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>TLDP Weekly News</H1
><B
>Issue Number : </B
>5<BR><B
>Publication Date : </B
>2003-05-20<BR><HR></DIV
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><DL
><DT
><B
>Table of Contents</B
></DT
><DT
>1. <A
HREF="#AEN9"
>New documents</A
></DT
><DD
><DL
><DT
>1.1. <A
HREF="#AEN11"
>Fresh@LDP</A
></DT
><DT
>1.2. <A
HREF="#AEN21"
>Proposed new documents</A
></DT
><DT
>1.3. <A
HREF="#AEN30"
>Submitted for review</A
></DT
></DL
></DD
><DT
>2. <A
HREF="#AEN36"
>Updates</A
></DT
><DD
><DL
><DT
>2.1. <A
HREF="#AEN38"
>HOWTOs</A
></DT
></DL
></DD
><DT
>3. <A
HREF="#AEN65"
>Happenings in the LDP world</A
></DT
><DD
><DL
><DT
>3.1. <A
HREF="#AEN67"
>License on the LDP documents</A
></DT
><DT
>3.2. <A
HREF="#AEN73"
><TT
CLASS="literal"
>man</TT
> pages</A
></DT
></DL
></DD
><DT
>4. <A
HREF="#feedback"
>Feedback and Contributions</A
></DT
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><DIV
CLASS="sect1"
><H1
CLASS="sect1"
><A
NAME="AEN9"
></A
>1. New documents</H1
><DIV
CLASS="sect2"
><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="AEN11"
></A
>1.1. Fresh@LDP</H2
><P
>New documents this week:</P
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
>After quite some struggle, here it is finally: the <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/openMosix-HOWTO/"
TARGET="_top"
>openMosix HOWTO</A
>, formerly known as the Mosix HOWTO, by Kris Buytaert.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>An anonymous person wrote a document in Spanish explaining how to install the ICA Citrix client and use it with the popular Spanish PADRE program. Our colleagues from TLDP-ES made it available as the <A
HREF="http://es.tldp.org/Manuales-LuCAS/padre-howto/"
TARGET="_top"
>Padre-HOWTO</A
>.</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="sect2"
><HR><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="AEN21"
></A
>1.2. Proposed new documents</H2
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
>Howard Shane sent in a proposal for a <A
HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4386:200305:megoccnfpjhmfcoblbpf"
TARGET="_top"
>Scanner
HOWTO</A
></P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Weldon Goree
<A
HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4388:200305:moabfbbcgplpcncljjjn"
TARGET="_top"
>proposed</A
> a HOWTO on what dual-booting and multi-booting are and
how to do them.
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="sect2"
><HR><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="AEN30"
></A
>1.3. Submitted for review</H2
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
>Daniel Nofftz's announced that his
<A
HREF="http://cip.uni-trier.de/nofftz/linux/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html"
TARGET="_top"
>Athlon
Powersaving HOWTO</A
> is ready for review.</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="sect1"
><HR><H1
CLASS="sect1"
><A
NAME="AEN36"
></A
>2. Updates</H1
><DIV
CLASS="sect2"
><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="AEN38"
></A
>2.1. HOWTOs</H2
><P
>After the problems were solved last week, a whole bunch of pending upgrades came through:</P
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
>Anders Jensen-Urstad supplies us with v1.5 of the <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Game-Server-HOWTO/"
TARGET="_top"
>Game Server HOWTO</A
> and Peter Jay Salzman mailed v0.9.22 of the <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Gamers-HOWTO/"
TARGET="_top"
>The Linux Gamers' HOWTO</A
>.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Alavoor Vasudevan sent in yet another update for the <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/"
TARGET="_top"
>Kernel HOWTO</A
>, which is now at v5.7. He also moved the <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO/"
TARGET="_top"
>Vim Color Editor HOW-TO</A
> to DocBook.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>The <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/"
TARGET="_top"
>Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</A
> v1.8, by Mendel Cooper.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Also by Peter Salzman: the <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Debian-Jigdo/"
TARGET="_top"
>Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO</A
>.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Skip Rye worked on v1.8 of the <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Optical-Disk-HOWTO.html"
TARGET="_top"
>Linux Optical Disk HOWTO</A
>.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Svetoslav Slavtchev, one of the new TLDP authors, send in the first update to the <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/"
TARGET="_top"
>XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO</A
>.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Saqib Ali sent in <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO/"
TARGET="_top"
>the DocBook XML/SGML Processing Using OpenJade HOWTO</A
>, v2.2.5.</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="sect1"
><HR><H1
CLASS="sect1"
><A
NAME="AEN65"
></A
>3. Happenings in the LDP world</H1
><DIV
CLASS="sect2"
><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="AEN67"
></A
>3.1. License on the LDP documents</H2
><P
>&#13;Colin Watson, who maintains the Debian packages for LDP documents <A
HREF="http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200305/msg00216.html"
TARGET="_top"
>sent
in a mail</A
> indicating that the old manifesto boilerplate license
used on a number of LDP documents was considered non-free by Debian
legal. He sent in the note that the Debian doc-linux-html and
doc-linux-text packages will use the GNU GPL, which is permitted by the
<A
HREF="http://en.tldp.org/manifesto.html"
TARGET="_top"
>clause 2</A
>. David
Lawyer however <A
HREF="http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200305/msg00245.html"
TARGET="_top"
>noted</A
>
that It's only requested (not required) that the author be contacted in
case of modifications which may not render the license non-free.
</P
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CLASS="sect2"
><HR><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="AEN73"
></A
>3.2. <TT
CLASS="literal"
>man</TT
> pages</H2
><P
>&#13;Rahul Sundaram presented his <A
HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4407:200305:ihpahginmljdgbhooeje"
TARGET="_top"
>opinion
on</A
> man pages. He said that they cater to the expert who already
knows what s/he is dealing with and provided a few examples. Antony E.
Greene <A
HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4408:200305:foebgmckkcflneginjhc"
TARGET="_top"
>said</A
> that there are two different needs addressed
by tutorial or step-by-step instructions like the HOWTOs and a terse,
but comprehensive man on info page. Howard Shane and Machtelt Garrels
were of the opinion that the LDP should offer its services to improve
the quality of man pages but that would be a difficult task with the
resources at the disposal of LDP.
</P
><P
>&#13;While on the thread, Greg Ferguson <A
HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4409:200305:loceblldbelajghaloeg"
TARGET="_top"
>asked</A
> if people would be interested in a collection of man pages (filtered to HTML via man2html; browseable, etc.) on the LDP site.
</P
><P
>&#13;During the course of the discussion, <A
HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4426:200305:hgeoklcbfgegcnnilkkp"
TARGET="_top"
>jdd
wondered</A
> if there was some sort of a locate_doc that could
detect automatically all the documentation available for an
application. People suggested <A
HREF="http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/"
TARGET="_top"
>scrollkeeper</A
> and
<A
HREF="http://packages.debian.org/stable/doc/dwww.html"
TARGET="_top"
>dwww</A
> from
the Debian project.
</P
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CLASS="sect1"
><HR><H1
CLASS="sect1"
><A
NAME="feedback"
></A
>4. Feedback and Contributions</H1
><P
>Please help us create this weekly newsletter. Seen a site putting
in a story with a link to the LDP? Completed the translation of any
HOWTO? Know of any articles about the LDP published in newspapers or
magazines? We are curious ;-). You can help us by sending in links and
information at <TT
CLASS="email"
>&#60;<A
HREF="mailto:feedback@en.tldp.org"
>feedback@en.tldp.org</A
>&#62;</TT
>.</P
><P
>LDP Weekly News is edited by
Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
with help from several other people.</P
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