discuss: Modernization/Re-Design of Website
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Modernization/Re-Design of Website
From:
Charles Curley ####@####.####
Date:
24 Apr 2011 02:47:00 +0100
Message-Id: <20110423194635.12dfa07f@yendi>
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:17:07 -0600
"paul.hendricksen" ####@####.#### wrote:
> We are all that is left of the “old-school” way of thought. Back in
> 1999-2000 it was very easy to go to TLDP and look up anything that we
> needed to use, maintain, and develop our, then current,
> distributions. But with the rise of the “more out of the box,”
> concepts like Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Red Hat the LDP is falling behind
> and is, quite frankly, very out dated.
>
> New users are using desktop based Linux distros, like Ubuntu, for the
> ease of use and in some cases might even have the same Linux distro
> installed as a server on a remote computer. Because all the
> documentation that they need for configuration is on the software’s
> web site, they don’t even look twice at the LDP.
Which brings up the question: has the LDP outlived its usefulness?
Would our talents and efforts be more usefully applied elsewhere?
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