On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> I'll certainly consider that once the LINUX documentation is within a
> generation or two of the currently released software, rather than six
> or seven generations out of phase. It's too risky to use code that's
> not documented any better than that. It's worse than NO documents at
> all!
I'm not really sure which documentation you are referring to, but
http://www.linuxdoc.org/ generally contains up-to-date documentation for a
large number of things.
Documentation for stuff like 'tar' is also very well maintained, try
'info tar' or 'man tar' at the shell prompt sometime.
Certain Linux *distributions* are very bad about not packaging the latest
documentation available. I won't name them since they are among some of
the most popular.
If you are waiting on a Linux *book* to be up-to-date, you will be waiting
an eternity. By the time material is printed, at least 6 months has passed
since the author wrote it.
If all else fails, Use the source, Luke!
-Toth
Received on Sun Jan 20 2002 - 14:10:00 GMT