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The Linux Documentation Project
2003-11-18
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
New documents
Fresh@LDP
No new documents this week, but TLDP is preparing for a real freshening up, so be warned!
Proposed new documents
There were a lot of new proposals this week, for documents (like
the Firewall-HOWTO and the Small Netserver HOWTO) and general structure
of TLDP. A proposal that we got through the feedback mailinglist: Want
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Submitted for review
Rick Meyerhoof, whom we know from this
post on the discuss mailinglist completed a draft version of the
Installfest
HOWTO.
Larry Lawrence submitted a rather interesting new document, entitled Beyond Linux from Scratch Guide, which will be a companion guide to the actual Linux from Scratch Guide by Gerard Beekmans.
Updates
HOWTOs and FAQs
An update of the Linux Documentation Project Reviewer HOWTO (v1.2) by David Merrill and Joy Yokley.
Don't throw away old monitors when you upgrade to a bigger one! Svetoslav Slavtchev explains in his XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO how you can use them to connect up to 16 people to one PC. v1.3 has some information about installing on Gentoo systems.
Minor editorial updates in v1.3 of the LDP FAQ by Rahul Sundaram. If you still don't know what TLDP is about - or if you know people who don't: this is the place to start.
The Traffic Control
HOWTO updated to v1.0.1 by Martin A. Brown. This version adds a
few links to documentation over v1.0.
Rick Moen sends in the v1.4.15 of the WordPerfect on Linux
FAQ.
Guides
The two-dot-oh of the Pocket Linux Guide is out. In this version the GNU coreutils package replaces the fileutils, sh-utils and textutils package. This and all other packages to build your basic Linux system are compiled from source. You are guided through the process by David Horton, who takes a step-by-step approach. You may also expect to find updated version numbers of most source code packages.
Happenings in the LDP world
Lampadas update
David Lawyer talked to David Merrill regarding Lampadas. David
Merrill is still working on Lampadas. Lampadas now, is not really
"lampadas" but "plone". David's lampadas work consists of additions to
plone so that when it's done, lampadas will be part of plone. When it
gets done, we will just need to install plone and we will then have
lampadas. He estimated it will be in Beta in about 6 months from now.
Linuxgazette fork
Thomas Adam on behalf of the editor team of LinuxGazette.net
informed
us that there was a fork of the popular LinuxGazette magazine
and requested that TLDP should mirror http://linuxgazette.net. Rick Moen
explained
the reasons
for the fork.
Temporary Removal of documents for review
After discussing the quality of Alavoor Vasudevan's HOWTOs, it has
been decided that they should be removed from TLDP collection. Greg
Ferguson announced
the same on the staff mailing list with the mail exchange between TLDP
review coordinator Tabatha and Al Dev. David Lawyer posted a few reasons
why this was necessary.
RPM package for LDP author tools
Rodolfo J. Paiz said on docbook@en.tldp.org that
Tom "Spot" Callaway from RedHat would help
him put together an ldp-author-tools RPM package. This would make it
easier for people running Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake, or other RPM-based
distros to set up a comfortable working environment to create
documentation for LDP. Rodolfo is interested in feedback regarding the
what the contents of the package should be and can be reached via
discuss@en.tldp.org.
Updated LDP-Author-Guide
Emma Jane Hogbin posted
an update to the LDP Author Guide. The single
HTML file version is available for a week at her site, but the
XML
sources have been changed again already. The Author Guide is no
longer a How to write DocBook documents for the LDP
. Emma
spent considerable time working on this and also posted a TODO list for
the guide in her mail.
TWiki advocacy for TLDP
Randy Kramer posted a long mail about Using
A Wiki (TWiki) at LDP. Randy wanted to respond to Rodolfo's
questions. His answers are also available in Wiki form at the Wiki
Advocacy For The LDP site.
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