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Not an answer to why it is dead, but the Archlinux wiki, which offers decent replacement for the functional part of the traditional HOWTOs, have been around sin
by zaat 4y ago
Not an answer to why it is dead, but the Archlinux wiki, which offers decent replacement for the functional part of the traditional HOWTOs, have been around since 2005 and have established itself as a decent info source for Linux users at large, not just the arch initiates.
- worg 4y agoSecond ArchWik it's quite good and not tied to archlinux
- bombcar 4y agoYeah, that and the Gentoo wiki have gotten me past most major hurdles. I think another answer is that much of what is covered by the HowTos is now built into the distros themselves; there's no need to learn X Y and Z if you want to do T, as you just select the "LAMP STACK" option in the distro installer.
- jrmg 4y agoYeah - I just set up Gentoo for the first time, and the wiki is _excellent_. I had this preconception that Gentoo was ‘complicated’, but the excellent documentation has made everything easy (and I’m coming round to the opinion that Gentoo is actually easier because how it works is so ‘transparent’).
- bombcar 4y agoI found Gentoo much easier if you knew you were going to stray from the beaten path (e.g, custom kernel, weird library choices, etc). It's been surprisingly stable for me considering everything I throw at it, and much of what I learned has helped diagnose issues with other distros.
- herewulf 4y agoI've found the Gentoo wiki very helpful even back when I was running no Gentoo systems.
- smitty1e 4y agoThe Gentoo Wiki has helped in years past. One trove that is maintained => https://linuxfromscratch.org/ https://linuxfromscratch.org/
- ordu 4y agoProbably it is an answer. People gravitate to a distro offering them docs in their preferred style. And some of these people contribute to docs later in their preferred style. This process becomes self-enforcing at some point: the style is refined, the knowledge base grows, the community matures... It doesn't happen overnight, so it didn't happened in 90s. And one more reason for a late arrival: in 90s there were less people on Linux, they were not able to create all kinds of knowledge bases, so they resorted to a more achievable project of creating HOWTOs, which was meant to be good enough for everyone.