LDP Weekly News

TLDP Weekly News

Issue Number : 11
Publication Date : 2003-07-08
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Table of Contents
1. New documents
    1.1. Proposed new documents
    1.2. Submitted for review
   
   
2. Updates
    2.1. HOWTOs
    2.2. Guides
   
   
3. Happenings in the LDP world
    3.1. Updated ldp-xsl stylesheets
    3.2. Fixed LDP CVS request form
    3.3. LDP Author Guide: New outline
    3.4. Re-indexed LDP documents
   
   
4. Feedback and Contributions

1. New documents

1.1. Proposed new documents

  * Wolfgang Fuschlberger [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4664:200307:
    bihoclgaklofcdbfodgc] proposed to summarize the process describing the
    setting up a Linux-Box to act as a public Web-Terminal. The only other
    document he could find describing a similar work is the Kiosk-HOWTO,
    which is rather outdated.
   
  * Emma Jane Hogbin [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4676:200307:
    ikndjmbepldekebhjjej] proposed to write a HOWTO on Multi-lingual
    Searching With ht://dig. A draft version is available at [http://
    xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/language.phtml] http://xtrinsic.com/geek/
    articles/language.phtml.
   

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1.2. Submitted for review

  * M. Gareth sent in his GNU Tools Linux summary for review, you can read it
    at [http://www.karakas-online.de/gnu_linux_tools_summary/t1.html] http://
    www.karakas-online.de/gnu_linux_tools_summary/t1.html.
   
  * Machtelt Garrels submitted a document entitled [http://tille.soti.org/
    training/bash] Bash for Beginners.
   
  * Eduardo Sztokbant sent in a proposal for a document describing [http://
    lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5259:200307:ggkdllnfmpnmjddcgofj] HOWTO
    plug you USB Sony DSC camera into your Linux box.
   
  * Simon Anderson put together a [http://oob.freeshell.org/nzwireless/
    LWAP-HOWTO.html] Linux Wireless Access Point HOWTO and would like to
    include the document in the LDP collection.
   
  * Binh announced that the Linux Dictionary Draft Publication is ready for
    interested people to take a look at [http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/]
    http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/.
   

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2. Updates

2.1. HOWTOs

We had a bit of delay, so here's to make it up to you:

  * Saqib Ali updated his [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO/]
    Apache-WebDAV-LDAP HOWTO, it is now at v4.0.
   
  * Thorsten Kukuk updated his [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/] Linux NIS
    (YP)/NYS/NIS+ HOWTO to v1.3.
   
  * Evgueni Tzvetanov renamed his first Oracle related HOWTO to include
    RedHat9. It is now called the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/
    Oracle-9i-RH8-and-RH9-HOWTO.html] Oracle-9i-RH8-and-RH9-HOWTO. Note that
    this is only a simple installation example.
   
  * Bryan Henderson sent us v1.03 of his [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO
    /] Linux Loadable Kernel Module HOWTO.
   
  * We also got v1.4 of the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/
    Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/] Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO, by Eric
    Steven Raymond.
   
  * And Gerardo Arnaez sent in v2.2.2 of the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/
    Wireless-Link-sys-WPC11/] Link-sys WPC11 Mini-HOWTO.
   
  * The [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TimePrecision-HOWTO/] TimePrecision-HOWTO by
    AviAlkalay explains the accurate management of date and time, this
    document is v1.0.5 now.
   
  * Al Dev submitted v6.1 of the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/] Linux
    Kernel HOWTO.
   
  * Emma Jane Hogbin summarizes the installation process for Advanced
    Configuration and Power Interface in her [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/
    ACPI-HOWTO/] ACPI HOWTO.
   

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2.2. Guides

  * Mendel Cooper sent in v1.9 of the [http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/]
    Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide.
   

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3. Happenings in the LDP world

3.1. Updated ldp-xsl stylesheets

David Horton [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?2:mss:441:200307:
lohjkpdcebjmjedplhpl] sent in an update indicating that he fixed the LDP XSL
stylesheets to work with docbook-xsl-1.61.3. The updated version is available
at [http://my.core.com/~dhorton/docbook/tldp-xsl/tldp-xsl-30jun2003.tar.gz]
tldp-xsl-30jun2003.tar.gz and David is interested in feedback.
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3.2. Fixed LDP CVS request form

Sergiusz Pawlowicz [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4666:200307:
dakblliambaibglandeb] announced that the broken LDP CVS account request form
was now fixed. In case you were waiting for your account to be created, fill
in the form once again at [http://tldp.org/cvs/] http://tldp.org/cvs/.
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3.3. LDP Author Guide: New outline

Emma Jane Hogbin felt that the [] LDP Author Guide was overwhelming to new
writers, and wrote a [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4692:200307:
ikndjmbepldekebhjjej] new outline for the same.
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3.4. Re-indexed LDP documents

 M. Lee Cooper had [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4671:200307:
gogpemcpgmjdagijfkka] suggestions for LDP study guides. Such a guide would
consist of a reading list of LDP documents, HOWTOs and Guides, on each topic.
Chris Karkas said that [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4675:200307:
abhpkacpeilgccjkfapm] re-indexing the HOWTOs under various criterion would be
of added value. However, a [http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/
categories.html] categorized list of HOWTOs is already available.
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4. Feedback and Contributions

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