discuss: Modernization/Re-Design of Website
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Re: [discuss] Modernization/Re-Design of Website
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24 Apr 2011 03:06:38 +0100
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Yes, it's current state is unuseful and no, it needs TLC. I think it
serves a purpose but needs to be updated and regularly maintained.
Enough support and work, we can bring it back to life.
-Paul
On Apr 23, 2011, at 19:47, Charles Curley
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> 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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