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Re: How to handle the jargon file?



Steve Greenland wrote:
> Why? While I like the jargon file, how is it different than the
> gnu-philosophy pages or Anarchist FAQ: An interesting (set of)
> document(s), but not really an appropriate part of an OS Distribution?
> 
> Someone (Ben Collins?) mentioned that they treat it as a dictionary, so
> I can kind of see that, although the whole thing includes a bunch of
> other stuff.

It's a dictionary. If you're reading anything vaguely technical, like a post
to debian-user, and any term is mentioned that you (or a newbie) don't
understand, it'll probably be in there.

-- 
see shy jo


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