The LDP Weekly News

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 11
Publication Date : 2004-03-17
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Table of Contents
1. New documents @ TLDP
2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
3. News in The LDP world
    3.1. Mirroring TLDP
    3.2. Spotlight on TLDP
    3.3. TLDP Tools Page
   
   
4. HOWTO contribute to TLDP

1. New documents @ TLDP

Niko Sauer finished the procedures for submitting and revising his USB Flash
Memory HOWTO. It describes both VFAT and ext2 formatting of the devices and
also has notes on how to support them with a 2.6 kernel. Nico is the
practical sort of person: he includes a section about making the memory
sticks accessible to users and one about maintenance. You can try it out
immediately on your [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/11/139207&mode=
thread&tid=159&tid=186] Swiss army knife!
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2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

  * Claudio Cattazzo from the [http://it.tldp.org] ILDP was so kind as to
    announce the translations into Italian of the following documents:
   
      + [http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-Compile-HOWTO/index.html] The
        Apache-Compile-HOWTO
       
      + [http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-Install/index.html] The
        DocBook-Install HOWTO
       
      + [http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO/index.html]
        DocBook XML/SGML Processing Using OpenJade
       
      + [http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/index.html] The
        Linux+IPv6-HOWTO
       
      + [http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html] The NIS HOWTO
       
      + [http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/index.html] The
        Program-Library-HOWTO
       
      + [http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html] The Quota HOWTO
       
      + [http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO/index.html] The Security
        HOWTO
       
   
    A big Thank You goes to Michele Ferritto, Giuseppe Briotti, Beatrice
    Torracca, Daniele Masini, Fabio Zanotti, Riccardo Vianello, Alessio
    Rolleri and Elisabetta Galli for translating and reviewing these
    documents.
   
  * Ari Makela updated the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Finnish-HOWTO/] Finnish
    HOWTO. Version 2.0.23 contains instructions for adapting Debian and some
    minor changes.
   
  * The [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html] Text Terminal HOWTO
    has been around for quite some time, but it is still useful and
    maintained, even though it discusses rather archaic hardware. New in
    v1.35: info on the Wyse 60 emulator.
   
  * Ralf Hölzer's [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/] Cryptoloop HOWTO
    v1.2 has a better comparison between Cryptoloop encryption and Loop-AES
    encryption of a partition, and more explanations on reasons to use either
    one or the other. Ralf also announces the deprecation of Cryptoloop in
    the 2.6 kernels, where it will be replaced by dm-crypt. While the code
    for dm-crypt is cleaner, it is still under development and thus far, no
    user-space tools are available.
   
  * Machtelt Garrels got some more input from readers and decided it's time
    to ask publication of v1.12 of the Introduction to Linux guide. This
    version includes notes on running gnome applications in KDE and vv., A
    new section on signals and stopping/re-nicing processes. The Xcdroast pic
    is deleted and KAudioCreator has been added.
   
  * Mendel Cooper has an update ready for the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide,
    another work that keeps on growing. This revision contains extra entries
    on different commands, documentation links, further comments in the
    examples and stylistic changes. Mendel maintains a full length 
    [http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/Change.log] ChangeLog too.
   
  * The v1p17 version of the Linux NetStation HOWTO. Kris Buytaert fixed some
    links in the document and would like to thank David Gilles for pointing
    out the mistakes.
   

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3. News in The LDP world

3.1. Mirroring TLDP

The [http://tldp.org/mirrors.html] TLDP mirror page is now up to date. After
a long period of blocking, Jens Hardings was the first to activate a 
[http://mirrors.csol.org/LDP/] new mirror in Chile.

We could do with some extra mirrors, for instance in Costa Rica, Croatia,
French Guiana, Indonesia, Macau, Pakistan, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russia and
Ukraine, where we have none for the moment (There is a 
[http://tille.soti.org/images/tldp-world.jpg]
cool world map of the TLDP mirrors). And we could
certainly do with some extra mirrors in China. Candidates, anyone? Contact us
through the <feedback@en.tldp.org> address!

Tille posted a summary of the update frequency of the mirrors and plans for
weeding out the out-of-date ones.
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3.2. Spotlight on TLDP

We've certainly know worse times as far as advertisement is concerned:

  * LinuxJournal features a 2-page 
    [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7433]
    article about TLDP history entitled "Inside TLDP, a
    behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Linux Documentation
    Project", which has been partly published before in TLDP WN issues 
    [http://tldp.org/ldpwn/20030617.html] 9/2003 and 
    [http://tldp.org/ldpwn/20030701.html]
    10/2003. The article contains explanations on the name
    change from LinuxDoc to TLDP and completes the history from the point on
    where it stopped in our last publication of the matter.
   

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3.3. TLDP Tools Page

Saqib Ali's popular tools for The LDP can be accessed directly from 
[http://tools.tldp.org/] Saqib's Online DocBook XML Validator
/ Transformer is also linked from there.
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4. 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>.

Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the community
(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.