The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 2
Publication Date : 2004-01-14

Table of Contents

1. New documents @ TLDP

2. Documents submitted for review

3. New document proposals

4. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

5. News in The LDP world

5.1. Malaysia mirror changes URL
5.2. Out of date Acer HOWTO
5.3. Docbook, Emacs/PSGML documentation

6. HOWTO contribute to TLDP

1. New documents @ TLDP

Jakob Ã˜stergaard and Emilio Bueso have released their Software-RAID HOWTO v1.00.0. The document discusses the 0.90 version of the RAID tools to use with 2.4 kernels. It starts off explaining everything you always wanted to know about RAID. The document is very well-balanced and accessible also to readers who are not familiar with the topic and is certainly worth a read!
The Linux Media Guide by Sheldon Rose adds more to our Linux advocacy department, providing tips and tricks on how to generate positive PR and press coverage for our favorite systems. The non-technical nature of this document makes it an ideal read for your managers, marketing and sales people.

2. Documents submitted for review

Ralf Holzer updated the Cryptoloop Mini-HOWTO. Comments on the new version are welcome.

3. New document proposals

David Jao is working on a DVD playing HOWTO, because, as he points out, the current document is way too outdated, unmaintained, and no longer even remotely accurate. Since everybody who wants to play DVDs on Linux runs into DMCA and other barriers, the proposal was hauled in enthusiastically.

4. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

Peter Jay Salzman's Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO v1.1. A popular document: translations in German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese are available from Peter's web site.
Subhasish Ghosh updated the Windows+BSD+Linux Installation Guide on Intel architecture, using the GRUB boot loader. This edition has an extended troubleshooting section and adds RedHat 8.0 and FreeBSD 5.1 to the reader's choice.
The MS Outlook to Unix Mailbox Conversion mini-HOWTO v1.4 by Greg Lindahl has additional information on the conversion of attachments, which can sometimes be very troublesome because of the bundling techniques used in Outlook.
David S. Lawyer, one of our most prominent LinuxDoc evangelists, published v0.03 of the Howtos with LinuxDoc mini-HOWTO, which is a polish-up of the previous edition.

David didn't sit still the last couple of weeks: he did a rewrite of the devices section in the Modem HOWTO, which is now v0.32; added more on flow control and updated the device info in the Serial HOWTO v2.22 and there are some minor formatting changes in the Text Terminal HOWTO, v1.34.
Rick Moen found a couple more LUGS and did a license change in v1.7.5 of the Linux User Group HOWTO.
Miroslav Skoric's triplet: v1.29 of the FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO tells about the upgrade-to-RH9 adventure and there is some minor rephrasing in v3.18 of the LILO mini-HOWTO and v2.18 of the Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO.
The latest version of Peter Bieringer's Linux+IPv6 HOWTO (v0.45). This revision has some minor fixes in the document and the URLs and a few extensions.

5. News in The LDP world

5.1. Malaysia mirror changes URL

The responsible for the Selangor i-ownur.info mirror informed us about domain name problems they are having, due to which the mirror is now located at http://ldp.leakage.org. Like the previous one, it is updated daily.

5.2. Out of date Acer HOWTO

Though The LDP is facing a lot of problems with old and out-of-date documents these days, once in a while, we do hear from responsible authors regarding what they want to be done to their documents. Emma got in touch with Harish Thampi, the author of the Acer HOWTO, which has not been updated since 3 years. Harish would probably submit the document to linux-on-laptops.com

Emma is also going through our collection to check for out of date documents and duplicate information suggesting merging of documents wherever applicable. Thank you Emma for that.

5.3. Docbook, Emacs/PSGML documentation

Charles Curley pointed to us that there is some useful documentation on Docbook and Emacs/PSGML at http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/documentation-guide/.

6. HOWTO contribute to TLDP

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The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.