2003
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The Linux Documentation Project
2003-05-20
TLDP Weekly News
New documents
Fresh@LDP
New documents this week:
After quite some struggle, here it is finally: the openMosix HOWTO, formerly known as the Mosix HOWTO, by Kris Buytaert.
An anonymous person wrote a document in Spanish explaining how to install the ICA Citrix client and use it with the popular Spanish PADRE program. Our colleagues from TLDP-ES made it available as the Padre-HOWTO.
Proposed new documents
Howard Shane sent in a proposal for a Scanner
HOWTO
Weldon Goree
proposed a HOWTO on what dual-booting and multi-booting are and
how to do them.
Submitted for review
Daniel Nofftz's announced that his
Athlon
Powersaving HOWTO is ready for review.
Updates
HOWTOs
After the problems were solved last week, a whole bunch of pending upgrades came through:
Anders Jensen-Urstad supplies us with v1.5 of the Game Server HOWTO and Peter Jay Salzman mailed v0.9.22 of the The Linux Gamers' HOWTO.
Alavoor Vasudevan sent in yet another update for the Kernel HOWTO, which is now at v5.7. He also moved the Vim Color Editor HOW-TO to DocBook.
The Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide v1.8, by Mendel Cooper.
Also by Peter Salzman: the Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO.
Skip Rye worked on v1.8 of the Linux Optical Disk HOWTO.
Svetoslav Slavtchev, one of the new TLDP authors, send in the first update to the XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO.
Saqib Ali sent in the DocBook XML/SGML Processing Using OpenJade HOWTO, v2.2.5.
Happenings in the LDP world
License on the LDP documents
Colin Watson, who maintains the Debian packages for LDP documents sent
in a mail indicating that the old manifesto boilerplate license
used on a number of LDP documents was considered non-free by Debian
legal. He sent in the note that the Debian doc-linux-html and
doc-linux-text packages will use the GNU GPL, which is permitted by the
clause 2. David
Lawyer however noted
that It's only requested (not required) that the author be contacted in
case of modifications which may not render the license non-free.
man pages
Rahul Sundaram presented his opinion
on man pages. He said that they cater to the expert who already
knows what s/he is dealing with and provided a few examples. Antony E.
Greene said that there are two different needs addressed
by tutorial or step-by-step instructions like the HOWTOs and a terse,
but comprehensive man on info page. Howard Shane and Machtelt Garrels
were of the opinion that the LDP should offer its services to improve
the quality of man pages but that would be a difficult task with the
resources at the disposal of LDP.
While on the thread, Greg Ferguson asked if people would be interested in a collection of man pages (filtered to HTML via man2html; browseable, etc.) on the LDP site.
During the course of the discussion, jdd
wondered if there was some sort of a locate_doc that could
detect automatically all the documentation available for an
application. People suggested scrollkeeper and
dwww from
the Debian project.
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