Hi, On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 04:53:30PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 11:54:58AM +0100, Tom M wrote: > > > > The Linux Documentation Project [1] is mentioned in Debian's docs, often as > > the > > only source of general GNU/Linux docs. As far as I can see, it is largely an > > outdated resource; floppy disks are regularly mentioned, there are links to > > software tarballs, etc. In fact, none of the "most popular Linux documents > > and manuals" [2] have seen updates in the last 13 years, some as many as 20. > > (And they are 2 clicks from the front page!) I don't think we are doing > > anyone > > a favour by mentioning these, and should consider other sources. > > > > -- > > Tom M > > > > [1] http://www.tldp.org/ > > [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/ "Manuals for GNU/Linux in general" > > TLDP is _just_ in the first steps of starting activity again after some years > of minimal axctivity. > > If they do seem to get anything back together, we can use it. Unfortunately, > they are still arguing document formats as often as writing / updating > documents or so it seems.
http://www.tldp.org/sorted_howtos_full.html shows: Since 2013 there have been not more than 2 new releases of all TLDP howto's. I don't think we should hold our breath now, and imho we should remove references to obsolete TLDP-documents. Bye, Joost -- our thing was we’re gonna do exactly what’s not on the radio James ‟J Dilla / Jay Dee” Dewitt Yancey (★ Feb 8, 1974, Detroit - † Feb 10, 2006, LA)
