Re: [tlug] State of "Linux" documentation [was: Books]

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Scott Robbins writes:
>  > I wonder sometimes if all of us are a bit schizophrenic (more hyperbole,
>  > of course) in that we don't want it dumbed down, but we do want to get a
>  > greater user base.  
>
> No, it's not schizoid.  There's a third way, which is to keep the
> information accessible through a generic schema (which could be an XML
> database or a .ini file for all I care), and compete to provide
> appropriately simplified and/or flexible (as the user desires) UIs to
> retrieve and modify records via that schema.
>   

Is this a Graham Greene reference? that might be appropriate if you are 
talking about something like windows registry ;)

My impression is that you would be better to create a domain model 
capable of describing the OS in terms a users can understand and have 
that translated into configuration for the system.  User GUI tools and 
console applications could modify objects in a shared domain model.  But 
then we are both talking in abstract terms so we may be talking about 
the same sort of thing.

Edward