LDP Weekly News

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 28
Publication Date : 2003-11-05
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Table of Contents
1. New documents
    1.1. Proposed new documents
   
   
2. Updates
    2.1. HOWTOs
    2.2. Guides
   
   
3. Happenings in the LDP world
    3.1. TLDP-ES/LuCAS unreachable
    3.2. LDP author tools RPM packages
    3.3. Linux+XFS HOWTO maintenance
    3.4. Linux SAG guide maintenance
   
   
4. Feedback and Contributions

1. New documents

1.1. Proposed new documents

  * Niko Sauer has written some interesting things about [http://
    lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6206:200311:paomefdmeppfbonhpnbd] USB
    memory sticks and would like to know what you think about it.
   
  * Lars Strand [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5174:200311:
    abimfngadhibogkclfmk] proposed a Mobile IPv6 HOWTO. A draft version is
    available at [http://www.gnist.org/~lars/work/insc/mipv6/] http://
    www.gnist.org/~lars/work/insc/mipv6/.
   

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2. Updates

2.1. HOWTOs

  * Here it is in one-dot-oh!: the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/]
    Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO, by Peter Jay Salzman.
   
  * After the fashion of the [http://koeln.ccc.de/prozesse/writing/artikel/
    hacker-werden.html] Wie werde ich Hacker HOWTO ([http://
    babelfish.altavista.com/] Babelfish might be required), TLDP has its own
    HOWTO-become-a-guru doc, the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO/]
    Linux Reading List HOWTO. This list is what Eric Steven Raymond considers
    to be essential reading if you want to become a UNIX/Linux programmer.
    The list is revision v2.1 now.
   
  * Alavoor Vasudevan's C-C++ Beautifier HOWTO v16.7. He also tries to keep
    the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/] Linux Kernel HOWTO up to date.
    He sent in an update to his [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO/] Vim Color
    Editor HOW-TO.
   
  * Did you know that Miroslav "Misko" Skoric's [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/
    FBB.html] FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO contains a section on how to
    [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB-11.html] communicate with LinFBB in Serbian?
    Check it out, preferably in the latest version, 1.26.
   
    As usual, Miroslav's updates come in threes: you also get the [http://
    tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html] LILO mini-HOWTO, v3.15, and the [http://
    tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html] Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO, v2.15.
   
  * Rick Moen found some more interesting sources of Linux information and
    listed them in v1.7.3 of his [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/
    User-Group-HOWTO.html] Linux User Group HOWTO
   
  * Jean-Daniel Dodin's Partition-Rescue HOWTO has been converted to docbook
    and the new version is under the LGPL.
   

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2.2. Guides

Mendel Cooper promises v2.2 of his [http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/] Advanced
Bash-Scripting Guide to be full of exiting new examples demonstrating all the
"nifty things" you can do with Bash arrays, and much more!
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3. Happenings in the LDP world

3.1. TLDP-ES/LuCAS unreachable

Ismael Olea sent in an update telling us that the Spanish LDP folks are down
because of a disk failure and they are working on fixing it.
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3.2. LDP author tools RPM packages

Rodolfo J. Paiz [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5163:200311:
ehngfbpnepphojhokgdn] summarized his findings on, what packages form parts of
the authoring tools RPM packages on his RedHat 9 based system. This is his 
package list descriptions page. On a Debian GNU/Linux based system, the
packages that provide for these capabilities can be installed from the
linuxdoc-tools and the docbook-utils Debian packages.
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3.3. Linux+XFS HOWTO maintenance

Russel Ingram, the maintainer for the [www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+XFS-HOWTO/]
Linux+XFS HOWTO feels that the document is out of its useful life as several
linux distributions offer XFS at installation time. He plans to move the
document to the unmaintained section of the HOWTOs and welcomes anyone who
feels they can turn this back into an up to date and useful document. Contact
Russel at ringram at gargoylecc.com if you are interested.
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3.4. Linux SAG guide maintenance

Alex Weeks would be maintaining the Linux System Administrator Guide for
novices., taking it over from Stephen Stafford. If you would like to help
Alex as a co-maintainer, get in touch with him.
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4. Feedback and Contributions

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LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach
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