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The Linux Documentation Project
2003-05-27
TLDP Weekly News
LDP guides
When talking about TLDP, people often forget about the
Guides section. Check out our collection of the
longer, in-depth
documents!
New documents
Fresh@LDP
There were no 1.0s announced by Greg this week, however our Spanish colleagues added a document titled Más Allá de Linux From Scratch, which is a continuation of the Linux From Scratch guide, including support for X, sound, printers and more.
Proposed new documents
Guylhem Aznar is thinking about a FAQ on Using the keypad under X and
has requested
information on certain problems that people seem to face.
Updates
HOWTOs
We received updates for the following HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs:
The Connecting X Terminals to Linux Mini-HOWTO v1.2 by Salvador J. Peralta
David Horton sent in v1.1 of the Pocket Linux Guide.
A dot-oh, but it's v2.0 of the Linux 2.4 SCSI subsystem HOWTO, by Douglas Gilbert.
Svetoslav Slavtchev is still polishing the XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO, remember, the new HOWTO covering the connection of multiple monitors, soundcards, keyboards etc. to one server.
Happenings in the LDP world
Online editor for DocBook
Stein Gjoen posted a
URL to his LDP HOWTO
Generator. Nicolas Chauvat however, said that doing something
similar in PHP would be
re-inventing the wheel and pointed the list to demo.plone.org and the Archetypes
documentation to get started.
Elsewhere, David Merrill posted an update to wt2db (WikiText to DB) and
announced that he was getting back to work on Lampadas. Nicolas Chauvat would
be updating him with the things that have moved forward since
David was last involved.
DFSG analysis of default LDP license
Since many of the mini-HOWTOs are under the default LDP license, Branden
Robinson subjected the default LDP license to a Debian Free Software
Guidelines analysis
and proposed several changes to it. People further discussed the license
and the changes on the debian-legal mailing
list.
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LDP Weekly News is edited by
Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
with help from several other people.