The LDP Weekly News

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 44
Publication Date : 2004-11-03
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Table of Contents
1. New document proposals
2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
3. HOWTO contribute to The LDP

1. New document proposals

  * Matt Barnes would like to start a Linux Documentation - Audio Video
    project. The project aims to convert The LDP documents to wave and mp3
    format. The goal of this exercise is to show that it can be done, and
    that it should be done. The intent is to allow someone to download a
    media file into a media player and listen to the information rather than
    always having to read it and possibly stream them over the internet.
    Contact Matthew S Barnes (mbarnes at bfinity dot net) if you have more
    ideas.
   
  * iSCSI-Linux HOWTO: iSCSI is becoming more popular, particularly on Linux.
    Ben Rockwood was bothered by the massive lack of documentation available
    and wrote his own, titled "A Quick Guide to iSCSI on Linux" ([http://
    www.cuddletech.com/articles/iscsi/index.html] http://www.cuddletech.com/
    articles/iscsi/index.html). The document is currently considered as the
    manual for the iSCSI Enterprise Target project (http://
    iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/) and is on of the popular guides to iSCSI on
    the net. Ben intends to update the document and submit it to The LDP for
    inclusion as a HOWTO rather than maintain it on his own site as a paper.
   
  * Ben Rockwood noticed that the Benchmark HOWTO hasn't been updated since
    1997. The unmaintained list shows a new maintainer for the doc, but an
    email to him got a failed response from the mail server. Ben is of the
    opinion that the document could be a bit more heavy on disk subsystems.
    Currently the document is geared towards general systems performance. Ben
    was wondering if he should start a new Disk-Benchmarking HOWTO and would
    like your input. Email benr@cuddletech.com
   
  * German SMIL tutorial on Linux: The Computing Center of the University of
    Kassel produced a SMIL introduction to Linux (around 4 hours of video,
    with subtitles in German and some accompanying figures). Andreas Matthias
    wrote in to offer this to The LDP for integration into The LDP but did
    not find any support for non-textual formats in. The (not yet
    sufficiently polished product) is at [http://www.uni-kassel.de/hrz/
    anwendungen/matthias/unix-kurs/online] http://www.uni-kassel.de/hrz/
    anwendungen/matthias/unix-kurs/online. He was wondering if someone who
    understands German and has some talent in laying out descriptive graphics
    would help them to complete the project. Please contact
    matthias@hrz.uni-kassel.de if you would like to offer help.
   

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2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

  * Avi Alkalay's HOWTO for Managing Accurate Date and Time (The [http://
    tldp.org/HOWTO/TimePrecision-HOWTO/] TimePrecision-HOWTO) has been
    updated to v1.0.8. The new version has been translated to Hungarian. The
    section on why we need a precise clock and the section on chrony have
    been updated.
   

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3. HOWTO contribute to The LDP

The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing free, high
quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help
TLDP, consider joining <discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org>.

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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.