From e5dde21de5ced4ca02d9bd99a0df5bef228889db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: appaji <> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:39:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added news etc. --- LDP/ldpwn/20050309.xml | 133 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) diff --git a/LDP/ldpwn/20050309.xml b/LDP/ldpwn/20050309.xml index 2055aaf5..d994d01a 100644 --- a/LDP/ldpwn/20050309.xml +++ b/LDP/ldpwn/20050309.xml @@ -11,35 +11,31 @@ The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News - - -New documents @ The LDP - - - - - -. - -. - -. - - - - - Documents submitted for review -. +Gareth Anderson would like to include the GNU Linux Command +Line Tools Summary document +http://www.karakas-online.de/gnu-linux-tools-summary/introduction.html which +he has been working on since more than two years, in The LDP collection. + -. +Coert wrote a Secure Internet for Small Office / Home Office +HOWTO. A draft version of the document is available at +http://www.cybcon.com/~coert/linux/siso/index.html. The HOWTO describes how to +bring up your own Firewall, Wireless Access Point and VPN Server on a single +board computer. It currently uses the Geode SC1100 and Atheros WiFi NIC, but +could easily be extended to include other hardware, drivers and services. + -. +Zouhir Hafidi wrote a HOWTO about setting up Linux and Windows +Terminal Services in Schools and would like to submit it to TLDP. A draft +version of the document is available from +http://math.univ-lille1.fr/~hafidi/terminal-services/ and your comments are +most welcome. @@ -51,11 +47,18 @@ -. +lists@mjhall.org proposed to write a Computational Linguistics +HOWTO. This HOWTO would briefly survey the major branches of contemporary +computational linguistics and the major types of linguistics software, and then +catalogue Linux software available in each category. An extensive bibliography +and list of resources such as websites and mailing lists would also included. +Some general advice would also be offered on system configuration for +linguistics work. Martin Wheeler and Rahul Sundaram were excited about the +idea. -. - -. +Mathieu Deschamps has offered to translate the Linuxbios guide +to English. If you were waiting for this document to be available in English, +this is some good news. @@ -66,11 +69,16 @@ -. +Version 1.6 (Last updated 20050301 Edition) of Bash Guide for +Beginners http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ by Machtelt +Garrels has minor problems corrected, more keywords, and info about new Bash +3.0. -. - -. +Version 1.17 (20050301 Edition) of Machtelt Garrels +"Introduction to Linux, A Hands on Guide" +http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/ has edits for lots of little details +that were outdated, several notes, and some more info about new apps has been +added. @@ -83,25 +91,36 @@ -News item title 1: +Mirrors +These are the latest additions to our list of mirrors: -News item 1 body. + + + http://ldp.mirror.nickstallman.net/ - hosted by Nick + Stallman in Kingston, Massachusetts and updated daily. + + + http://ldp.mirror1.wefixtech.co.uk/ - hosted by Tony + Dodd in Ashburn, VA, USA and updated every other day. + + + http://ldp.hosting-concepts.com - hosted by Peter in + Amsterdam, The Netherlands and updated daily. + + http://ldp.cherryfive.com - hosted by Daniel Prinsloo + in London, UK and updated weekly. + + -News item title 2: +Gerd Berget's report on The LDP -News item 2 body. - - - - - -News item title 3: - -News item 3 body. +Gerd Berget's report on The LDP is available for download from +http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/rapport.pdf However, the document has not yet been +translate to English. @@ -116,25 +135,21 @@ -Discussion topic title 1: +Modifiability of documentation and software -Discussion topic 1 body. - - - - - -Discussion topic title 2: - -Discussion topic 2 body. - - - - - -Discussion topic title 3: - -Discussion topic 3 body. +In a discussion thread concerning modifiability of documentation and +data, Rahul Sundaram commented that most people dont care about whether the +source code is modifiable but that, that doesn't mean we say we dont care about +Free or open source software. David Lawyer responded indicating that there is +a difference between software and documents. David said Software needs +to be free since it's relatively hard to write it and much of it is reusable. +But for documentation, the situation is a lot different. I've looked at a few +of our old documents that are out-of-date and they mostly need to be entirely +rewritten. This can be done even if the doc doesn't allow modification. Why? +Because one uses the info in the obsolete doc plus information in other docs to +write a new doc. Facts are not copyrighted. David was in favour of +modifiable documents, but not as stronly as Rahul was. An interesting +discussion ensued.