LDP Weekly News

TLDP Weekly News

Issue Number : 5
Publication Date : 2003-05-20
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Table of Contents
1. New documents
    1.1. Fresh@LDP
    1.2. Proposed new documents
    1.3. Submitted for review
   
   
2. Updates
    2.1. HOWTOs
   
   
3. Happenings in the LDP world
    3.1. License on the LDP documents
    3.2. man pages
   
   
4. Feedback and Contributions

1. New documents

1.1. Fresh@LDP

New documents this week:

  * After quite some struggle, here it is finally: the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO
    /openMosix-HOWTO/] openMosix HOWTO, formerly known as the Mosix HOWTO, by
    Kris Buytaert.
   
  * An anonymous person wrote a document in Spanish explaining how to install
    the ICA Citrix client and use it with the popular Spanish PADRE program.
    Our colleagues from TLDP-ES made it available as the [http://es.tldp.org/
    Manuales-LuCAS/padre-howto/] Padre-HOWTO.
   

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1.2. Proposed new documents

  * Howard Shane sent in a proposal for a Scanner HOWTO
   
  * Weldon Goree [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4388:200305:
    moabfbbcgplpcncljjjn] proposed a HOWTO on what dual-booting and
    multi-booting are and how to do them.
   

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1.3. Submitted for review

  * Daniel Nofftz's announced that his Athlon Powersaving HOWTO is ready for
    review.
   

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2. Updates

2.1. HOWTOs

After the problems were solved last week, a whole bunch of pending upgrades
came through:

  * Anders Jensen-Urstad supplies us with v1.5 of the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/
    Game-Server-HOWTO/] Game Server HOWTO and Peter Jay Salzman mailed
    v0.9.22 of the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Gamers-HOWTO/] The Linux
    Gamers' HOWTO.
   
  * Alavoor Vasudevan sent in yet another update for the [http://tldp.org/
    HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/] Kernel HOWTO, which is now at v5.7. He also moved
    the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO/] Vim Color Editor HOW-TO to
    DocBook.
   
  * The [http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/] Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide v1.8,
    by Mendel Cooper.
   
  * Also by Peter Salzman: the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Debian-Jigdo/]
    Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO.
   
  * Skip Rye worked on v1.8 of the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/
    Optical-Disk-HOWTO.html] Linux Optical Disk HOWTO.
   
  * Svetoslav Slavtchev, one of the new TLDP authors, send in the first
    update to the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/] XFree
    Local Multi-User HOWTO.
   
  * Saqib Ali sent in [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO
    /] the DocBook XML/SGML Processing Using OpenJade HOWTO, v2.2.5.
   

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3. Happenings in the LDP world

3.1. License on the LDP documents

 Colin Watson, who maintains the Debian packages for LDP documents sent in a
mail indicating that the old manifesto boilerplate license used on a number
of LDP documents was considered non-free by Debian legal. He sent in the note
that the Debian doc-linux-html and doc-linux-text packages will use the GNU
GPL, which is permitted by the [http://en.tldp.org/manifesto.html] clause 2.
David Lawyer however [http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/
debian-legal-200305/msg00245.html] noted that It's only requested (not
required) that the author be contacted in case of modifications which may not
render the license non-free.
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3.2. man pages

 Rahul Sundaram presented his opinion on man pages. He said that they cater
to the expert who already knows what s/he is dealing with and provided a few
examples. Antony E. Greene [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4408:
200305:foebgmckkcflneginjhc] said that there are two different needs
addressed by tutorial or step-by-step instructions like the HOWTOs and a
terse, but comprehensive man on info page. Howard Shane and Machtelt Garrels
were of the opinion that the LDP should offer its services to improve the
quality of man pages but that would be a difficult task with the resources at
the disposal of LDP.

 While on the thread, Greg Ferguson [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:
4409:200305:loceblldbelajghaloeg] asked if people would be interested in a
collection of man pages (filtered to HTML via man2html; browseable, etc.) on
the LDP site.

 During the course of the discussion, jdd wondered if there was some sort of
a locate_doc that could detect automatically all the documentation available
for an application. People suggested [http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/]
scrollkeeper and [http://packages.debian.org/stable/doc/dwww.html] dwww from
the Debian project.
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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 <
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.