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For those not paying close attention, TLDP hasn't been updated in about 6 years, but much of it hasn't been updated in 15-20 years. Just keep using the Internet (ServerFault/Digital Ocean/ArchWiki/Ubuntu Wiki/etc) and man pages.
What tool can I use to simply create and manage text files like these? Something that can indent and wrap using spaces rather than rich formatting. https://tldp.org/HOWTO/text/DHCP
For those not paying close attention, TLDP hasn't been updated in about 6 years, but much of it hasn't been updated in 15-20 years. Just keep using the Internet (ServerFault/Digital Ocean/ArchWiki/Ubuntu Wiki/etc) and man pages.
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There have been some updates in the Github repo since then ( https://github.com/tLDP/LDP/commits/master ) but I don't notice any new content. It was a great resource for me decades ago, but now I understand TLDP to be mostly old and stale (and sometimes arguably bad, such as the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide) and generally better sources can be easily found.
As someone who's not particularly great at bash, I don't know enough to know if a guide I'm looking at is teaching old/bad methods. Are there any notably good references for modern bash?
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/index.htm...
These are general things that might seem too basic but there are some gems in there. Everyone, even really experienced users, can have gaps in their knowledge of basics: https://github.com/you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-GUI
Julie Evans doesn’t right just about Linux but when she writes a how-to she really puts the time in to do it well: https://jvns.ca/
DigitalOcean has the best set of how-to docs I know of for a web hosting company: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials
I have less experience with them but Linode seems to do a good job on how to docs too: https://www.linode.com/resources/
And there’s man pages and the like, too, but man pages can be a bit cumbersome for learning more than some options and basic use of a command.
Any other sites that people think are best for Linux in general, specialized areas like shells and scripting, distro specific sites, etc.? I’d save those sites and return to them first then do a web search if not enough there.
For those not paying close attention, TLDP hasn't been updated in about 6 years, but much of it hasn't been updated in 15-20 years. Just keep using the Internet (ServerFault/Digital Ocean/ArchWiki/Ubuntu Wiki/etc) and man pages.
But man pages are man pages, not HOWTOs and thus don’t tell you ... how to :)
This brings back some great memories. I learned so much from the HOWTOs, and I think they played a big part in getting me my first proper tech job. I just had to sit and figure it out, and the process of persevering through the mistakes and dead ends ultimately gave me a level of confidence around computers and technology in general which has been incredibly useful in work and in life.
I distinctly remember borrowing a copy of "Linux From Dummies" from the public library and then using it to learn how to use the Linux shell, back in the '00s. It even came with a CD of some extremely old version of Red Hat.
But back in the day, “Linux FOR Dummies” was quite popular.
Linux From Scratch (LFS) taught me the depths of Linux. TLDP taught me the breadth.
So I at least based it on m4 generated shell based build system scripts and my slackware package manager I wrote at that time. https://spkg.megous.com/
Moved to Arch Linux shortly after.