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+ + 2005 + 37, 38, 39 & 40 + The Linux Documentation Project + 2005-11-01 + The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News + + + +News in The LDP world + + + + + +Volunteer for the mirror checkup + +Machtelt Garrels is looking for a volunteer to do the mirrors +checkup. Things to do are: + + + + Check timestamp on all mirrors + (http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html), all URLs should have a + timestamp.txt in the top-level directory. + + Contact the maintainers of mirrors that are not up to + date, ask if they plan to correct the situation. + + Create a list of mirrors that can not be contacted at + all, those will be removed from + http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html + + + +Get in touch with Tille if you are interested. + + + + + + + + +Discussions on The LDP lists + + + + + +LDP Manifesto "Overview" change + +David Lawyer looked at what he had drafted in 2001 for the +"Overview" part of the Manifesto and edited it a little to reflect the +current situation . The revised version is available for comment and David posted a +verson asking if discuss list is OK with it. + + + + + +AsciiDoc and DocBook + +Scot Stevenson started started a discussion on why the LDP should start supporting AsciiDoc +as one of the acceptable formats. Since Scot talked about LinuxDoc, +David Lawyer put down his thoughts on the issue and said that the LDP +could revive LinuxDoc. + + + + + +LDP or TLDP + +David Lawyer, while discussing the draft of the Introduction to +the LDP Manifesto, said we did change was our url from +linuxdoc.org to tldp.org. But the old url still works (I just tried +it). So I'm in favor of continuing to use LDP and to not object if +people call us TLDP. LDP has a lot of name recognition in printed +books. If you look at our doc, there's several times more mention of +LDP than TLDP. So it's not too late to go back to LDP. LDP is also +used a lot on our website along with TLDP. Several people + were in favour of using LDP and Guylhem P. Aznar said that tldp.org +was choosen because ldp.org was not available. + + + + + +Alex Nordstrom, the maintainer of the Documentation Workgroup of +the Linux Society of Sweden, sent in a mail to the discuss list outlining the process of translating a document from the Linux +Documentation Project (LDP) for the Linux Society of Sweden and +requested comments on the translation effort workflow. + + + + + + + + + +Documents submitted for review + + + +Rohit Agarwal submitted a How To for +libdc1394, the document discusses libdc1394 library that is used +for IEEE1394 camera interfacing. + + + + + + + +New document proposals + + + +. + +. + +. + + + + + + +Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides + + + +Scot W. Stevenson's Mock Mainframe +Mini-HOWTO at v1.2. + +Werner Heuser's Linux Infrared +HOWTO. In version 3.7 technical and a language review have been +done. Numerous bugs have been fixed and many URLs have been updated. +Some obsolete stuff has been removed. Some documentation about +Linux/IrDA with kernel 2.6 has been added (but there is still work to +do). + +Miroslav "Misko" Skoric sent in updates to the FBB Packet-radio BBS +mini-HOWTO (v1.36), the LILO mini-HOWTO (v3.26) +and the Linux+WindowsNT +mini-HOWTO (v2.25). + +Peter Bieringer's Linux IPv6 HOWTO +is now at v0.49. The new revision adds configuration hints for DHCPv6 +and has broken URL cleanups. + +Avi Alkalay sent in his Managing Accurate Date +and Time HOWTO. v2005-10-12 of the document moves the Brazil +zic file out and has been updated. + +Mendel Cooper's Advanced +Bash-Scripting Guide at v3.7 is a bugfix update and adds some +minor material. + +David S. Lawyer's Howtos-with-LinuxDoc-mini-HOWTO +v0.05. + +Rob van der Putten's Leased line Mini HOWTO +now at v2.3b7 has information about additional PPPD options and routing. + + +Charles Curley's Linux +Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO is at v2.0. The new version +has notes for Fedora Core 4. Notes for older versions of FC and Red Hat +have been removed. There are changes in the writeup and scripts reflect +using Knoppix instead of tomsrtbt. A few scripts have been changed so +that long lines don't fall off the right side of printed pages. + + + + + + + +Mirror information update + +The following are the latest additions to our list of mirrors: + + + + maintained by +Wessel Sandkuyl in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and is hosted in a +multi-homed datacentre just under Schiphol. The mirror is updated +daily. + + maintained by +dmitri@gnu.org, knight@uportal.ru in Moscow, Russia and updated daily. + + + maintained by Son +Nguyen in Tampa, FL, USA and update daily. + + maintained by +Apostolos (Greek HOWTOs maintainer) in Athens, Greece and updated daily. + + + maintained +by Scott Braynard in NJ, USA and updated daily. + + maintained +by Jeremiah Tieman in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and updated twice every +day. + + + + + + +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 our low volume discussion mailing list +discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org. 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. 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