2004 18 The Linux Documentation Project 2004-05-05 After months of reviewing, the Bash Guide for Beginners, by Machtelt Garrels, is finally available. A lot of readers were waiting for the PDF version, this and other formats can be obtained here. Extending the presentations with docbook HOWTO proposal, Emma Jane Hogbin suggests a more general Presentations with Linux HOWTO. Wim van Dorst updated the BogoMips mini-HOWTO to v36. For over ten years now this document gives performance info of CPUs running Linux. If you still want more after finishing the Bash Guide for Beginners, Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is the place to be. v2.7 contains more examples and some minor updates. Mendel keeps the full revision log on his personal site. Accidents will happen! Prepare for the worst with Charles Curley's Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO. Featuring in v1.6: notes on Knoppix, Syslinux, PPART, QtPart and more info on rescue CDs. Daniel Nofftz sent in a new version of the Athlon Power Saving HOWTO. v1.1.4 incorporates a change in the sis chipset commandline hack, adds a new sound fix and a new patch for the 2.6.5 kernel. The LVM HOWTO by AJ Lewis has been updated to v0.11. This revision has updated LVM2 FAQ entries. Introduction to Linux goes to press The Introduction to Linux Guide will be available in printed format (264 pages) from http://fultus.com from May 20th onwards by Print On Demand (POD). Fultus also distributes the book via Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Barnes & Noble. Feedback mailinglist protected Sergiusz has been working quite hard to protect our mailing lists from spam. After the submit mailinglist, the protection was extended to the feedback mailinglist. New mirror in Malaysia Ikmal Ahmad noted that there were no mirrors available for Malaysia and took the initiative to start one. The new mirror is at , is located in Kuala Lumpur and updates several times per day. Obsolete MSSQL6-Openlink-PHP-ODBC HOWTO Jean-Philippe Geurard, the HOWTO-French translation coordinator wrote in to inform us that the MSSQL6-Openlink-PHP-ODBC HOWTO was obsolete. The version of OpenLink that does not seem to be available anywhere on the Internet and The current version was not free anymore. AsciiDoc as a new format for submissions AsciiDoc is a GPLed formating system written in Python by Stuart Rackham that can convert a plain text human readable/writable document format directly to DocBook. Scot W. Stevenson suggested that the LDP maintainers consider AsciiDoc for document submissions to reduce the barrier involved in learning DocBook. Emma Jane Hogbin said that this was a misconception that the LDP accepts only DocBook submissions and Scot explained how he thought learning DocBook was necessary if only at a later point of time. Gerg Ferguson was interested in how good AsciiDoc was at doing container elements and meta-data and that if it can do a good job like WikiText without DocBook errors, the LDP would be open to such submissions. TLDP funds and donations Machtelt Garrels wanted to know what somebody who wanted to give money to TLDP should be doing. Paul Jones replied saying that cheques may be sent to: ibiblio.org, campus box 3456, UNC chapel hill, nc 27599-3456, USA. They should be made payable to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a note that the funds are for the Linux Documentation Project. The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help TLDP, consider joining discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org. Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events related to free software documentation. Write to us at feedback@en.tldp.org. The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.