discuss: Internet discussion re LDP. Request someone take over my HOWTO's
Subject:
Re: Internet discussion re LDP. Request someone take over my HOWTO's
From:
David Ranch ####@####.####
Date:
16 Nov 2016 16:04:18 +0000
Message-Id: <3e81a6bd-af92-7593-3a03-79594125fab8@trinnet.net>
Hello David,
The key challenge I see these days is that Linux distributions have
become increasingly "proprietary" that it's difficult to write to a
distribution-agnostic way but keep the solution maintainable. One
perfect example of this is my IP Masquerade HOWTO. There are so many
different ways to store and load an IPTABLES ruleset across all the
different LInux distros. This fragmentation gave way to the rise of
distribution specific documentation for some of these areas.
Unfortunately, most of this documentation for say Ubuntu, Redhat, Arch,
etc. is specific to distribution but very thin and gives zero background
details.
Sure, an LDP document can document a lot of the generic technology areas
but it's a mountain of work to write, test, and maintain the
distribution specific stuff. Maybe strong collaboration with some of
the LInux distro providers would be warranted here where the LDP and
vendor documentation teams agree who does what and then link their
documentation sets together.
--David
On 11/15/2016 11:07 PM, David Lawyer wrote:
> 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.
