2005
37, 38, 39 & 40
The Linux Documentation Project
2005-11-02
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
News in The LDP world
Volunteer for the mirror checkup
Machtelt Garrels (Tille) is looking for a volunteer to do the
mirrors checkup. Things to do are:
Check time-stamp on all mirrors
(http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html), all URLs should have a
timestamp.txt in the top-level directory.
Contact the maintainers of mirrors that are not up to
date, ask if they plan to correct the situation.
Create a list of mirrors that can not be contacted at
all, those will be removed from
http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html
Get in touch with Tille if you are interested.
Discussions on The LDP lists
LDP Manifesto "Overview" change
David Lawyer looked at what he had drafted in 2001 for the
"Overview" part of the Manifesto and edited it a little to reflect the
current situation . The revised version is available for comment and David posted a
version asking if discuss list is OK with it.
AsciiDoc and DocBook
Scot Stevenson started started a discussion on why the LDP should start supporting AsciiDoc
as one of the acceptable formats. Since Scot talked about LinuxDoc,
David Lawyer put down his thoughts on the issue and said that the LDP
could revive LinuxDoc.
LDP or TLDP
David Lawyer, while discussing the draft of the Introduction to
the LDP Manifesto, said we did change was our URL from
linuxdoc.org to tldp.org. But the old URL still works (I just tried
it). So I'm in favor of continuing to use LDP and to not object if
people call us TLDP. LDP has a lot of name recognition in printed
books. If you look at our doc, there's several times more mention of
LDP than TLDP. So it's not too late to go back to LDP. LDP is also
used a lot on our website along with TLDP
. Several people
were in favour of using LDP and Guylhem P. Aznar said that tldp.org
was choosen because ldp.org was not available.
Alex Nordstrom, the maintainer of the Documentation Workgroup of
the Linux Society of Sweden, sent in a mail to the discuss list outlining the process of translating a document from the Linux
Documentation Project (LDP) for the Linux Society of Sweden and
requested comments on the translation effort workflow.
Documents submitted for review
Rohit Agarwal submitted a How To for
libdc1394, the document discusses libdc1394 library that is used
for IEEE1394 camera interfacing.
Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
Scot W. Stevenson's Mock Mainframe
Mini-HOWTO at v1.2.
Werner Heuser's Linux Infrared
HOWTO. In version 3.7 technical and a language review have been
done. Numerous bugs have been fixed and many URLs have been updated.
Some obsolete stuff has been removed. Some documentation about
Linux/IrDA with kernel 2.6 has been added (but there is still work to
do).
Miroslav "Misko" Skoric sent in updates to the FBB Packet-radio BBS
mini-HOWTO (v1.36), the LILO mini-HOWTO (v3.26)
and the Linux+WindowsNT
mini-HOWTO (v2.25).
Peter Bieringer's Linux IPv6 HOWTO
is now at v0.49. The new revision adds configuration hints for DHCPv6
and has broken URL cleanups.
Avi Alkalay sent in his Managing Accurate Date
and Time HOWTO. v2005-10-12 of the document moves the Brazil
zic file out and has been updated.
Mendel Cooper's Advanced
Bash-Scripting Guide at v3.7 is a bugfix update and adds some
minor material.
David S. Lawyer's Howtos-with-LinuxDoc-mini-HOWTO
has been updated and is now at v0.05.
Rob van der Putten's Leased line Mini HOWTO
now at v2.3b7 has information about additional PPPD options and routing.
Charles Curley's Linux
Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO is at v2.0. The new version
has notes for Fedora Core 4. Notes for older versions of FC and Red Hat
have been removed. There are changes in the writeup and scripts reflect
using Knoppix instead of tomsrtbt. A few scripts have been changed so
that long lines don't fall off the right side of printed pages.
Mirror information update
The following are the latest additions to our list of mirrors:
maintained by
Wessel Sandkuyl in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and is hosted in a
multi-homed datacentre just under Schiphol. The mirror is updated
daily.
maintained by
dmitri@gnu.org, knight@uportal.ru in Moscow, Russia and updated daily.
maintained by Son
Nguyen in Tampa, FL, USA and update daily.
maintained by
Apostolos (Greek HOWTOs maintainer) in Athens, Greece and updated daily.
maintained
by Scott Braynard in NJ, USA and updated daily.
maintained
by Jeremiah Tieman in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and updated twice every
day.
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