2003 23 The Linux Documentation Project 2003-09-30 Announcing the Sybase ASE HOWTO v1.0 by Kian Spongsveen. The full name for this document is the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise/SQL Server HOWTO; it describes the installation and basic usage of this database on the Linux platform. If privacy is an issue for you, check out our second new document this week: the Encrypted Root Filesystem HOWTO by Christophe Devine. Pramode C.E. sent in a document entitled Linux Kernel Commentary and awaits your remarks. Machtelt Garrels submitted the LDAP Operations HOWTO or LDAP Management HOWTO (the name is not yet decided on) and welcomes any comments you may have. We received update v2.19 of David Lawyer's Serial HOWTO. H†vard Stranden provided us with v1.3.1 of his ATI R200 + XFree86 4.x mini-HOWTO. The Linux User Group HOWTO by Rick Moen is now at v1.6.8. Svetoslav Slavtchev's XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO was updated to v1.2.1. Alavoor Vasudevan sent in v6.9 of the Kernel HOWTO. Sergiusz Pawlowicz has been into Linux and Open Source ever since 1994, almost ten years. For nearly as long, he has been one of the thriving forces behind the Polish translation effort. When he's not administering our mailinglists or the CVS, he manages his company, .

Q: So, Sergiusz, after all this time, do you remember how you got involved with TLDP? A: I wrote Paul Jones, that I would like to help with LDP, and I also proposed to switch our document management system to CVS. Because I'm also into the developement of the PLD Linux Distro, I was very expirienced in using versioning systems in big scale. As you can see, my proposition was accepted :-) Q: Apart from TLDP and PLD, you're involved in a number of other Open Source projects: the Free Software Foundation, you translate for the GNU project, ... And I know from my own experience that you take great care and that people can rely on you. Do you ever take a day off? A: Yeah, my girlfriend is rather unhappy. It is a real problem. But community service is stronger than me. It is fascinating when you have a real influence on political and sociological aspects of informatics. Q: Is there anything you want to share with the world that you cannot add to one of the Open Source projects you are involved with, such as the Polish Cooking HOWTO, maybe, or the Polish Traditional Woodwork FAQ? This is your chance to have your deepest wish heard ;-) A: Yeah - HOWTO to stand up and turn off TV. It really gives me the creeps to see that so many people are in an idle state and just watch television. Without adding anything to society, while listening to information prepared by Public Relations in big concerns, they are empty-headed. Q: In your opinion, what makes TLDP so interesting? A: The most interesting thing in TLDP is that everyone can join us! Q: How do you say If all else fails, read the HOWTO in Polish? A: Hehe, you won't believe how strange it sounds, I better not answer this one ;-) . Since TLDP provides documentation on free software, a lot of our readers have been concerned about the pushing of software patents in Europe lately. Thanks to all of you who wrote to their representatives in the European Parlement, the worst case scenario was avoided. Because of this good news, a lot of Open Source sites have been re-opened last week. However, the decision has only been postponed, and danger of restriction is still pending. Read more at . . . 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. You can help TLDP by: Reviewing a document in progress, reviving an unmaintained document or providing assistance with markup. You are welcome to participate in TLDP discussions at 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. Please send in any such information to feedback@en.tldp.org. LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.