The LDP Weekly News

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 24 & 25
Publication Date : 2005-06-25
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Table of Contents
1. News in The LDP world
2. Discussions on The LDP lists
3. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
4. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO

1. News in The LDP world

  * New HOWTO Generator
   
    Stein Gjoen announced the first release of the new HOWTO Generator. The
    generator now uses the new set of categories determined by Gerd Berget,
    allows up to 3 categories per document, uses CSS, accessibility has been
    improved. Stein indicated that it is sufficiently flexible that it allows
    for major rework of chapters with little effort. The updates are
    available from 
http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/tarpl.html.
   
  * LinuxWorld Expo BOF
   
    Andy Oram told us that there will be a BOF on creating documentation for
    Linux at the upcoming LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco; the BOF is on
    Wednesday, August 10th, from 5:15pm - 6:45pm. It was set up and will be
    moderated by Don Marti, editor in chief of Linux Journal. Andy indicated
    that it would be great to have someone there who's deeply involved in
    day-to-day coordination of the LDP. Edward Cherlin and Rick Moen
    indicated that they can both attend and help run that event.
   

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2. Discussions on The LDP lists

  * HOWTO re-licensing
   
    Pradeep Padala asked if his Ncurses Programming HOWTO can be re-licensed
    under a different license so that it can be distributed along with the
    official Ncurses package (maintained by Thomas Dickey). Various people
    stepped in to answer his questions about licensing and indicated that
    since he is the sole author of the document, he is free to license it as
    he likes, but the original document that was licensed under a different
    license will continue to be distributed under the same license. Further,
    updated to the new licensed document will not probably be available under
    the old license unless they are explicitly licensed as such.
   
    Rick Moen pointed Pradeep to
    Licensing-HOWTO.html and
    http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm

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3. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

  * The LVM-HOWTO
    by AJ Lewis is now at v0.15. The revision removed references
    to xfs_freeze - it is no longer needed; Updated snapshots subsection in
    Anatomy of LVM section; Added a couple entries to the LVM2 FAQ and fixed
    a couple typos.
   
  * Peter Jay Salzman's Debian Jigdo
    mini-HOWTO
    is now at ver 1.5.
   
  * David S. Lawyer updated the 
    Modem-HOWTO to v0.38.
    Changes include: Eliminated section on Digital Modems in appendix since
    it's already covered elsewhere. More on cable modems. ISDN serial modems.
    Troubleshooting: Can't find winmodems if no driver.
    
  * Miroslav "Misko" Skoric sent in minor updates to the
    
    FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO, the
    
    LILO mini-HOWTO and the
    
    Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO.
   

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4. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO

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