From a17f9e7f1522192c45873eaa5d2c264f9b87597f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: appaji <> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 17:19:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Lots of updates, ispell, woody render, ready to publish --- LDP/ldpwn/20031105.xml | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) diff --git a/LDP/ldpwn/20031105.xml b/LDP/ldpwn/20031105.xml index 0ad1fff8..465044f7 100644 --- a/LDP/ldpwn/20031105.xml +++ b/LDP/ldpwn/20031105.xml @@ -13,12 +13,6 @@ New documents - - Fresh@LDP - -Maybe not that fresh, but here it is finally in one-dot-oh!: the Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO, by Peter Jay Salzman. - - Proposed new documents @@ -27,19 +21,14 @@ Niko Sauer has written some interesting things about USB memory sticks and would like to know what you think about it. +Lars Strand proposed +a Mobile IPv6 HOWTO. A draft version is available at http://www.gnist.org/~lars/work/insc/mipv6/. + - -Submitted for review - - - -Jean-Daniel Dodin's Partition-Rescue HOWTO is being converted to docbook and the new version will be published under the LGPL. - - -Everything else submitted for review has already been or is being processed. - @@ -50,17 +39,25 @@ -After the fashion of the Wie werde ich Hacker HOWTO (Babelfish might be required), TLDP has its own HOWTO-become-a-guru doc, the Linux Reading List HOWTO. This list is what Eric Steven Raymond considers to be essential reading if you want to become a UNIX/Linux programmer. I admire his choice of starting off with the New Hacker's Dictionary ;-) The list is revision v2.1 now. +Here it is in one-dot-oh!: the Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO, by Peter Jay Salzman. -Alavoor Vasudevan's C-C++ Beautifier HOWTO v16.7 got accepted. He also tries to keep the Linux Kernel HOWTO up to date, which, we imagine, isn't an easy job. In other words, here too, your constant feedback is needed. Have a go at it, you needn't be a specialist. Really :) +After the fashion of the Wie werde ich Hacker HOWTO (Babelfish might be required), TLDP has its own HOWTO-become-a-guru doc, the Linux Reading List HOWTO. This list is what Eric Steven Raymond considers to be essential reading if you want to become a UNIX/Linux programmer. The list is revision v2.1 now. + +Alavoor Vasudevan's C-C++ Beautifier +HOWTO v16.7. He also tries to keep the Linux Kernel HOWTO up +to date. He sent in an update to his Vim Color Editor HOW-TO. Did you know that Miroslav Misko Skoric's FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO contains a section on how to communicate with LinFBB in Serbian? Check it out, preferably in the latest version, 1.26. As usual, Miroslav's updates come in threes: you also get the LILO mini-HOWTO, v3.15, and the Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO, v2.15. -Rick Moen found some more interesting sources of Linux information and listed them in v1.7.3 of his Linux User Group HOWTO -Alavoor Vasudevan documented another of our great Open Source products, ported to just about any system, by the way, so if you thought Linux wasn't the thing for you, at least try our fantastic visual editor, Improved, aka vIm on your inferior\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h alternative operating system. You can't go wrong with Alavoor's Vim Color Editor HOW-TO. -. +Rick Moen found some more interesting sources of Linux information and listed them in v1.7.3 of his Linux User Group HOWTO + +Jean-Daniel Dodin's Partition-Rescue +HOWTO has been converted to docbook and the new version is under the LGPL. @@ -78,49 +75,67 @@ Happenings in the LDP world -. - TLDP-ES/LuCAS unreachable -patatipatata now back online. +Ismael Olea sent in an update telling us that the Spanish LDP folks are down because of a disk failure and +they are working on fixing it. -Discussion Summary 2 +LDP author tools RPM packages -. +Rodolfo J. Paiz summarized +his findings on, what packages form parts of the authoring tools RPM +packages on his RedHat 9 based system. This is his package +list descriptions page. On a Debian GNU/Linux based system, the +packages that provide for these capabilities can be installed from the +linuxdoc-tools and the docbook-utils Debian packages. -News Item 1 +Linux+XFS HOWTO maintenance -. +Russel Ingram, the maintainer for the Linux+XFS HOWTO feels that +the document is out of its useful life as several linux distributions +offer XFS at installation time. He plans to move the document to the +unmaintained section of the HOWTOs and welcomes anyone who feels they +can turn this back into an up to date and useful document. Contact +Russel at ringram at gargoylecc.com if you are interested. + + +Linux SAG guide maintenance + +Alex Weeks would be maintaining the Linux System Administrator +Guide for novices., taking it over from Stephen Stafford. 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