LDP Weekly News

TLDP Weekly News

Issue Number : 14
Publication Date : 2003-07-29
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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. Guides
   
   
3. Happenings in the LDP world
    3.1. merge of mini-HOWTOs
    3.2. LDP Author Guide/DocBook, Xml, Jade etc.
   
   
4. Feedback and Contributions

1. New documents

1.1. Fresh@LDP

Only one new document this week, but a very impressive one: Binh Nguyen
released the first official version of the Linux Dictionary. With nearly 9000
entries, this is one of the most complete references currently available.
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1.2. Proposed new documents

These new ideas this week:

  * Mark Hoebeke wants to target the novice developers HOWTO with a [http://
    lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4757:200307:fcgicpacfnndhgpgbckc]
    mini-HOWTO about the GNU auto-tools, such as automake, autoconf and 
    libtoolize. His proposal was received very positively.
   
  * Carsten Kolassa wants to write what he would like to call the [http://
    lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4772:200307:egongnhkkehbbbfdeaoj]
    Network-Programming HOWTO, discussing among other topics how to write to
    and read from a socket, how to write simple servers and sniffers. His
    primary goal is to write in C, but Carsten plans on adding C++, Perl and
    Java examples as well.
   
  * Machtelt Garrels wants to contribute a document called [http://
    lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4790:200307:hlbjhhhgndppbpgjlhlo] LDAP
    Operations HOWTO, which is intended to link the [http://www.ibiblio.org/
    mdw/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO/index.html] LDAP HOWTO with the [http://
    www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/LDAP-Implementation-HOWTO/index.html] LDAP
    Implementation HOWTO.
   

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1.3. Submitted for review

  * Another revision of Howard Shane's [http://66.25.191.66/docs/HOWTOS/
    Scanner/index.html] Scanner-HOWTO is available for review.
   
  * If you don't have a local Linux User Group yet, click through to the
    [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5410:200307:fmmbocmbfdobkmphigeo]
    Linux User Group HOWTO. Note that this document is now maintained by Rick
    Moen, who took over from Kendall Clark.
   

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2. Updates

2.1. Guides

  * Our Spanish colleagues finished the revision of the [http://es.tldp.org/
    Manuales-LuCAS/doc-progmodlinux/doc-progmodlinux-html/] Guía de
    Programación de Módulos del Núcleo Linux. The original document, the
    [http://tldp.org/guides.html] Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide is
    authored by Peter J. Salzman and Ori Pomerantz; the Spanish translation
    is the work of Rubén Melcón Fariña, assisted by Óscar Sanz Lorenzo
    and Francisco Javier Fernández.
   

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3. Happenings in the LDP world

3.1. merge of mini-HOWTOs

  Greg Ferguson sent in an [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4776:
200307:igknncpmmhojbkamcnmn] update indicating that the list of HOWTOs and
mini-HOWTOs have been merged and there is just one master (combined) list in
the HOWTO-INDEX vs. the current two and only one set of tar files per
document variant vs. the current two.
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3.2. LDP Author Guide/DocBook, Xml, Jade etc.

  Simon Anderson was [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4795:200307:
oohajcenhkhogihndlam] frustrated with the LDP author guide and DocBook, and
wondered why the LDP used DocBook even though "Everyone reads HOWTOs in html
anyway". In response Chris Karakas [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:
4833:200307:eiekdlajdgeofpemfdln] explained why the separation of
presentation of content from the content itself was important. Several people
had [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4815:200307:pjodbfhkoeponcdaajjl]
suggestions for Simon Anderson to deal with [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?
1:mss:4829:200307:oohajcenhkhogihndlam]  the problems that he was facing.
Tabatha also [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4815:200307:
pjodbfhkoeponcdaajjl] mentioned that the author guide was being reviewed and
revamped by Emma Jane Hogbin.
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4. Feedback and Contributions

 You can help The Linux Documentation Project by:

  * Reviewing one of the draft versions of the [http://www.tldp.org/authors/
    inprogress.html] documents in progress.
   
  * Picking up one of the [http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html]
    unmaintained documents.
   
  * Providing assistance with [http://www.tldp.org/authors/markup.html]
    markup.
   

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