2005
19 & 20
The Linux Documentation Project
2005-05-18
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
Avi Alkalay, Donovan Rebbechi and Hal Burgiss's document
on Optimal Use of
Fonts on Linux has been updated for a 10 May 2005 version. Old
section-based glossary has been converted to real DocBook glossary.
Modernized terms and explanations have been used in the glossary and now
also includes concepts as charsets, Unicode and UTF-8.
Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide has been updated to v3.4. A
complete ChangeLog is available at
v8.0 of the generated Linux Consultants Guide has
been submitted by Joshua Drake to The LDP.
Mirror information update
The following are the latest additions to our list of mirrors:
http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/LDP/
maintained by IIT Madras in Chennai, India and updated daily.
maintained by
David Brown in Spanish Fork, UT, USA and updated daily.
maintained by Günter Wilhelm in Kirschhausen, Hessen, Germany and
updated daily.
maintained by LDP Keeper in California, USA and updated daily.
maintained
by webmaster@itt-grads.net in Northern Virginia, USA and updated 2 to 3
times a week.
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