From 665dd11d0e333d9ef99a6f74144d099683ff5532 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: appaji <> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 19:10:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Compiled all stuff from the mailing lists --- LDP/ldpwn/20041103.xml | 127 ++++++++++++----------------------------- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-) diff --git a/LDP/ldpwn/20041103.xml b/LDP/ldpwn/20041103.xml index a75f2df5..bac62d43 100644 --- a/LDP/ldpwn/20041103.xml +++ b/LDP/ldpwn/20041103.xml @@ -11,51 +11,44 @@ The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News - - -New documents @ The LDP - - - - - -. - -. - -. - - - - - - - -Documents submitted for review - - - -. - -. - -. - - - - - New document proposals -. +Matt Barnes would like to start a Linux Documentation - Audio +Video project. The project aims to convert The LDP documents to wave and mp3 +format. The goal of this exercise is to show that it can be done, and that it +should be done. The intent is to allow someone to download a media file into a +media player and listen to the information rather than always having to read it +and possibly stream them over the internet. Contact Matthew S Barnes (mbarnes +at bfinity dot net) if you have more ideas. -. +iSCSI-Linux HOWTO: iSCSI is becoming more popular, +particularly on Linux. Ben Rockwood was bothered by the massive lack of +documentation avalible and wrote his own, titled "A Quick Guide to iSCSI on +Linux" (http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/iscsi/index.html). +The document is currently considered as the manual for the iSCSI Enterprise +Target project (http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/) and is on of the popular +guides to iSCSI on the net. Ben intends to update the document and +submit it to The LDP for inclusion as a HOWTO rather than maintain it on his own +site as a paper. -. +Ben Rockwood noticed that the Benchmark HOWTO hasn't been updated since 1997. The unmatinained list shows a new maintainer for the doc, but an email to him got a failed response from the mail server. Ben is of the opinion that the document could be a bit more heavy on disk subsystems. Currently the document is geared towards general systems performance. Ben was wondering if he should start a new Disk-Benchmarking HOWTO and would like your input. Email benr@cuddletech.com + +German SMIL tutorial on Linux: The Computing Center of the +University of Kassel produced a SMIL introduction to Linux (around 4 hours of +video, with subtitles in German and some accompanying figures). Andreas +Matthias wrote in to offer this to The LDP for integration into The LDP but did +not find any support for non-textual formats in. The (not yet sufficiently +polished product) is at http://www.uni-kassel.de/hrz/anwendungen/matthias/unix-kurs/online. +He was wondering if someone who understands German and has some talent in +layouting descritpive graphics would help them to complete the project. Please +contact matthias@hrz.uni-kassel.de if you would like to offer help. + @@ -66,11 +59,7 @@ -. - -. - -. +Avi Alkalay's HOWTO for Managing Accurate Date and Time (The TimePrecision-HOWTO) has been updated to v1.0.8. The new version has been translated to Hungarian. The section on why we need a precise clock and the section on chrony have been updated. @@ -83,58 +72,12 @@ -News item title 1: - -News item 1 body. - - - - - -News item title 2: - -News item 2 body. - - - - - -News item title 3: - -News item 3 body. - - - - - - - - -Discussions on The LDP lists +Mirrors Information - - - -Discussion topic title 1: - -Discussion topic 1 body. - - - - - -Discussion topic title 2: - -Discussion topic 2 body. - - - - - -Discussion topic title 3: - -Discussion topic 3 body. +Timothy Anderson wrote to tell us that his TLDP mirror URL has been changed from http://ldp.mirrors.tails.org.ru/ to http://ldp.mirrors.prettysamy.org.ru/. +Alexandru Bradescu-Popa from Romania is maintaining a copy of TLDP. The mirror is located at http://www.alexbp.ro/ldp (physical location in Bucharest, Romania) and is updated daily. +