windows users, you probably thought this was going to make you switch but this is not the Gay porn you were anticipating.
- huff51, on 09/07/2008, -0/+6man man
- emblemparade, on 09/07/2008, -0/+6This is a great project.
I would also like to point out that Yelp supports man pages. Type:
yelp man:fdisk
It would be nice if this were more tightly integrated into Ubuntu. - robdiggity, on 09/07/2008, -0/+5This comes as quite a relief as I've always just been too afraid to google "man" and "page"
- 4321234, on 09/06/2008, -2/+7I've found that viewing the manpage in a different format or viewer, sometimes I pick out something that I missed looking at it in a terminal. Maybe it's just me.
- hollywoodphony, on 09/07/2008, -0/+4Well, that gets my vote for "Funniest Unintentional Gay Reference of the Day".
- arjie, on 09/07/2008, -2/+7Thin nerds prefer the command line? Not quite sure what you're getting at here. Do they use up all the calories while typing? Is there something about the prompt that makes you slim? Does Weight Watchers have competition?
All these questions and more, asked only on digg.com - PHiZ187, on 09/07/2008, -0/+4http://www.manpages.com/
- BrainInAJar, on 09/07/2008, -2/+6No, no no...
it's a tribal african word, which translates roughly to "can't install debian" - martalli, on 09/07/2008, -0/+4I think it would be worthwhile to mention that konqueror will show man pages by typing things like man:tar or man:mplayer in the URL box... I like this website they made, but in a very real sense this is just for people not using KDE...
- martalli, on 09/08/2008, -0/+3Konqueror already has this function. Just type "man:[command]" in the URL section and you get the manpage.
- mrsteveman1, on 09/08/2008, -0/+3That should have been one of the new features of Chrome (or a FFX plugin):
"You are about to search for something totally gay, please click yes to continue...." - bruenig, on 09/07/2008, -1/+4Ubuntu users don't read man pages. Come on.
- smotpoker, on 09/07/2008, -1/+4You mean you can see if it exists in whichever version of Ubuntu. Versions or releases != distributions
I guess if you have some profound need to know what's available in a version you aren't running it could be useful but for most people it is not any easier or better than using the man command or searching repos.
I won't say that it's completely useless but I still believe it is not worth the effort - SteveMax, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2I googled for "online man". Fortunately, Google understood it wasn't a gay query (not that there's anything wrong with that), and the first result was http://man.he.net/ which seems a bit incomplete. http://linux.die.net/man/ seems to have everything I tried to search, even deprecated commands such as dund. I agree with smotpoker, there is no need for another online man collection, specially because man:/ is already a supported protocol in konqueror and you can read any manpage installed in your computer directly on the file manager.
- tnoy, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2And then there are those of us that only need about 15 minutes to customize our standard debian install.
If you don't have enough time to spend 15 minutes once every couple years, then you suck at your job. - kd420, on 09/06/2008, -1/+3Excellent resource, a great page to bookmark.
- Vektuz, on 09/07/2008, -0/+2Because its the standard way to document anything.
Every command you can execute in a base linux system has a page in the manual for itself.
But also every program you install (even third party programs) often add their manuals to the standard manual repository. So when you install, say, the Gnome Desktop - all those apps that install (nautilus, calculator, etc) will also have their own manpages added. So you could then type "man nautilus" and get the help for it.
Theres a lot of software out there. On a users system, only the manpages for actually installed software is there, but its easy to think that in total, 300,000 pages exist. - sirjoebob, on 09/07/2008, -1/+3Ubuntu is focusing on improving user experience. Not everyone appreciates the complexities of Gentoo for example. The big thing that the Linux community needs to do is quit noob-bashing Ubuntu and get behind it enough to say: "look at what Linux can do with direction and purpose." and then expose Ubuntu users to more specialized variants of Linux.
The important thing that Ubuntu has done is greatly increase awareness of desktop Linux and I think this will be more important in the long run than the OS itself. - thosiris, on 09/07/2008, -0/+2As much as I like Ubuntu, I think its becoming way too popular. Other distros need to step up to the plate and show that they (Gentoo, Slackware, etc) are just as great, if not better, than Ubuntu. However, Ubuntu Manpages is an awesome idea - I've got to give them that.
- enantiodromia, on 09/07/2008, -0/+1yes i know all that, i still say 300,000 sounds like a lot
- donna1234, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1HTML viewable pages
http://www.highpr.net
http://www.mad4.info
http://vindictivebastard.net
http://www.webthe.info - enantiodromia, on 09/07/2008, -1/+2how are there even 300,000 man pages in existence? wtf?
- andycr512, on 09/07/2008, -0/+1At least we -have- decent command line tools -to- document.
- veruus, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1FTFA:
"A cursory search turned up a couple of RH-based, or advertisement-riddled Linux manpage websites. I also found manpages.debian.net, which is closer to the Ubuntu target, but unfortunately, the pages are CGI-generated and thus not indexable by Google/Yahoo."
I've seen the manpage websites before, and while useful, they're not Ubuntu specific. I think it would be a great idea for every distro to have just this thing. There are sometimes differences. Reading manpages in the terminal is a bit annoying at times. I like the ability to use the browser instead. - Jalada, on 09/07/2008, -1/+2OK so because it's got Ubuntu in it everyone is more interested and thinks it's new and great. And yes, there are some other repositories out there. But Ubuntu is getting so much usage now, that having an Ubuntu themed repository with all the different versions of Ubuntu available and therefore all the right versions of the commands, is still a good thing.
- SteveMax, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1The site has five versions of each man page, one for each Ubuntu version since 6.06. This helps them inflate the numbers a lot.
- Paranormalized, on 09/07/2008, -0/+1"use OpenBSD if you want to make people think you are better than them"
Nah, you use OpenBSD if you want to make people think _you_ think you are better than them. - frontporsche, on 09/07/2008, -0/+1Now, if they just add all the /usr/share/doc stuff, and then add links both ways between the man pages and the docs.
- tnoy, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1That got me to laugh a little
- souravondigg, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1Or the great Slackware.
- mohamedmansour, on 09/07/2008, -2/+4Its not dumb, it is quite nice. You can search for any command online and see where it exists in which distribution. Quite useful I'd say.
- elzbal, on 11/08/2008, -0/+0Web browsers provide a far, far more comfortable way to view man pages. But there's tons of sites that are able to display man pages. I tend to use http://www.manpages.spotlynx.com
- smotpoker, on 09/07/2008, -3/+3This idea is kinda dumb if you ask me. There are plenty of HTML manual pages on the web already that do not differ significantly between command/app versions and standard man pages are often a bit too technical for "average desktop users" anyway.
If you wanna Ubuntu-ify them and make them more easily understood by laymen at the same time they might prove useful but just copy/pasting the current text out of man pages is a waste of time and effort IMO - inactive, on 09/07/2008, -1/+1Howtos doesn't have all the technical info about an specific piece of software as the manpages do. Don't confuse them, they are different things.
- mickstephenson, on 09/07/2008, -1/+1I like the superman idea, perhaps a gtk manpage viewer is in order
- enantiodromia, on 09/07/2008, -1/+1lol, that's funny :)
- sirjoebob, on 09/07/2008, -1/+1The purpose of this is evident when looking at your comment. The issue is not that they are not available but that you have to go to "many" sites sometimes. This is just an effort at putting it all in one place.
- lzj235711, on 09/08/2008, -0/+0good!!
- BrainInAJar, on 09/07/2008, -8/+7I think he was making a joke about ubuntu users being too clueless to know what man pages are
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