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one OS to work with. My take is that he only<br>
encountered Scribus to write a book about it.<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My view is that today far to many people write books about "what I have learned when trying this" instead of "what you should know about xxxxx".<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is true also about many tutorials and howtos, often they just try to list the steps the author went through (usually missing a few steps and doing things more complicated than necessary). I use Debian a lot and when I find tutorials they very often contain "non-debian" ways of customizing the configuration when the README.Debian tells you how you should do it in the Debian way.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I've read tutorials that were several pages long, when all that was needed was an apt-get install followed by creating a small configuration file with a couple of macros defined (setting up exim4 as mail server for a domain is a good example).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">(I think /usr/share/doc/<package name> is a place where every Debian user should start looking when they want to change a configuration.)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">/Peter<br></div></div>