Bug#864037: "If You Are New to Unix" should point to existing and non-ancient documentation
Control: tags -1 + pending
Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: src:installation-guide
> Severity: normal
>
> 8.2. If You Are New to Unix
>
> If you are new to Unix, you probably should go out and buy some books and do
> some reading. A lot of valuable information can also be found in the Debian
> Reference. This list of Unix FAQs contains a number of UseNet documents
> which provide a nice historical reference.
>
> Linux is an implementation of Unix. The Linux Documentation Project (LDP)
> collects a number of HOWTOs and online books relating to Linux. Most of these
> documents can be installed locally; just install the doc-linux-html package
> (HTML versions) or the doc-linux-text package (ASCII versions), then look in
> /usr/share/doc/HOWTO. International versions of the LDP HOWTOs are also
> available as Debian packages.
>
>
> The completely outdated doc-linux documents were not in any stable
> release after squeeze, and Unix FAQs from the last millenium are
> also not a good introduction.
>
> This section should be merged with a reviewed version of
> "8.4. Further Reading and Information".
Fixed in
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-guide/commit/d83234bab28045fcef28738089de42dfffdb8299
Tagging this bug as pending.
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