LDP Weekly News

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 5
Publication Date : 2004-02-04
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Table of Contents
1. New documents @ TLDP
2. New document proposals
3. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
4. News in The LDP world
    4.1. ISBN numbers for TLDP documents
   
   
5. HOWTO contribute to TLDP

1. New documents @ TLDP

As Eric S. Raymond, author of the 
[Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO]
puts it, this document explains "how to get various proprietary and
restricted multimedia Damned Things working" under Fedora Core. If you have
problems getting MPEG, Flash, Java applications, RealMedia or MP3 to run,
here's the place to start. Eric documents the standard tools and various free
packages that you can add to your system.
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2. New document proposals

  * Kai Schlachter had troubles upgrading his glibc. He documented the
    procedure so as other people won't suffer like he did. He wants to submit
    his [http://www.murphyslantech.de/linux/glibc-howto/glibcinstall.pdf]
    Glibc HOWTO to our collection and awaits your comments. David Horton
    already [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6587:200401:neekgpjhpiplegfacnmj]
    made some suggestions.
   
  * Michael Schlenstedt proposed to write a Linux ISDN HOWTO. Michael's
    document would give some background information about ISDN and Linux and
    explain howto handle installations of i4l as well as capi. A detailed
    table of contents was posted to the discuss list.
   
  * Steve Peace proposed to document the procedure for installing and
    configuring qmail-scanner and ClamAV virus scanner software as a HOWTO
    for TLDP. A draft version is available for comment.
   

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3. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

  * The [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/] Hardware HOWTO, by Steven
    Pritchard, has finally been updated after a long period of inactivity.
    Version 3.2.2 contains information on the Athlon64 CPUs; the video card
    section has been updated; notes are added for the IDE RAID 3ware
    8000-series cards; there is more info about SATA (serial ATA or disk
    controllers in plain English) and a configuration update for Western
    Digital drives.
   
  * Jorge Godoy, David Merrill, Mark Komarinski and Emma Jane Hogbin help you
    to better help us with v4.1 of the LDP Author Guide. This version has
    updates on the license recommendations for docs that you submit to TLDP.
   
  * Revision 1.1 of Lars Strand's [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Mobile-IPv6-HOWTO/]
    Mobile-IPv6-HOWTO comes with information on "Traveling through several
    foreign LAN's" and "Returning home" and a few other minor document
    re-structuring changes.
   

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4. News in The LDP world

4.1. ISBN numbers for TLDP documents

Machtelt Garrels posted the procedure for obtaining an ISBN number for a
document of hers in Belgium. She hopes this will add to TLDP credentials give
it a more serious look.
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5. HOWTO contribute to TLDP

The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing free, high
quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help
TLDP, consider joining <discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org>.

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(mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events related to free
software documentation. Write to us at <feedback@en.tldp.org>.

The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y Giridhar
Appaji Nag with help from several other people.