From a08fa1ff48ce25196969d01962dd10c6875b2cf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: appaji <> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 04:33:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Plenty of news added --- LDP/ldpwn/20050223.xml | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/LDP/ldpwn/20050223.xml b/LDP/ldpwn/20050223.xml index 20a0414c..893ef3fd 100644 --- a/LDP/ldpwn/20050223.xml +++ b/LDP/ldpwn/20050223.xml @@ -51,7 +51,15 @@ -. +Alex Hudson proposed to write a Self-certifying File System +(SFS) HOWTO. SFS is a network filesystem that makes NFS exports securely +available via the internet. It is a global filesystem, and works on a variety +of free software and non-free software operating systems. This is not to be +confused with the SFS mentioned in the Filesystems HOWTO. Although it runs +over NFS, SFS is a system of sufficient complexity to warrant its own +documentation. The SFS already have documentation, but it is quite technical +and written in quite terse language, hence Alex proposed to write a HOWTO on +this subject. . @@ -72,14 +80,16 @@ Emma Jane Hogbin added new XML editors in the Author Guide v4.6, as well as information about DocBook-capable word processors. There is also more documentation on converting other formats to DocBook. -Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian and Ori Pomerantz updated the Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide kernel v2.6. +Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian and Ori Pomerantz updated the Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide kernel to version 2.6.1. Adrain Offerman's MMBase Installation HOWTO v0.3.2 has lots of new sections, including detailed instructions on how to set up the latest Java Platform from Sun and how to install multiple Tomcat versions. - + Claudio Cattazzio of the Italian LDP effort updated us that the following documents have been translated to Italian: + + Bzip2 mini-HOWTO (translation by Gerardo Di Iorio and revision by Claudio Cattazzo) http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bzip2.html @@ -115,11 +125,12 @@ url="http://it.tldp.org/guide/abs/index.html">http://it.tldp.org/guide/abs/index revision by Giuseppe Briotti) http://it.tldp.org/lfs/5.1.1/ -Linux From Scratch 6.0 (translation by the ILDP-LFS Team: -http://ildp.pluto.it/lfs/) Linux From Scratch 6.0 (translation by the ILDP-LFS Team) +http://it.tldp.org/lfs/6.0/ + @@ -143,23 +154,49 @@ url="http://it.tldp.org/lfs/6.0/">http://it.tldp.org/lfs/6.0/, in Chisinau, Moldavia, by Raileanu Grigore. -Machtelt Garrels conducted a check of the mirrors and updated the list. Over 300 official mirrors were checked for accurate and up-to-date display of the main site. 97 mirrors were unavailable, out of date or did not display the correct content. Two weeks after contacting the maintainers of those mirrors, almost half of these cases could be resolved. The other half get two weeks more to correct the errors. If they have not rectified the situation by then, those mirrors will disappear from the list. Currently, the list has 215 approved mirrors; for 65 mirrors the approval is pending. +Machtelt Garrels conducted a check of the mirrors and updated the mirrors list. Over 300 official mirrors were checked for accuracy and up-to-date mirroring of the primary site. 97 mirrors were unavailable, out-of-date or did not display the correct content. Two weeks after contacting the maintainers of those mirrors, almost half of these cases could be resolved. The other half get two weeks more to correct the errors. If they have not rectified the situation by then, they will be removed from the mirror list. Currently, the list has 215 approved mirrors; for 65 mirrors the approval is pending. -News item title 2: +Draft of very short Authors Guide -News item 2 body. +David Lawyer wrote a very short Authors Guide titled "Writing a LDP Document". The LDP Authors Guide is a much bigger version with detailed information but the current document is short but useful and easy to comprehend. The draft with comments from others is available at http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:sss:8330:200501:llglikfdoinhhhoahfom. -News item title 3: +TLDP and Librarian Science -News item 3 body. +The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) and the Faculty of Journalism, +Library and Information Science at Oslo University College have joined +forces in an effort to improve the reader experience of the TLDP document +archive. + +For more than 10 years TLDP has authored and collected an ever increasing +number of documents. These have been filed in an equally growing document +structure that has shown itself to be less than optimal. An overhaul was +recognised to be overdue and this time it was decided not to "go it alone" +but rather contact the experts on this field: the library and information +scientists. + +Oslo University College accepted the invitation from TLDP and soon Gerd +Berget decided to do a professional job of determining an efficient set of +categories as part of a Master's Degree study in library and information +science. The initial set of categories is available at http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:8391:200502:jbdbakjaacfndkmflfhi. +But the report itself, being over 100 pages, will take a while to be translated +to english. + +For more information contact: + + +Tor Arne Dahl, Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science, E-mail: Tor-Arne.Dahl(at)jbi.hio.no +Gerd Berget, Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science, E-mail: gerdberget(at)yahoo.no +Stein Gjoen, TLDP, E-mail: sgjoen(at)mail.nyx.net +