The LDP Weekly News

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 45 & 46
Publication Date : 2004-11-17
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Table of Contents
1. New document proposals
2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
3. Discussions on The LDP lists
4. HOWTO contribute to The LDP

1. New document proposals

  * Noel Llopis wrote a mini-HOWTO on improving fonts on Mandrake (but his
    ideas are general and work on any distribution with KDE). The document is
    up for review at [http://convexhull.com/mandrake_fonts.html]
    and would be submitted to the LDP for inclusion in its collection.
   

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2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

  * David S. Lawyer sent in updates to the documents that he maintains:
   
      + The [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html] Modem-HOWTO v0.34 has
        information on distinctive ring workaround where you want the modem
        to answer phone calls only for certain types of rings like long,
        short, long, short, etc.
       
      + The v1.11 of [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html]
        Plug-and-Play-HOWTO has a new sub-section on LPC bus in the "How do I
        Find Devices and How Are They Configured?" section.
       
      + v2.23 of the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html] Serial HOWTO
        has information on serial ports on motherboard likely ISA or LPC and
        also some quick help added.
       
   
  * v.1.0.6 of Peter Jay Salzman's [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Gamers-HOWTO/]
    Linux Gamer's HOWTO has new information on OpenAL and libraries. Few
    typos have been fixed and the document has also been translated into
    Hungarian.
   
  * Mendel Cooper did a few minor updates to his 
    [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/]
    Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide and released v3.1.
   
  * Artemiy I. Pavlov's [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SquashFS-HOWTO/] SquashFS
    HOWTO v1.6 has been changed to catch-up with the SquashFS release 2.0.
    There are few minor text corrections as well.
   
  * Ram Samudrala submitted v1.31 of his [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Cluster-HOWTO.html]
    Linux Cluster HOWTO. The document discusses setting
    up high-performance Linux computing clusters.
   
  * The v2.5 of Andries Brouwer's [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html]
    Large Disk HOWTO has more information on disk
    geometry and the 1024 cylinder and other limits for disks.
   

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3. Discussions on The LDP lists

  * The LDP review process
   
    A lot of people had complaints that The LDP's review processes were
    getting in the way of new documents making their way into the collection.
    People suggested watermarking documents that have been reviewed (or the
    opposite) and distinguishing between the documents that have been through
    the review process and the documents that have not been.
   

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4. 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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software documentation. Write to us at <feedback@en.tldp.org>.

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