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The Linux Documentation Project
2004-05-26
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
New document proposals
Artemio has been working with RTLinux for a while, and
wrote installation instructions to help newbies on the RTLinux mailing
list. His RTLinux installation
instructions are now also a part of the official RTLinux
package. Artemio would now like to take over the (out dated) RTLinux HOWTO
and create a RTLinux Installation HOWTO and RTLinux Programming HOWTO
(or, RTLinux Module Programming HOWTO).
Teus Benschop proposed
to write a Bible Translation HOWTO. His HOWTO would cover the
software that is currently available for Linux, explain how VMware was
used to use to run the Bible translation software that is available for
Windows, and detail out how to integrate the two OSes to make the best
of the job, and then call for new software to be written.
Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
The K7s5a HOWTO describing the Elite K7s5a motherboard is a joint effort of Sebfrance, Andreas Willenbrink, Àlvaro Reguly and Paolo Berva. Version 2.0 contains corrections sent in by the readers.
Ricardo Alexandre Mattar posted v1.2 of the Samba Authenticated Gateway HOWTO. This HOWTO documents the creation of a firewall or gateway that uses rules based on user access, in which the users are authenticated by a Samba Primary Domain Controller. On the outside, you don't notice too many changes; this version is mainly a cleanup of the source code.
Machtelt Garrels sent in v1.13 of the Introduction to Linux guide. Apart from some minor updates, she added references to rdesktop, updated the glossary and thanks the people who translated the guide into Hindi.
The Linux Documentation
Project Reviewer HOWTO v1.4.2 corrects some spelling mistakes
from v1.4.1. Emma Jane Hogbin sent in this new revision.
Artemiy I. Pavlov released the SquashFS HOWTO v1.1.
This revision has modifications to the HOWTO to keep it current to
SquashFS release 1.3r3.
News in The LDP world
New mirror in Belgrado.
Ljubisa Radivojevic volunteered to set up a mirror of TLDP in Belgrado. With this, he created the first mirror in the Serbia-Montenegro region. A complete list of our mirrors can be found at . Most are updated daily or even multiple times per day, so choose one near to you!
Discussions on The LDP lists
Bible Translation HOWTO
Teus Benschop proposed
to write a Bible Translation HOWTO and requested feedback. People had
different ideas
about the topic
and the content of documents that The LDP should host. Rodolfo
J Paiz posted
his ideas on why Teus Benschop's proposal should be given a
chance. Greg Ferguson said
that it would be good if Teus could design this in a generic manner
covering available translation software and then, cover the bible
translation as a "case study".
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