LDP weekly news
[Posted October 28, 2003 by ris]
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The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
Issue Number : 27
Publication Date : 2003-10-29
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Table of Contents
1. New documents
1.1. Fresh-AT-LDP
1.2. Submitted for review
1.3. Proposed New Documents
2. Updates
2.1. HOWTOs
3. Feedback and Contributions
1. New documents
1.1. Fresh-AT-LDP
No new documents this week, but if you all help with the reviewing, we'll
soon have a couple of them for the next issue, see next section.
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1.2. Submitted for review
A lot of new documents this week for review:
* Manoj Warrier sent in the
[http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6116:200310:mfmfhldbnmphljajklim]
first submission of his Scientific computing on GNU/Linux using
free software HOWTO, which is already
[http://SciLinux.sourceforge.net] available from Sourceforge.
* Another first submission, this one from Thomas Miglinci, is the
[http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6122:200310:peoehkdflgbepalcfodc]
SIMpad HOWTO, dealing with the installation and configuration of Linux
on the Siemens Web Tablet.
* And yet another first-timer: the
[http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6124:200310:cndldkmfnfphflbbcfba]
Linux Kernel 0.01 Commentary, by Pramode C.E.
Apart from that, we received these submissions for existing documents:
* From Miroslav Skoric,
[http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6172:200310:akfanghehooklaknddfk]
updates for his FBB mini-HOWTO, LILO mini-HOWTO and
Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO.
* From Leo Cooper: the
[http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6175:200310:bcpajhjdjpmbcfdjegck]
Advanced Bash Scripting Guide v2.2.
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1.3. Proposed New Documents
* Ivan A. Uemlianin sent in a detailed proposal for a CMU Sphinx HOWTO.
[http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/] CMU Sphinx is a suite of free
software for speech recognition.
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2. Updates
2.1. HOWTOs
* We published v2.1 of Luigi Bitonti's
[http://tldp.org/HOWTO/RedHat-CD-HOWTO/] RedHat CD HOWTO,
it now contains tips on how to burn your own RedHat 9 CDs.
* Rick Moen added a couple more LUGs to his list, the
[http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html] Linux User Group HOWTO
is now at v1.7.2.
* The [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bangla-HOWTO/] Bangla HOWTO is a joint effort
of Taneem Ahmed, Santanu Chatterjee, Progga and Sayamindu Dasgupta,
explaining how to add Bengali (Bangla) support on your GNU/Linux. v1.1.3
now.
* Daniel Quintiliani's
[http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Windows-Newsreaders-under-Linux-HOWTO/] Windows
Newsreaders under Linux HOWTO v2.01 contains a lot of corrections
and a promise to add more news readers to this document.
* For making an informed decision on buying a SPARC machine for Linux, we
have the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SPARC-HOWTO.html] SPARC HOWTO, modestly
versioned v0.0.5, by "Lionel, trollhunter Bouchpan-Lerust-Juéry".
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3. Feedback and Contributions
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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.
