diff --git a/LDP/ldpwn/20050119.xml b/LDP/ldpwn/20050119.xml index 78502190..cf807ca5 100644 --- a/LDP/ldpwn/20050119.xml +++ b/LDP/ldpwn/20050119.xml @@ -1,176 +1,105 @@ - - - -
- - 2005 - 2 - The Linux Documentation Project - 2005-01-19 - The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News - - - - - New documents @ The LDP - - - - - - . - - . - - . - - - - - - - - Documents submitted for review - - - - . - - . - - . - - - - - - - - New document proposals - - - - . - - . - - . - - - - - - - Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides - - - - Ari Mäkelä published v2.0.29 of the Finnish HOWTO, with more on OpenOffice on Debian and th choice of fonts. - - The v1.3 of the Samba Authenticated Gateway, by Ricardo Alexandre Mattar, has extended information on how to update your firewall configuration as users connect, including a link to a script that spares you the work of implementing this feature yourself. - - Howard Shane announces new models and new drivers in v1.6 of the Webcam HOWTO. - Getting a bit old-fashioned but still wide-spread: IRC. In his HOWTO Frédéric L.W. Meunier describes the basics and available Linux applications. - Kurt Swendson asked to archive the existing version of the Beowulf HOWTO and to replace it with this completely revised document. - Peter Bieringer did a checkup of the IPv6 IPsec section in v0.48 of his Linux + IPv6 HOWTOBryan Henderson put something about the 2.6 kernels in his Module HOWTO and also added info about the dangers of unloading modules. - - - - - - - News in The LDP world - - - - - - Linux MIPS HOWTO: - - Ralf Bächle announced the replacement of the Linux MIPS HOWTO by a wiki. He is looking for advise on translation of the document. - - - - - - XML Editors and conversions: - - Saqib Ali is working on a list of XML editors categorized by WYSIWYG, WYSIWYM and Text based. Secondary categorization is done by deviding the editors in Freeware, OpenSource and commercial groups. - Recently we got a couple of documents written in OpenOffice, which needed to be converted to DocBook XML. There are a couple of possibilities to get there: - - First convert the file to HTML using OO features, then optionally run it through tidy and then through html2db. - There is a tool which is called OOo2dbk and that can eb downloaded here. - - - - - - News item title 3: - - News item 3 body. - - - - - - - - - Discussions on The LDP lists - - - - - - Discussion topic title 1: - - Discussion topic 1 body. - - - - - - Discussion topic title 2: - - Discussion topic 2 body. - - - - - - Discussion topic title 3: - - Discussion topic 3 body. - - - - - - - - - The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO - - The Linux Documentation Project - (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the - GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help TLDP, consider joining - discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org (a low volume discussion mailing - list). You can also send your suggestions to - feedback@en.tldp.org. - - The LDP Weekly News is compiled, edited and published by Machtelt Garrels - (Tille) and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag (Giri) with help from several other people. - To receive this newsletter weekly in your mailbox, subscribe to the - news-subscribe@en.tldp.org mailing list. Back issues are available at - http://tldp.org/ldpwn. - - Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the - community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events related - to free software documentation. Write to us at - feedback@en.tldp.org. - - - -
+ + + +
+ + 2005 + 2 & 3 + The Linux Documentation Project + 2005-01-19 + The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News + + + + +Documents submitted for review + + + +Prospective authors for The LDP are usually pointed to the excellent LDP Author Guide. However, the guide is very big and has a lot of details. David Laywer's Draft of very short Authors Guide is up for review, and intends to be a quick guide to new authors. + + + + + + +Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides + + + +Ari Mäkelä published v2.0.29 of the Finnish HOWTO, with more details on OpenOffice on Debian and the choice of fonts. + +The v1.3 of the Samba Authenticated Gateway, by Ricardo Alexandre Mattar, has extended information on how to update your firewall configuration as users connect, including a link to a script that takes the pain off you for implementing this feature. + +Howard Shane documents new models and drivers in v1.6 of the Webcam HOWTO. + +Getting a bit old-fashioned but still wide-spread: IRC. In his IRC HOWTO, Frédéric L.W. Meunier explains the basics and lists available Linux applications. + +Kurt Swendson asked us to archive the existing version of the Beowulf HOWTO, and replace it with a completely revised Beowulf-HOWTO. + +Peter Bieringer did a few grammatical correction and incorporated minor review comment in the IPv6 IPsec section for v0.48 of his Linux + IPv6 HOWTO. + +Bryan Henderson updated the example module for 2.6 kernel and mentions dmesg as a way to see kernel messages in his Module HOWTO and also added info about the dangers of unloading modules. There is a link to the LKMPG. + + + + + + +News in The LDP world + + + + + +Linux MIPS HOWTO + +Ralf Bächle announced the replacement of the Linux MIPS HOWTO by a wiki. He is looking for advise on translation of the document. + + + + + +XML Editors and conversions + +Saqib Ali is working on a list of XML editors categorized by WYSIWYG, WYSIWYM and Text based. Secondary categorization is done by deviding the editors in Freeware, OpenSource and commercial groups. + +Recently we got a couple of documents written in OpenOffice, which needed to be converted to DocBook XML. There are a couple of possibilities to get there: + + + First convert the file to HTML using OO features, then optionally run it through tidy and then through html2db. + There is a tool which is called OOo2dbk and that can be downloaded from http://www.indesko.com/sites/fr/telechargements/ooo2dbk___du_docbook/view. + + + + + + + + + +The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO + +The Linux Documentation Project +(TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the +GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help TLDP, consider joining +discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org (a low volume discussion mailing +list). You can also send your suggestions to +feedback@en.tldp.org. + +The LDP Weekly News is compiled, edited and published by Machtelt Garrels +(Tille) and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag (Giri) with help from several other people. +To receive this newsletter weekly in your mailbox, subscribe to the +news-subscribe@en.tldp.org mailing list. Back issues are available at +http://tldp.org/ldpwn. + +Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the +community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events related +to free software documentation. Write to us at +feedback@en.tldp.org. + + + +