2004 44 The Linux Documentation Project 2004-11-03 Matt Barnes would like to start a Linux Documentation - Audio Video project. The project aims to convert The LDP documents to wave and mp3 format. The goal of this exercise is to show that it can be done, and that it should be done. The intent is to allow someone to download a media file into a media player and listen to the information rather than always having to read it and possibly stream them over the internet. Contact Matthew S Barnes (mbarnes at bfinity dot net) if you have more ideas. iSCSI-Linux HOWTO: iSCSI is becoming more popular, particularly on Linux. Ben Rockwood was bothered by the massive lack of documentation available and wrote his own, titled "A Quick Guide to iSCSI on Linux" (http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/iscsi/index.html). The document is currently considered as the manual for the iSCSI Enterprise Target project (http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/) and is on of the popular guides to iSCSI on the net. Ben intends to update the document and submit it to The LDP for inclusion as a HOWTO rather than maintain it on his own site as a paper. Ben Rockwood noticed that the Benchmark HOWTO hasn't been updated since 1997. The unmaintained list shows a new maintainer for the doc, but an email to him got a failed response from the mail server. Ben is of the opinion that the document could be a bit more heavy on disk subsystems. Currently the document is geared towards general systems performance. Ben was wondering if he should start a new Disk-Benchmarking HOWTO and would like your input. Email benr@cuddletech.com German SMIL tutorial on Linux: The Computing Center of the University of Kassel produced a SMIL introduction to Linux (around 4 hours of video, with subtitles in German and some accompanying figures). Andreas Matthias wrote in to offer this to The LDP for integration into The LDP but did not find any support for non-textual formats in. The (not yet sufficiently polished product) is at http://www.uni-kassel.de/hrz/anwendungen/matthias/unix-kurs/online. He was wondering if someone who understands German and has some talent in laying out descriptive graphics would help them to complete the project. Please contact matthias@hrz.uni-kassel.de if you would like to offer help. Avi Alkalay's HOWTO for Managing Accurate Date and Time (The TimePrecision-HOWTO) has been updated to v1.0.8. The new version has been translated to Hungarian. The section on why we need a precise clock and the section on chrony have been updated. 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.