[Klug-general] outdated linux documentation

[James Morris]

Come to think of it, when I first started using Linux, the HOWTO's from
the Linux Documentation Project (which were available as Debian packages
on the install cds) were really helpful (especially as I did not have
web-access back then).

However for the past few years when I've been searching for documentation
for this or that, and have come across a HOWTO, they have been woefully
out of date. Perhaps the HOWTO's were comparable with Microsoft Help (as I
remember it) which was often pretty useless too.

A quick look at http://tldp.org/sorted_howtos_full.html shows a minority
are still being updated, or have been newly added.

Perhaps part of the problem arises from people's preference for blogs,
forums, making videos, and social networking. Which means you have to know
where to look for documentation, and know the signs of what is good and
bad documentation, which all comes down to experience.

James.