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[Jared Norris <jrnorris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 December 2011 06:17, amjjawad HOOHAA <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I don't use it nor need it :)
> Someone already posted on my thread that Lubuntu FAQs (Wiki) need to be
> updated according to the link I mentioned
> (http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-installing-ubuntu.html)
> Since I have never used JAVA on Linux, I'm asking those who are using it to
> check whether we need to update our Wiki or not?
>
> So, again, please double check this:
> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-installing-ubuntu.html
>
> and if necessary, update this:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ/Guides#Some_Java_applications_don.27t_work.2C_I_want_proprietary_Oracle_Java
>
> I didn't update the Wiki because I'm not sure because I don't use Java :)
>
> Thanks :)
>


This is the very big problem I see with having a separate FAQ to the
main information on the wiki. Unless it's specific to Lubuntu I really
don't see why it should exist on our FAQ area at all. All this does is
duplicate information AND reduce the number of people working on a
topic. This is a perfect example because the proper Java page [0] was
updated a while ago to reflect the changes.

So my opinion is, unless it's specific to Lubuntu we should contribute
and rely on the community documentation for *Ubuntu instead of trying
to carve out our own little niche that will easily be out of date and
hard to maintain with fewer resources. (To answer your question my
suggestion would be to remove the java section altogether, if you HAVE
to have something, link to the main page for Java).

[0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java



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Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris