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The Linux Documentation Project
2004-01-28
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
New document proposals
Jeff Horsager wants to write an SSH HOWTO. He motivates
the proposal here.
A lot of people responded positively and an
outline started to form.
Jing S. Tang wrote a bootingUSB
HOWTO. This document explains how to create a Linux bootable USB
disk step by step. The target USB disk will contain the GRUB boot
loader, the boot file system and the root file system.
David Jao posted
a draft version of his DVD
Playback HOWTO draft. Thomas Zimmerman also posted what he
thinks about the document, your comments are welcome.
Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
There's a new version of the Linux Security HOWTO by Kevin Fenzi and Dave Wreski. V2.3 covers passwords in GRUB and explains umask operation in detail.
The K7s5a HOWTO, an
effort by Sebfrance, Andreas Willenbrink, Álvaro Reguly and Paolo
Berva, documents the K7s5a mainboard. It has instructions to make the integrated sound board work, how to get the sensors to do sensible reporting and how to activate the LAN adapter. New in v1.6 are the instructions for Debian.
Daniel Quintiliani's Windows Newsreaders under Linux HOWTO v2.2 covers the latest stable version of wine, which causes a series of new problems. Daniel documents each newsreader with its particular bugs.
The Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO v1.4 by Ian Ward has some minor corrections.
Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash Scripting Guide v2.4 has bug fixes; the PDF version which previously had problems is now also OK.
Ralf Holzer released the v1.1 of his Cryptoloop
HOWTO. This revision comes with updated information on patching
util-linux, Loop-AES, Best Crypt.
News in The LDP world
CD Distributions EN HOWTO removed
Martin Wheeler requested that his HOWTO on "English-language
GNU/Linux distributions on CD-ROM" be removed. You are pointed to either the DistroWatch site or the Linux Online site as an alternative.
manpages from the IEEE and The Open Group
Alexander Voropay updated
us that The IEEE
and The Open Group have granted permission to the
Linux Manual Pages Project to incorporate material from the
joint IEEE 1003.1T POSIXR standard and The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 6.
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