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Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide

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170 points jumpocelot | 1 comments | 10 Jul 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.428s | source
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ban2ly ◴[10 Jul 25 17:12 UTC] No.44523176[source]▶
Seems useless, as Red Hat does not write documentation
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curt15 ◴[10 Jul 25 17:17 UTC] No.44523221[source]▶
Red Hat has some of the most professional documentation of any distro. E.g https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...
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1. freedomben ◴[10 Jul 25 18:57 UTC] No.44524291[source]▶
Yes agreed, and they also extensively write and maintain man pages distributed with common FOSS software, and they are some of the best man pages I've ever seen. They are also freely contributed to the upstream projects so that the entire Linux ecosystem benefits.

I do wish the knowledge base wasn't behind a log in, and Red Hat isn't perfect (there are plenty of things that either don't get updated for new RHEL releases and end up cut, or aren't comprehensive enough), but they do contribute a ton to documentation that benefits everybody.