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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.

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I've found Digital Ocean and Archwiki especially to be incredible resources

The Gentoo wiki is good too (for any distro, just adapt to your needs).

But man pages are man pages, not HOWTOs and thus don’t tell you ... how to :)

This is often true, but many man pages have a pretty good examples section. Sometimes these are good enough, and are at least worth checking for.

I have to confess, I use man pages for a quick thing I want to know such as options. For how to, man pages aren’t structured to teach step by step like a how to. A how to is like a tutorial or instruction manual and I think man pages are like reference books.

I was going to say... some of these are so dated. I haven’t thought about LILO for 15 years or so.

I had the same thought. The first HOWTO I looked at was encrypted root FS and contains sections for configuration of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. Just slightly old.

I was pleasantly reminded of the advances that 2.6 brought, however.

I have been configuring LILO... last week, after having installed Debian 3.3 on a Pentium 75 ISA-based laptop.

Admittedly, this does not happen every other day, but if like me you like to play with old computers these websites (and usenet archives, old FTP sites [and those are disappearing too fast], etc.) are a treasure trove.

I have recently ported Doom to a very old platform, SCO Xenix. That was only possible thanks to SCO leaving 30 years old FAQ and info on their website...

Do you know why it was abandoned?

Internet and Google. Seriously.

I haven't looked, but I imagine a lot of info is now dated. I remember reading HOWTOs about topics like how to set up dial-up and edit XF86Config.

I did some digging. There are still people working on it, but the updates aren't going to the front page. All the work seems to be buried in random e-mails on multiple mailing lists, and this GitHub repo https://github.com/tldp

I think the one or two people who are still working on it have been abandoned and need our support. I think if we can find who has access to the web servers, we could convince them to let volunteers put a fresh coat of paint on it and start publishing some new articles with a lower barrier to entry.

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