LDP Weekly News

TLDP Weekly News

Issue Number : 4
Publication Date : 2003-05-13
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Table of Contents
1. New documents
    1.1. Fresh@LDP
    1.2. Submitted for review
   
   
2. Updates
    2.1. HOWTOs
   
   
3. Happenings in the LDP world
    3.1. Editor for LinuxDoc/DocBook
    3.2. Outage of LDP Services
    3.3. Request For Comments
   
   
4. Feedback and Contributions

1. New documents

1.1. Fresh@LDP

  * Our Spanish colleagues announced the arrival of [http://
    genarin.hispalinux.es/LuCAS/Manuales-LuCAS/guia-rapida-newnat/
    Guia-rapida-de-Newnat.html.gz] the fast guide to NewNAT (in Spanish), by
    Christian Conejero.
   

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1.2. Submitted for review

  * Your comments are wanted on the [http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/
    Conference-Server-HOWTO.html] GNU/Linux Conference Server HOWTO, by
    Franck Martin.
   

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2. Updates

2.1. HOWTOs

  * Alavoor Vasudevan sent in v16.4 of the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/
    C-C++Beautifier-HOWTO/] C-C++ Beautifier HOW-TO, v10.9 of the [http://
    tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO/] LILO Linux Crash Rescue HOW-TO
    and v5.7 of the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/] The Linux Kernel
    HOWTO. He can now take a couple of days off :).
   
  * Ricardo Alexandre Mattar submitted v1.1.0 of the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/
    Samba-Authenticated-Gateway-HOWTO.html] Samba Authenticated Gateway
    HOWTO.
   
  * The [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Game-Server-HOWTO/] Game Server HOWTO by
    Anders Jensen-Urstad was updated to v1.5.
   

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3. Happenings in the LDP world

3.1. Editor for LinuxDoc/DocBook

 The discussion on One-page replacement for LDP-Author-Guide took an
interesting turn when Tabatha sent in her views regarding an online editor
for LinuxDoc/DockBook. Her requirements include prompting user for tags and
validating/processing the document at the backend. She also indicated that
someone was working on a PHP based tool for the same and that the the "form"
idea, where a user could enter the relevant document information and then
proceed to fill in the blanks until the document is complete is the secret of
success. Greg Ferguson, however felt that it would be clunky and said that he
was not sure how tables, code examples, graphics would be handled and
preferred the *easy* way of using a Sample-HOWTO.xml with good old reliable 
vi.

 Several people went on to discuss an alternative interface and tools that
might solve the problem of editing in LinuxDoc/DockBook.
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3.2. Outage of LDP Services

 Several services of The LDP were [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:
4381:200305:fojaagooonmldaebjmei] affected because of hard drive problems.
The CVS was back later on Thursday (2003-05-08).
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3.3. Request For Comments

 Rahul Sundaram, who is the author of the [http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/LDP-FAQ]
LDP FAQ and the Deciding If Linux is right for you HOWTO, sent in a general
update and requested feedback on the documents that he maintains. He proposes
someone takes over the [http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DOSEMU-HOWTO.html ] DOSEMU
HOWTO and the [http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Automount.html ] Automount
HOWTO.
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4. Feedback and Contributions

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 <[mailto:feedback
(at)en.tldp.org] feedback@en.tldp.org>.

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