I was playing with some stuff on my Debian box, and
I discovered that in the configuration for Apache installed
with Debian, that there is an alias that points to
/usr/doc
so if you type
it shows you a directory listing of
/usr/doc
I thought this was pretty cool. I could surf through /usr/doc with
my browser. Well, then I found /usr/doc/HTML and which took me
to the following url.
Interesting thing is the Debian developers put in some cool directory
listings, and if you also installed info2www and man2html with dselect,
it has links to those too. I had them installed, and checked them out. Of
course the page has a search box too. So, I thought, what could this
be? And as I continued my psychodelic adventure through the regions
of Debian unbeknownst to me, I typed in a word and hit submit. Well, my
little adventure knocked against the wall, and I discovered that I had not
installed glimpse. Hmm, I had found an area that required a search engine
that I did not have. So, I returned to dselect and installed glimpse. I
returned to the page, resubmitted my keyword, and voila, and results page
indicated the frequency of my query along with a link to each page of
interest. Not that these tools can't be installed on other Linux distros,
but it seems that Debian demonstrates a certain elegance regarding the
cooperative integration of these tools. Perhaps through the detailed
complexity of Debian, we have arrived at a simple refined integration?
Does my little poetic story make sense? ;-)
brian
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