Linux Hardware Problem and Solution Page

Here’s a web page that is absolutely no help to me. Still, I recommend checking it out just to see how a detailed help page looks. This guy has what he calls the Linux Hardware Problem and Solution Page which does precisely one thing: It lists the voltage and some other setting requirements of a specific motherboard so you’ll know how to compile your linux kernel to work with that motherboard. This guy’s brilliant, but this page is useless to all but four people.

I give this example as a way to illustrate how difficult it is to collect really useful data into a Linux help page. You can either be too broad and help no one, or too specific and help just one or two people. I think this is why forums like the one at LinuxQuestions.org are important because it collects the sum of all the knowledge of it’s visitors, whether newbs or pros and selects just parts of that knowlege to answer specific questions. In my opinion this is a much better way to run a help site. Not to knock the guy at the first link - he wasn’t going for a comprehensive page.