LDP Weekly News

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 19
Publication Date : 2004-05-12
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Table of Contents
1. New document proposals
2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
3. News in The LDP world
4. HOWTO contribute to The LDP

1. New document proposals

The discuss mailinglist was teeming with new initiatives this week:

  * Christian Schnobrich wants to write a HOWTO about 
   [ http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7221:200405:gcmileclkfhpkbbhmnef ]
    small and silent
    servers. The focus would be on using old(er) hardware that can be tuned
    to make less noise, for use in the home office or shared private network.
   
  * All hope is not lost for getting an up to date document into TLDP that
    discusses Enterprise Java on Linux. "Chase" 
    [ http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7206:200405:oijdjcnlaebpnckdlgpa ]
    gives an outline of his ideas.
   
  * Steve Kemp 
    [ http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7252:200405:ecpjlcneojlbednmdldj ]
     has some ideas for a source code auditing HOWTO,
    for which he doesn't find anything comparable in our collection as it is
    now.
   

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2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

  * New in the [ http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO/ ] Athlon
    Powersaving HOWTO v1.1.4, by Daniel Nofftz: sis chipset commandline hack
    changed, new sound fix, new patch for the 2.6.5 kernel.
   
  * AJ Lewis has updated FAQ entries for LVM2 in v0.11 of his 
    [ http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ ] LVM HOWTO.
   
  * Upon 
    [ http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:9071:200405:lbmnkmolejjbeapdhhpb ]
    request of the author, Daniel Barlow, the GCC HOWTO
    has been removed from our collection. He argues that topics covered in
    the HOWTO, such as installing GCC, are a non-issue today.
   
  * Emma Jane also contacted the maintainer of the 3Dfx HOWTO, Michael
    Scherer, who 
    [ http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:9072:200405:gjeegggphbeamigcfdfg ]
    asked to move his document into the unmaintained
    section, because it proved to be effort than profit for him.
   

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3. News in The LDP world

  * Linux Documentation: What's There and What's Needed
   
    Andy Oram posted an interesting and well written article titled Linux
    Documentation: What's There and What's Needed. The web-log entry is a
    condensed form of a talk given by Andy at LinuxWorld in January 2004. The
    article discusses the state of Linux Documentation and mentions the LDP
    in general terms.
   
  * TLDP CD now also at LinuxCentral
   
    The "unofficial"TLDP CD-ROM, for people with low bandwidth or low
    patience levels can be obtained from 
    [ http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/index.php3?prod_code=L000-214 ]
    LinuxCentral. As Bradley Glonka, long-time
    contributor to the LinuxCentral project puts it: "We don't expect to make
    big money with this CD release. Some people think our project is just the
    Nth flat commerce initiative, but we really feel that we are part of the
    community. We once sent an official copy of Debian to all the Debian
    developers."
   
    LinuxCentral is donating part of the revenue, accumulated by selling this
    CD, to the TLDP project. Thanks, guys!
   
  * Copyright Infringement of Linux Dictionary
   
    The people over at linuxdig.com must have failed to read the copyright
    notice that comes with our
    [ http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html ] 
    Linux Dictionary, by Binh Nguyen. We kindly ask to give
    credit where credit is due, and to respect our authors.
   
    Binh already sent a notice to these people to bring the matter to their
    attention, but so far, nobody reacted. Binh Nguyen would like to talk to
    lawyers and take steps if the copyright violation continues.
   

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4. HOWTO contribute to The LDP

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.