discuss: Internet discussion re LDP. Request someone take over my HOWTO's
Subject:
Internet discussion re LDP. Request someone take over my HOWTO's
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
16 Nov 2016 07:07:22 +0000
Message-Id: <20161116070737.GA18441@daveslinux>
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4zqinn/taking_a_second_look_at_the_linux_documentation/#content
Taking a Second Look at the Linux Documentation Project:
Says that it's dead, etc. and asks for volunteers to revive it. 22
comments but many short (several words). Think 90% should be discarded,
etc. Opposed to Docbook in favor of ascii-doc, etc. They don't seem to
understand the difficulty of the work needed.
I'd like to request that someone take over my HOWTO's before I die: Modem,
Text-Terminal, Serial Port, and PnP. These topics are not obsolete but need
expanding and updating. The Text-Terminal was written mostly for real
terminals and doesn't go into details about the emulated terminals like
X-term and the Linux (text) Console. It should. The new info on modems
is that the modern PCI-E bus can't be used for Linux because no one makes
a linux-compatible modem card for it. Support for modems in Linux has
never been worse and some people (and places) still need them. I'm Serial
ports are widely used for embedded systems. PnP needs a major revision
and name change.
I'm still in fair health but had a mini-stroke a couple of years ago where
I collapsed on the sidewalk and thus may drop dead at any time.
David Lawyer
