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The Linux Documentation Project
2005-09-14
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
News in The LDP world
Checking for inactive maintainers
Machtelt Garrels, newly appointed Review Coordinator, took a dive
into the HOWTO collection. All authors of inactive documents (not
updated this year) were contacted and asked if they planned to update
their documents any time soon. The results of the
effort are available. In case you can get in touch with any of
the inactive document authors and maintainers of the documents that you
use often, please send in the information to the
feedback@en.tldp.org address.
Discussions on The LDP lists
Modernizing TLDP:
August was a busy month on the discuss@en.tldp.org
mailinglist. The pros and cons of a wiki for TLDP were discussed, and finally it was decided that it wouldn't be a bad idea to have wiki pages for those HOWTOs that seem abandoned. Pradeep Padala and jdd made a summary of the discussion.
HOWTOs for Hardware
While on the discussion about the demo page that was setup by jdd at
, Saqib Ali
said that TLDP as it currently exist should now retire as most
of the HOWTOs (including ones authored by him) are not needed anymore, since the
linux
distros and other opensource apps have started producing excellent
documentation. David Lawyer responded
saying There is more need than ever for HOWTOs covering hardware.
The apps
seldom cover hardware and if they do, may not cover it adequately.
One problem is that there is a lot of hardware that doesn't work with
Linux due to Windows-only drivers. In other cases the hardware will
work under Linux but doesn't have all its features supported by the
Linux driver. Also, some hardware is defective in design, but will
still work if the driver has a workaround. Currently, there's only
limited coverage of hardware by HOWTOs and much of it is
out-of-date.
New documents @ The LDP
Gaurav Prasad described the installation procedures of Oracle 9i on Fedora Core 3.
The Linux Laptop HOWTO was archived and replaced with Werner Heuser's Linux on the Road or Linux Mobile guide. Though there are laptop, notebook, PDA and mobile phone related
HOWTOs available already, this guide contains a concise survey
of documents related to mobile computer devices. Also Linux
features, such as installation methods for laptops, notebooks
and PDAs as well as configurations for different (network)
environments are described.
And though there are some caveats, Linux is a good choice for mobile
computing devices than most other operating systems because
it supports numerous installation methods, works in many
heterogeneous environments and needs fewer resources.
Documents submitted for review
Nicolas Dufour submitted the Linux Aviation HOWTO, containing a summary of useful software for pilots and navigators.
Review is ongoing for the MP3 HOWTO by Phil Kerr.
A new maintainer was found for the Security Quick-Start HOWTO for Red Hat Linux, the Security Quick-Start HOWTO for Linux and the The X Window User HOWTO; these are currently being reviewed.
New document proposals
Stuart Ellis proposed an SSH HOWTO and got the go-ahead.
Kave Aryan had to write a filesystem as part of his final project at the University of Teheran and wants to contribute his documentation about this.
Nishant Sharma wants to write something about the Sierra Wireless PC-Card which is offered country-wide by an Indian ISP.
Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
Steven Pritchard: Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO
Nils Radtke: Ethernet Bridge + netfilter Howto
AJ Lewis: LVM HOWTO
Avi Alkalay: Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux
Bryan Henderson: Linux Loadable Kernel Module HOWTO
Lars Wirzenius, Joanna Oja, Stephen Stafford, and Alex Weeks: The Linux System Administrators' Guide
Daniel Nofftz: Athlon Powersaving HOWTO
Werner Heuser: Linux Ecology-HOWTO
Ian Ward: Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO
Chr. Clemens Lee: Debian Binary Package Building HOWTO
David S.Lawyer: Plug-and-Play-HOWTO
Thomas Chiverton: CompaqT1500-Linux HOWTO
Jean-Philippe Gerard: Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO
Mendel Cooper: Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
Machtelt Garrels: Bash Beginner's Guide
John Eikenberry: GNU/Linux AI & Alife HOWTO
Ram Samudrala: Linux Cluster HOWTO
Machtelt Garrels: Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide
Mirror information update
The following are the latest additions to our list of mirrors:
maintained by Tony Escujuri in Mesa, Arizona, USA.
maintained by Michael Balcos in Quezon City, Metro Manila, The Philippines.
maintained by Tom Sonsuwan in Texas, USA.
maintained by Taufik Suryawan Edyna in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
maintained by Constantinos Laitsas in Frankfurt, Germany.
maintained by Peio Popov in Sofia, Bulgaria.
maintained in Frederick, Maryland, USA.
maintained by Grigore Raileanu in Chisinau, Moldavia.
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