The LDP Weekly News

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 26
Publication Date : 2005-09-14
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Table of Contents
1. News in The LDP world
2. Discussions on The LDP lists
3. New documents @ The LDP
4. Documents submitted for review
5. New document proposals
6. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
7. Mirror information update
8. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO

1. News in The LDP world

  * Checking for inactive maintainers
   
    Machtelt Garrels, newly appointed Review Coordinator, took a dive into
    the HOWTO collection. All authors of inactive documents (not updated this
    year) were contacted and asked if they planned to update their documents
    any time soon. The results of the effort are available. In case you can
    get in touch with any of the inactive document authors and maintainers of
    the documents that you use often, please send in the information to the <
    feedback@en.tldp.org> address.
   

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2. Discussions on The LDP lists

  * Modernizing TLDP:
   
    August was a busy month on the <discuss@en.tldp.org> mailinglist. The
    pros and cons of a wiki for TLDP were discussed, and finally it was
    decided that it wouldn't be a bad idea to have wiki pages for those
    HOWTOs that seem abandoned. Pradeep Padala and jdd made 
    a summary of the discussion.
   
  * HOWTOs for Hardware
   
    While on the discussion about the demo page that was setup by jdd at
    http://dodin.org/~tldp/mw/index.php/Main_Page,
    Saqib Ali said that TLDP as it currently exist
    should now retire as most of the HOWTOs (including ones authored by him)
    are not needed anymore, since the linux distros and other opensource apps
    have started producing excellent documentation. David Lawyer 
    responded saying "There is more need than ever for HOWTOs covering
    hardware. The apps seldom cover hardware and if they do, may not cover it
    adequately. One problem is that there is a lot of hardware that doesn't
    work with Linux due to Windows-only drivers. In other cases the hardware
    will work under Linux but doesn't have all its features supported by the
    Linux driver. Also, some hardware is defective in design, but will still
    work if the driver has a workaround. Currently, there's only limited
    coverage of hardware by HOWTOs and much of it is out-of-date."
   

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3. New documents @ The LDP

  * Gaurav Prasad described the
  http://tldp.org/HOWTO/...
    installation procedures of Oracle 9i on Fedora Core 3.
   
  * The Linux Laptop HOWTO was archived and replaced with Werner Heuser's
  http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Mobile-Guide/html/index.html
    Linux on the Road
    or Linux Mobile guide. Though there are laptop, notebook, PDA and mobile
    phone related HOWTOs available already, this guide contains a concise
    survey of documents related to mobile computer devices. Also Linux
    features, such as installation methods for laptops, notebooks and PDAs as
    well as configurations for different (network) environments are
    described. And though there are some caveats, Linux is a good choice for
    mobile computing devices than most other operating systems because it
    supports numerous installation methods, works in many heterogeneous
    environments and needs fewer resources.
   

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4. Documents submitted for review

  * Nicolas Dufour submitted the
http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:9435:...
    Linux Aviation HOWTO, containing a summary
    of useful software for pilots and navigators.
   
  * Review is ongoing for the
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/MP3-HOWTO.html
    MP3 HOWTO by Phil Kerr.
   
  * A new maintainer was found for the
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/
    Security-Quickstart-Redhat-HOWTO/index.html Security Quick-Start HOWTO
    for Red Hat Linux, the
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/...
     Security Quick-Start HOWTO for Linux and the
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XWindow-User-HOWTO/index.html
    The X Window User HOWTO; these are currently
http://tldp.org/authors/...
    being reviewed.
   

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5. New document proposals

  * Stuart Ellis

http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:sss:9638:200509:
    proposed an SSH HOWTO and got the go-ahead.
   
  * Kave Aryan had to write a filesystem as part of his final project at the
    University of Teheran and wants to

http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:
    contribute his documentation about this.
   
  * Nishant Sharma wants to write something about the

http://lists.tldp.org/
    Sierra Wireless PC-Card
    which is offered country-wide by an Indian ISP.
   

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6. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

  * Steven Pritchard:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ Linux Hardware
    Compatibility HOWTO
   
  * Nils Radtke:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-Bridge-netfilter-HOWTO.html
    Ethernet Bridge + netfilter Howto
   
  * AJ Lewis:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ LVM HOWTO
   
  * Avi Alkalay:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/
   Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux
   
  * Bryan Henderson:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/ Linux Loadable
    Kernel Module HOWTO
   
  * Lars Wirzenius, Joanna Oja, Stephen Stafford, and Alex Weeks:
    http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html The
    Linux System Administrators' Guide
   
  * Daniel Nofftz:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO/
Athlon Powersaving HOWTO
   
  * Werner Heuser: 
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Ecology-HOWTO/ Linux Ecology-HOWTO
   
  * Ian Ward: 
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/
    Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO
   
  * Chr. Clemens Lee: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/
    Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/ Debian Binary Package Building
    HOWTO
   
  * David S.Lawyer: 
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html
    Plug-and-Play-HOWTO
   
  * Thomas Chiverton: 
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Compaq-T1500-HOWTO/
    CompaqT1500-Linux HOWTO
   
  * Jean-Philippe Gerard: 
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Online-Troubleshooting-HOWTO
 Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO
   
  * Mendel Cooper: 
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html Advanced
    Bash-Scripting Guide
   
  * Machtelt Garrels: 
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/
    Bash Beginner's Guide
   
  * John Eikenberry: 
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/AI-Alife-HOWTO.html GNU/Linux AI
    & Alife HOWTO
   
  * Ram Samudrala: 
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Cluster-HOWTO.html Linux Cluster
    HOWTO
   
  * Machtelt Garrels: 
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html
    Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide
   

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7. Mirror information update

The following are the latest additions to our 
http://www.tldp.org/ list of mirrors:

  * 
http://www.linuxadm.com/LDP 
http://www.linuxadm.com/LDP maintained by
    Tony Escujuri in Mesa, Arizona, USA.
   
  * 
http://slugphils.homelinux.org/LDP

http://slugphils.homelinux.org/LDP
    maintained by Michael Balcos in Quezon City, Metro Manila, The
    Philippines.
   
  * 
http://www.bangladesh-linux-info.org/ http://
    www.bangladesh-linux-info.org/ maintained by Tom Sonsuwan in Texas, USA.
   
  * 
http://tldp.ugm.ac.id 
http://tldp.ugm.ac.id maintained by Taufik
    Suryawan Edyna in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
   
  * http://ldp.oslookup.org http://ldp.oslookup.org maintained by
    Constantinos Laitsas in Frankfurt, Germany.
   
  * http://legion.besove.org/ldp/ http://legion.besove.org/ldp/ maintained
    by Peio Popov in Sofia, Bulgaria.
   
  * http://www.linux-diary.net/LDP http://www.linux-diary.net/LDP
    maintained in Frederick, Maryland, USA.
   
  * http://ldp.lug.md/ http://ldp.lug.md/ maintained by Grigore Raileanu in
    Chisinau, Moldavia.
   

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8. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO

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