I agree that something needs to be done in respect to the LDP and GNU/Linux documentation in general. BSDs have fantastic documentation and I feel GNU/Linux as an ecosystem also deserves such. Although probably the most demanding, working on individual manpages for/with upstream projects would be the most profitable to everyone in the long-run. Finally, some level of technical language is needed. The user should be allowed to understand, not merely be informed :).
Best regards, Andy Mender On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Joost van Baal-Ilić < joostvb-debian-doc-2016050...@mdcc.cx> wrote: > 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 outdated resource; floppy disks are regularly mentioned, there are 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) > >
