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The Linux Documentation Project
2004-01-14
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
New documents @ TLDP
Jakob Østergaard and Emilio Bueso have released
their Software-RAID
HOWTO v1.00.0. The document discusses the 0.90 version of the
RAID tools to use with 2.4 kernels. It starts off explaining everything
you always wanted to know about RAID. The document is very
well-balanced and accessible also to readers who are not familiar with
the topic and is certainly worth a read!
The Linux Media
Guide by Sheldon Rose adds more to our Linux advocacy department,
providing tips and tricks on how to generate positive PR and press
coverage for our favorite systems. The non-technical nature of this
document makes it an ideal read for your managers, marketing and sales
people.
Documents submitted for review
Ralf Holzer updated the Cryptoloop
Mini-HOWTO. Comments on the new version are
welcome.
New document proposals
David Jao is working on a DVD playing HOWTO, because, as he points
out, the current document is way too outdated, unmaintained, and
no longer even remotely accurate. Since everybody who wants to play
DVDs on Linux runs into DMCA and other barriers, the proposal was hauled
in enthusiastically.
Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
Peter Jay Salzman's Debian Jigdo
mini-HOWTO v1.1. A popular document: translations
in German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese are available from
Peter's web
site.
Subhasish Ghosh updated the Windows+BSD+Linux
Installation Guide on Intel architecture, using the GRUB boot
loader. This edition has an extended troubleshooting section and adds
RedHat 8.0 and FreeBSD 5.1 to the reader's choice.
The MS Outlook to
Unix Mailbox Conversion mini-HOWTO v1.4 by Greg Lindahl has
additional information on the conversion of attachments, which can
sometimes be very troublesome because of the bundling techniques used in
Outlook.
David S. Lawyer, one of our most prominent LinuxDoc
evangelists, published v0.03 of the Howtos with
LinuxDoc mini-HOWTO, which is a polish-up of the previous
edition.
David didn't sit still the last couple of weeks: he did a rewrite
of the devices section in the Modem HOWTO, which
is now v0.32; added more on flow control and updated the device info in
the Serial
HOWTO v2.22 and there are some minor formatting changes in the
Text
Terminal HOWTO, v1.34.
Rick Moen found a couple more LUGS and did a license
change in v1.7.5 of the Linux User Group
HOWTO.
Miroslav Skoric's triplet: v1.29 of the FBB Packet-radio BBS
mini-HOWTO tells about the upgrade-to-RH9 adventure and there is
some minor rephrasing in v3.18 of the LILO mini-HOWTO and v2.18
of the Linux+WindowsNT
mini-HOWTO.
The latest version of Peter Bieringer's Linux+IPv6
HOWTO (v0.45). This revision has some minor fixes in the
document and the URLs and a few extensions.
News in The LDP world
Malaysia mirror changes URL
The responsible for the Selangor i-ownur.info mirror informed us
about domain name problems they are having, due to which the mirror is
now located at http://ldp.leakage.org. Like the
previous one, it is updated daily.
Out of date Acer HOWTO
Though The LDP is facing a lot of problems with old and
out-of-date documents these days, once in a while, we do hear from
responsible authors regarding what they want to be done to their
documents. Emma got
in touch with Harish Thampi, the author of the Acer HOWTO, which
has not been updated since 3 years. Harish would
probably submit the document to linux-on-laptops.com
Emma is also going
through our collection to check for out of date documents and
duplicate information suggesting merging of documents wherever
applicable. Thank you Emma for that.
Docbook, Emacs/PSGML documentation
Charles Curley pointed to us that there is some useful
documentation on Docbook and Emacs/PSGML at http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/documentation-guide/.
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