[Klug-general] outdated linux documentation

[Dan Attwood]

I've just been flicking through the new documentation that's going to ship
with ubuntu lucid and it's excellent - albeit very much aimed at users.



On 22 March 2010 11:44, James Morris <james at jwm-art.net> wrote:

>
> 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 out of date.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.
>
>
>
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