LDP Weekly News
[Posted October 7, 2003 by ris]
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| LDP Weekly News |
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| Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:04:38 -0400 |
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The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
Issue Number : 24
Publication Date : 2003-10-07
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Table of Contents
1. New documents
1.1. Fresh-AT-LDP
1.2. Proposed new documents
1.3. Submitted for review
2. Updates
2.1. HOWTOs
3. Happenings in the LDP world
3.1. Birthday Wishes from Lars Wirzenius
3.2. Stale LDP Documents
3.3. Govt. Support for Linux
3.4. Linux Kernel 0.01 Commentary
4. Feedback and Contributions
1. New documents
1.1. Fresh-AT-LDP
* The [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Traffic-Control-HOWTO/] Traffic Control HOWTO
by Martin A. Brown explains the implementation of queuing, scheduling,
shaping and dropping of packets on Linux.
* Our German friends translated the [http://www.linuxhaven.de/dlhp/HOWTO/
DE-LVM-HOWTO.html] LVM HOWTO a while ago, apparently, but it only got
announced on the Deutsches Linux HOWTO Projekt homepage
[http://www.linuxhaven.de/dlhp/news.html] last week.
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1.2. Proposed new documents
This section would have been empty again if it wasn't for the initiative of
your weekly news editors ;-)
* We decided to support Sergiusz Pawlowicz's proposal for a HOWTO stand up
and turn off TV. We would like this document to be a joint effort, and
since you've had some time to think about it, we gather that by now you
probably have to refrain yourselves from sending in a mail to us to share
your ideas ;-)
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1.3. Submitted for review
* Armin would like to find out if anyone can use his
[http://qwuh.no-ip.com/oracle/]
Oracle 6i Forms and Reports Server and Client HOWTO. Have a
look and let him know!
* Daniel Nofftz submitted v1.1.0 of his Athlon Powersaving HOWTO, but
requests us to bear with him until it has been reviewed.
* Clemens Lee submitted the first version of the
[http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5986:200310:ekpomcffjchcfdnmmlci]
Debian Binary Package Building HOWTO, which explains how to create .deb
packages. However, he's not happy with the title and awaits suggestions
to change it. This is the chance for those readers who are always
sighing how they can't contribute anything to Open Source because
they're just not the technical kind of person. You don't have to know
anything about Linux in order to help TLDP authors to create good
documents. Sometimes it's enough to just come up with a bit of
inspiration for a good title!
* Miroslav Skoric sent in
[http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5997:200310:akfanghehooklaknddfk]
several updates: he is the author of the
[http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/FBB.html] FBB Packet Radio mini-HOWTO,
the [http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/LILO.html] LILO mini-HOWTO and the
[http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html] Linux+WinNT
mini-HOWTO. Don't mix up that last one with Bernd Reichert's
[http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html] NT OS Loader + Linux
mini-HOWTO!
* From Ian Ward we received for review the
[http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6001:200310:lgilnlolmnaihmeogdcl]
Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO, v1.2.
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2. Updates
2.1. HOWTOs
* It is hard to keep track with David Lawyer. Here is v2.20 of his
[http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html] Serial HOWTO.
* Read Eric Raymond's
[http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO/index.html]
Unix and Internet Fundamentals HOWTO for a kickstart no-nonsense
introduction to computers, Linux and Internet.
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3. Happenings in the LDP world
3.1. Birthday Wishes from Lars Wirzenius
The formal TLDP 10th anniversary news was sent out by Stein Gjoen. Lars
Wirzenius seems to recall that TLDP started as early as 1992 and possibly
before that. Is it the said truth of the information age that we forget our
history? Next thing we know, there have always been flying cars and brain
plugins around...
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3.2. Stale LDP Documents
If you are unhappy about the status of a document that has not been updated
since some time, you should be able to replace the original document after
writing if from scratch (for copyright reasons)
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3.3. Govt. Support for Linux
Though Off-topic, Shuvam Mishra's
[ http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5080:200310:pocfhjbaeomncpdegppj ]
update on the Indian government's support for free software is interesting.
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3.4. Linux Kernel 0.01 Commentary
If you had problems accessing the Linux Kernel Commentary v0.01 by Pramode C.
E., you should try accessing his
[ http://pramode2.tripod.com/kerneldocs/ ]
updated URL.
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4. Feedback and Contributions
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quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. Announcements about
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Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the community
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LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach
and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.
