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