MOTD is a weekday learning capsule for Linux. Each edition takes one manual page, pulls ten things out of it, asks five questions about what it just said, and gives you one command to run. About ten minutes.
The corpus is 209 manual pages across
15 tracks — not a scrape of somebody's blog, but the
documentation already installed on every Linux machine. That is the point:
every claim MOTD makes can be checked with man on your own
box, offline, for as long as the machine exists.
Pages that cannot fill an edition are excluded rather
than padded. A four-line page like yes(1) is not a lesson.
Topics run in tier order — the first week at a terminal, then daily working knowledge, then administration — shuffled within each tier by a fixed hash. Once a date is pinned it does not move, so the topic announced ahead of time is the topic that publishes.
Every published command is read-only or confined to a scratch directory you create. The publisher refuses to ship an edition containing anything that writes outside it, installs packages, touches a device, or pipes the network into a shell.
MOTD is a weekday reading of one manual page already installed on your own
machine. Every statement is quoted from that page or from the GNU info
documentation beside it, and every edition names the command that shows you
the source.
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