200323The Linux Documentation Project2003-09-30The Linux Documentation Project Weekly NewsNew documentsFresh@LDPAnnouncing the Sybase ASE HOWTO v1.0 by Kian Spongsveen. The full name for this document is the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise/SQL Server HOWTO; it describes the installation and basic usage of this database on the Linux platform.If privacy is an issue for you, check out our second new document this week: the Encrypted Root Filesystem HOWTO by Christophe Devine.Submitted for reviewPramode C.E. sent in a document entitled Linux Kernel Commentary and awaits your remarks.Scot W. Stevenson sent in his Mock
Mainframe Mini-HOWTO, which would be A brief description
of a standard way to set up and work with a computer network for a small
group of people that is inexpensive to build, easy to administer, and
relatively safe. It is written for users who might not be completely
familiar with all of the concepts involved. Scott has requested
for comments on this documentMachtelt Garrels submitted the LDAP Operations / Management
HOWTO and welcomes any comments you may have.UpdatesHOWTOsWe received update v2.19 of David Lawyer's Serial HOWTO.Hvard Stranden provided us with v1.3.1 of his ATI R200 + XFree86 4.x mini-HOWTO.The Linux User Group HOWTO by Rick Moen is now at v1.6.8.Svetoslav Slavtchev's XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO was updated to v1.2.1.Alavoor Vasudevan sent in v6.9 of the Kernel HOWTO.David S. Lawyer's Text-Terminal-HOWTO
is now at v1.32GuidesThe Windows+BSD+Linux
Installation Guide by Subhasish Ghosh has been updated to
v1.1.Interview - Sergiusz PawlowiczSergiusz Pawlowicz (or Serek as a few people call him) has been
into Linux and Free Software ever since 1994, almost ten years. For nearly as long, he has been one of the thriving forces behind the Polish translation effort. When he's not administering our mailing-lists or the CVS, he manages his company, .Q: So, Sergiusz, after all this time, do you remember how you got involved with TLDP?A: I wrote Paul Jones, that I would like to help with LDP,
and I also proposed to switch our document management system to CVS. Because I'm also
into the development of the PLD Linux Distro, I was very experienced in using versioning systems in big scale.
As you can see, my proposition was accepted :-)
Q: Apart from TLDP and PLD, you're involved in a number of other Open Source projects: the Free Software Foundation, you translate for the GNU project, ... And I know from my own experience that you take great care and that people can rely on you. Do you ever take a day off?A: Yeah, my girlfriend is rather unhappy. It is a real problem. But community service is stronger than me. It is fascinating
when you have a real influence on political and sociological
aspects of informatics.Q: Is there anything you want to share with the world that you cannot add to one of the Open Source projects you are involved with, such as the Polish Cooking HOWTO, maybe, or the Polish Traditional Woodwork FAQ? This is your chance to have your deepest wish heard ;-)A: Yeah - HOWTO to stand up and turn off TV. It really gives me the creeps to see that so many people are in an idle state and just watch television. Without adding anything to society, while listening to information prepared
by Public Relations in big concerns, they are empty-headed.Q: In your opinion, what makes TLDP so interesting?A: The most interesting thing in TLDP is that everyone can join us!Q: How do you say If all else fails, read the HOWTO in Polish?A: Hehe, you won't believe how strange it sounds, I better not answer this one ;-)Happenings in the LDP worldSoftware patents in EuropeSince TLDP provides documentation on free software, a lot of our readers have been concerned about the pushing of software patents in Europe lately. Thanks to all of you who wrote to their representatives in the European Parliament, the worst case scenario was avoided. Because of this good news, a lot of Open Source sites have been re-opened last week. However, the decision has only been postponed, and danger of restriction is still pending. Read more at .LDP documentation formatOnce in a while, we are reminded of the fact that the LDP caters
to the needs of all the people. The usefulness of the format and clean
design used by LDP
for publishing various HOWTOs has come up yet again in
this mail from David Lawyer and this
one from Machtelt Garrels.Search capability for XML docs using LuceneSaqib Ali was working on adding search capabilities to an
application that he was working on and wondered
if there would any interest if in indexing all TLDP XML documents using
Lucene. He already has an implementation of cocoon running to present
Docbook XML documents as at Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO
and is planning to add the indexing and search part using Lucene.Feedback and ContributionsThe Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing
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