LDP Weekly News

TLDP Weekly News

Issue Number : 6
Publication Date : 2003-05-27
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Table of Contents
1. LDP guides
2. New documents
    2.1. Fresh@LDP
    2.2. Proposed new documents
   
   
3. Updates
    3.1. HOWTOs
   
   
4. Happenings in the LDP world
    4.1. Online editor for DocBook
   
   
5. Feedback and Contributions

1. LDP guides

When talking about TLDP, people often forget about the Guides section. Check
out our collection of the longer, in-depth documents!
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2. New documents

2.1. Fresh@LDP

There were no 1.0s announced by Greg this week, however our Spanish
colleagues added a document titled [http://es.tldp.org/Manuales-LuCAS/blfs-es
/] Más Allá de Linux From Scratch, which is a continuation of the [http://
www.ibiblio.org/mdw/LDP/lfs/html/index.html] Linux From Scratch guide,
including support for X, sound, printers and more.
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2.2. Proposed new documents

  *  Guylhem Aznar is thinking about a FAQ on Using the keypad under X and
    has [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4433:200305:
    olbeodcabjmcmlibbidb] requested information on certain problems that
    people seem to face.
   

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3. Updates

3.1. HOWTOs

We received updates for the following HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs:

  * The [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Xterminals/] Connecting X Terminals to
    Linux Mini-HOWTO v1.2 by Salvador J. Peralta
   
  * David Horton sent in v1.1 of the [http://tldp.org/LDP/Pocket-Linux-Guide/
    html/] Pocket Linux Guide.
   
  * A dot-oh, but it's v2.0 of the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO/]
    Linux 2.4 SCSI subsystem HOWTO, by Douglas Gilbert.
   
  * Svetoslav Slavtchev is still polishing the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/
    XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/index.html] XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO,
    remember, the new HOWTO covering the connection of multiple monitors,
    soundcards, keyboards etc. to one server.
   

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4. Happenings in the LDP world

4.1. Online editor for DocBook

 Stein Gjoen [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4441:200305:
jbdbakjaacfndkmflfhi] posted a URL to his LDP HOWTO Generator. Nicolas
Chauvat however, said that doing something similar in PHP would be
re-inventing the wheel and pointed the list to [http://demo.plone.org]
demo.plone.org and the Archetypes documentation to get started.

 Elsewhere, David Merrill posted an update to wt2db (WikiText to DB) and
announced that he was getting back to work on [http://www.lampadas.org/]
Lampadas. Nicolas Chauvat would be updating him with the things that have
moved forward since David was last involved.
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4.1. DFSG analysis of default LDP license

 Since many of the mini-HOWTOs are under the default LDP license, Branden
Robinson subjected the default LDP license to a Debian Free Software
Guidelines [http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200305/
msg00282.html] analysis and proposed several changes to it. People further
discussed the license and the changes on the the debian-legal mailing list.
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5. 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.