LDP Weekly News

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 6
Publication Date : 2004-02-11
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Table of Contents
1. New documents @ TLDP
2. Documents submitted for review
3. New document proposals
4. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
5. News in The LDP world
    5.1. Acer Laptop HOWTO removed
    5.2. French LDP effort
   
   
6. HOWTO contribute to TLDP

1. New documents @ TLDP

  * Adrian Offerman surprises us with v1.0 of 
[http://tldp.org/HOWTO/MMBase-Inst-HOWTO/]
    the MMBase Installation HOWTO, which describes the
    installation of this content management system on RedHat Linux using
    Tomcat as an application server. He also provides info on how to
    integrate it with MySQL and Apache.
   

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2. Documents submitted for review

  * Steve Peace submitted a document called the 
[http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:7432:200402:idpiipmjacehkhjeihdh]
    Qmail-scanner+Clamav
    HOWTO, detailing the installation of the ClamAV GPL'ed anti-virus toolkit
    on a Qmail server. Steve awaits your comments on this initial draft.
   
  * Lars Strand updated his 
[http://www.gnist.org/~lars/work/insc/code/Mobile-IPv6-HOWTO-v11.tar.bz2]
    Mobile IPv6 HOWTO with new images, two new sections and error fixes.
   
  * Peter J. Salzman submitted v1.0.1 of the 
[http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:7444:200402:hhejdlmpfpjpmpaiafjd]
    Linux Gamer's HOWTO, LG HOWTO for short.
   
  * David Jao is looking for reviewers for his DVD Playback HOWTO. The
    document describes how to view DVD movies on a Linux computer with a DVD
    drive and also helps troubleshoot common problems.
   

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3. New document proposals

  * Lars Strand wrote an Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) IPv6
    HOWTO for Linux, and would like to submit it to the LDP for inclusion in
    the collection. Comments on the above document are welcome.
   
  * David Lawyer suggested that a 
[http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6659:200402:aoajnioenajphdefnbnn]
    one-page intro to LinuxDoc might be a
    good idea. Machtelt Garrels offered to write a 
[http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6661:200402:ahmedfjihleniifjcpbo]
    DocBook counterpart.
   

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4. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

  * Eric S. Raymond's [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO/] Linux
    Reading List HOWTO has reached v3.0. Dot-zero always indicates a major
    update. From this one all out-of-date books have been removed and a
    couple of new ones have been added.
   
  * V2.22 of Daniel Quintiliani's 
    [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Windows-Newsreaders-under-Linux-HOWTO/]
    Windows Newsreaders under Linux HOWTO contains minor corrections.
   
  * The Introduction to Linux guide by Machtelt Garrels has an ISB Number and
    a few formatting changes. The document is being translated to Hindi by 
    Alok Kumar.
   

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5. News in The LDP world

5.1. Acer Laptop HOWTO removed

Harish Tampi has requested the removal of the Acer Laptop HOWTO due to a lack
of time from his part to keep it up to date. However, info for this brand of
portables can be found at [http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html] the
Linux on Laptops site, section Acer Laptop and Notebook Computers, or at
[http://www.tuxmobile.org/acer.html] Tuxmobile, which hosts a similar page.
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5.2. French LDP effort

You might have noticed that the French translation effort, 
[http://fr.tldp.org/], has been pretty motionless for a long
time. However, the Traduc site is quite active.

Apart from regular news updates, this sites features the traduc po, which
allows tracking of the state of translations for different packages. Also
worth noticing is the translation to French of the 
[http://www.traduc.org/docs/lgazette/etat_gazette.php?1..2]
Linux Gazette.
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6. 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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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.