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The Linux Documentation Project
2003-10-15
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
New documents
Fresh@LDP
The The Mock Mainframe Mini-HOWTO by Scot W. Stevenson is a brief description of a standard way to set up and work with a computer network for a small group of people. The goals are low build costs, ease of administration and relative safety. The document requires no extraordinary background, specific terminology is explained as the author goes along.
Eric S. Raymond did a complete rewrite of the UPS HOWTO. An Uninterruptable Power Supply is the box that will keep your hardware running when the conventional power network is in trouble. Worried about power outages? If you have Linux, a UPS and this HOWTO, you'll feel much better.
Proposed new documents
A couple of propositions from the feedback mailinglist, but no authors found for them yet:
A Multi:Multi NAT HOWTO
A Quail + Vpopmail + MySQL HOWTO
Apart from that ...
Manoj Warrier proposed
a Scientific computing with
free software on GNU-Linux HOWTO.
Thomas MIGLINCI proposed
a HOWTO dealing with the Web tablet from Siemens: The SIMpad
HOWTO.
Updates
HOWTOs
We were lagging behind a bit, lots of pending submissions, so here are the updates published this week:
Ian Ward's Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO, v1.2.
Miroslav Misko
Skoric's FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO, v1.25, the Lilo mini-HOWTO and the Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO.
Daniel Nofftz's v1.1 of the Athlon Powersaving HOWTO contains a lot of new information and links.
David Braun's Disk Encryption HOWTO v1.2 contains Gentoo instructions.
V1.6.9 of the Linux User Group HOWTO by Rick Moen has some minor corrections. Our favorite tool for searching a LUG: GLUE.
Bryan Henderson's Linux Loadable Kernel Module HOWTO v1.04 explains what happens with kernel modules behind the scenes.
Happenings in the LDP world
DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide 2nd Edition
Bob Stayton announced
the release of the second edition of his book DocBook XSL: The
Complete Guide
. The book is available at amazon.com and
also for browsing at http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/.
DocBook output from OpenOffice.org
If you are struggling to get the DocBook output from
OpenOffice.org to work like Saqib
Ali and Charles
Curley, Try the solution
that Charles found. It seems it would be best if you install JRE first,
so that OOo can see it during installation. Time for a mini-HOWTO?
HTML to DocBook XML/SGML Conversion: Help Needed
John Levon has lost the original sources of his Linux profiling
HOWTO and would be trying out html2db/tidy to generate them.
However, if you would like to help, get in touch with John.
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