discuss: 2003 System Administrator's Guide out of date
Subject:
Re: 2003 System Administrator's Guide out of date
From:
Tabatha Marshall ####@####.####
Date:
18 Dec 2003 02:23:13 -0000
Message-Id: <1071714164.1113.60.camel@mysticchild>
Hi David,
Just a quick word to let you know I've discussed this already with Alex
Weeks. He's just recently taken over as maintainer of the document, and
we wanted to reflect that. He's currently working on doing some
extensive updates to it, and they should be available in the new year.
We wanted to show the new maintainer, and I've cc'd Alex so that he can
consider your feedback while he makes his changes.
Tab
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 16:05, David Lawyer wrote:
> I just spent several minutes reviewing the 2003 update of this guide.
> Unfortunately, it seems to be very much out of date. To review it, I
> read almost none of it but instead searched for terms that today's
> system administrators need to know about. I found almost none of these
> topics covered. By the way, is this quick method of review mentioned in
> the Review guide?
>
> Some of the things I serched for were: lspci, hdparm, symlinks, devfs,
> ext3. Only ext3 was found. But, the Debian reference (as a Debian
> package) coverers them all except for the symlinks program (the term
> "symlinks" was mentioned several times, however).
>
> Thus I have to conclude that this LDP guide is still out of date and
> needs to be rewritten. I compared it a little to the old. The people
> that revised it just used the old outline and added some to that. But
> there are new developments that fall outside the scope of the old
> outline so an entirely new outline is needed. This wasn't done.
>
> David Lawyer
>
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