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