2003 31 The Linux Documentation Project 2003-11-25 Nothing new yet, but our reviewer team was recently extended, so we are holding our breath... From the feedback mailinglist: how about a Windows-Linux Analogy HOWTO? This would be a HOWTO describing what to do in order to run your favorite Microsoft Windows tasks and programs on a Linux machine. If you ever had trouble migrating and you found solutions, then your input might be of great value! It seems there is some confusion about this section. So, in order to make it extra clear for the reader: The purpose of this section is to help authors gather feedback. Your constructive criticism is very welcome! Alex Weeks has taken it on him to update the Linux System Administrator's Guide. He's started cleaning out, and already added a new part about NTP, the Network Time Protocol. The SAG was originally authored by some quite famous people, so we would like to wish Alex strength, patience and courage so as to be a worthy successor. He might need your help, however, so please check out the current version and let Alex know what else you think is missing. Werner Heuser submitted a new edition of the Laptop HOWTO. Since this one, apart from laptops, also covers PDA and mobile telephone configuration topics - which presumably made it a lot longer, Werner would like to rename his document to be the Linux Mobile Guide. Since these are big changes and since we are, after all, on the high of a re-styling wave, Tabatha subsequently suggested to give this new addition to our Guides collection a thorough review. Werner agreed, so Tabatha is looking for a volunteer now. *hint* ;-) And this post proves that we can never have enough volunteers. Imagine that you, like Lars Strand, ask for comments on your work. You've actively participated in other discussions, you are enthusiastic about being a first time author and all, but after some days it proves that you get no reaction whatsoever. So we'd like to address a request to our dear readers: our authors don't wish for anything but to be flooded with remarks about their documents! Even if it's just a spelling correction, they appreciate that, and will most likely personally tell you so. And then you will have an authentic E-mail, personally directed to you, from one of our authors! And you will be able to honestly brag about your participation in an Open Source project ;-) Artemiy Pavlov submitted the first version of his SquashFS HOWTO. SquashFS is a file system for small Linux implementations, which is for instance needed for embedded systems (on a computer chip) or on flash memory. SquashFS uses a strong compression mechanism that squeezes the last drop out of every available bit. It is a read-only file system, so it's ideal for archiving purposes. If you want SquashFS support, you need a kernel patch and maybe the mksquashfs command to create these squashed file systems. Niko Sauer submitted the USB Flash Memory HOWTO, a new document. Ian Ward found a small error having to do with the lpadmin command (to administer printers), which he corrected in v1.3 of the Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO. . . . . The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. Announcements about TLDP are made via announce-subscribe@en.tldp.org. If you want to help TLDP, take a look at the tasks page, and consider joining discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org. Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events related to free software documentation. Write to us at feedback@en.tldp.org. LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.