discuss: small demo page
Subject:
Re: small demo page
From:
David Horton ####@####.####
Date:
19 Aug 2005 22:58:08 -0000
Message-Id: <430663FC.7010401@speakeasy.net>
Saqib Ali wrote:
>>but the real question is: do the tldp need a new way to
>>communicate between users and authors. I think personnaly
>>that there is a great lack of comms here, but I know also,
>>there is much documentation out of the ldp, now, and often
>>more up to date. tldp may be silently dying...
>
> i personally think TLDP as it currently exist should now retire. Most
> of the HOWTOs (including mine) are not needed anymore, since the linux
> distros and other opensource apps have started producing excellent
> documentation. Check out the documentation produced by RedHat. It is
> excellent. Same goes for Apache.
Here is one small example in favor of TLDP:
BASH comes with excellent documentation produced by GNU.
TLDP has a document called "The Advanced BASH Scripting Guide".
The information contained in both docs is basically the same, but if
someone asked me, "how do I write a shell script?" I would tell them to
read The Advanced BASH Scripting Guide. The ABS Guide is presented in a
way that is far easier for a newbie to digest.
The DNS-HOWTO is another good example. There are probably more.
Dave
