2005
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The Linux Documentation Project
2005-05-04
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
News in The LDP world
Local links
Several people already pointed out that our docs page has absolute
pointers back to iBiblio, whether you use the main site or a mirror.
Because the mirrors do have the complete collection, having absolute
links is rather pointless. The issue is now being dealt with and local
links will be made available soon.
The LDP history
Greg Ferguson put up an article TLDP history that was
published earlier in LinuxJournal. Some feedback, however, still needs
to be incorporated to make it accurately reflect what happened during
the last 10 years.
Unmaintained Documents
Guido Gonzato sent in a mail indicating that he doesn't have the
time to maintain the Configuration HOWTO, From DOS/Windows to Linux
HOWTO, From VMS to Linux HOWTO and the Saving Space mini-HOWTO. If you
would like to maintain any of these documents, send a mail to the
discuss@en.tldp.org list. Thank you Guido for writing
and maintaining these documents so far.
OpenSource XML authoring tools
Saqib Ali is covering VEX and ButterflyXML in his article for Free
Software Magazine. The article might be interesting for HOWTO authors
and editors. The HTML version is at .
New documents @ The LDP
Trevor Harmon finalized the TimeSys Linux
Install mini-HOWTO, which is a quick-start guide for installing
TimeSys Linux on a typical desktop workstation. In the words of the
author TimeSys Linux is a derivative of Linux created by TimeSys
Corporation. It includes a fully preemptible kernel, a constant-time
scheduler, fully schedulable interrupt handlers, fully schedulable
soft-IRQs, and reduced interrupt disable times. These features reduce
latency to a point where TimeSys Linux can be used as a Real-Time
Operating System (RTOS).
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Documents submitted for review
Nicolas Dufour prepares submission of the Linux
Aviation HOWTO, listing useful software for private, commercial
and military pilots, airlines, airports and anything having to do with
aeronautics.
Machtelt Garrels proposes new versions
of the flowcharts explaining TLDP workings. Yaroslaw Fedevych
helped making them more accessible by re-styling the Publishing
Process Flowchart and the Maintenance Process
Flowchart. Yaroslaw's versions are put forward for publication.
Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
David Ranch updated the Linux IP Masquerade
HOWTO. It has now more comments in the example rulesets. Apart
from that lots of polishing has been done to streamline this HOWTO. The
the rc.firewall-iptables-stronger ruleset was updated to fix a typo.
Avi Alkalay updated the Managing Accurate Date
and Time to v1.0.9. This update includes a link to
french translation.
Mirror information update
The following are the latest additions to our list of mirrors:
by Marvin Preuss, in Wolfsburg, Germany.
by Ryan, in Tokyo, Japan. This is our first Japanese mirror, thank you Ryan!
by Rodrigo Henriquez M., in Santiago, Chili.
by Oliver Schultze, the first mirror in Paraguay. It is located in the city of Asuncion. Thank you, Oliver!
by the admins of MirrorPlus, Munich, Germany.
by Mustafa Bayramgil, in Ankara, Turkey.
by Matthew Isam, first mirror in the state of Oklahoma, USA. Congratulations!
by Vedran Sego, in Zagreb, Croatia. First Croatian mirror, well done!
by Marius David, Timisoara, Romania.
by Gunter Wilhelm, Kirschhausen, Germany.
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