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The Linux Documentation Project
2003-11-05
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
New documents
Fresh@LDP
Maybe not that fresh, but here it is finally in one-dot-oh!: the Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO, by Peter Jay Salzman.
Proposed new documents
Niko Sauer has written some interesting things about USB memory sticks and would like to know what you think about it.
Submitted for review
Jean-Daniel Dodin's Partition-Rescue HOWTO is being converted to docbook and the new version will be published under the LGPL.
Everything else submitted for review has already been or is being processed.
Updates
HOWTOs
After the fashion of the Wie werde ich Hacker HOWTO (Babelfish might be required), TLDP has its own HOWTO-become-a-guru doc, the Linux Reading List HOWTO. This list is what Eric Steven Raymond considers to be essential reading if you want to become a UNIX/Linux programmer. I admire his choice of starting off with the New Hacker's Dictionary ;-) The list is revision v2.1 now.
Alavoor Vasudevan's C-C++ Beautifier HOWTO v16.7 got accepted. He also tries to keep the Linux Kernel HOWTO up to date, which, we imagine, isn't an easy job. In other words, here too, your constant feedback is needed. Have a go at it, you needn't be a specialist. Really :)
Did you know that Miroslav Misko
Skoric's FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO contains a section on how to communicate with LinFBB in Serbian? Check it out, preferably in the latest version, 1.26.
As usual, Miroslav's updates come in threes: you also get the LILO mini-HOWTO, v3.15, and the Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO, v2.15.
Rick Moen found some more interesting sources of Linux information and listed them in v1.7.3 of his Linux User Group HOWTO
Alavoor Vasudevan documented another of our great Open Source products, ported to just about any system, by the way, so if you thought Linux wasn't the thing for you, at least try our fantastic visual editor, Improved, aka vIm on your inferior\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h alternative operating system. You can't go wrong with Alavoor's Vim Color Editor HOW-TO.
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Guides
Mendel Cooper promises v2.2 of his Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide to be full of exiting new examples demonstrating all the nifty things
you can do with Bash arrays, and much more!
Happenings in the LDP world
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TLDP-ES/LuCAS unreachable
patatipatata now back online.
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