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The Linux Documentation Project
2003-07-29
TLDP Weekly News
New documents
Fresh@LDP
Only one new document this week, but a very impressive one: Binh Nguyen released the first official version of the Linux Dictionary. With nearly 9000 entries, this is probably the most complete reference currently available.
Proposed new documents
These new ideas sprouted up:
Mark Hoebeke wants to target the novice developers HOWTO with a mini-HOWTO about the GNU auto-tools, such as automake, autoconf and libtoolize. His proposal was received very positively.
Carsten Kolassa wants to write what he would like to call the Network-Programming HOWTO, discussing among other topics how to write to and read from a socket, how to write simple servers and sniffers. His primary goal is to write in C, but Carsten plans on adding C++, Perl and Java examples as well.
Machtelt Garrels wants to contribute a document called LDAP Operations HOWTO, which is intended to link the LDAP HOWTO with the LDAP Implementation HOWTO.
Submitted for review
We received v1.1 of the Linux Cluster HOWTO, by Ram Samudrala.
Saqib Ali submitted v2.2.8 of the DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO.
Don't get confused with all these Oracle HOWTO's, this is v1.18 of the Oracle 8i Installation HOWTO, by Stephen Darlington.
If you don't have a local Linux User Group yet, click through to the Linux User Group HOWTO. Note that this document is now maintained by Rick Moen, who took over from Kendall Clark.
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Guides
Our Spanish collegues finished the revision of the Guía de Programación de Módulos del Núcleo Linux. The original document, the Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide is authored by Peter J. Salzman and Ori Pomerantz; the Spanish translation is the work of Rubén Melcón Fariña, assisted by Óscar Sanz Lorenzo and Francisco Javier Fernández.
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