The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 4
Publication Date : 2004-01-28

Table of Contents

1. New document proposals

2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

3. News in The LDP world

3.1. CD Distributions EN HOWTO removed
3.2. manpages from the IEEE and The Open Group

4. HOWTO contribute to TLDP

1. New document proposals

Jeff Horsager wants to write an SSH HOWTO. He motivates the proposal here. A lot of people responded positively and an outline started to form.
Jing S. Tang wrote a bootingUSB HOWTO. This document explains how to create a Linux bootable USB disk step by step. The target USB disk will contain the GRUB boot loader, the boot file system and the root file system.
David Jao posted a draft version of his DVD Playback HOWTO draft. Thomas Zimmerman also posted what he thinks about the document, your comments are welcome.

2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

There's a new version of the Linux Security HOWTO by Kevin Fenzi and Dave Wreski. V2.3 covers passwords in GRUB and explains umask operation in detail.
The K7s5a HOWTO, an effort by Sebfrance, Andreas Willenbrink, Álvaro Reguly and Paolo Berva, documents the K7s5a mainboard. It has instructions to make the integrated sound board work, how to get the sensors to do sensible reporting and how to activate the LAN adapter. New in v1.6 are the instructions for Debian.
Daniel Quintiliani's Windows Newsreaders under Linux HOWTO v2.2 covers the latest stable version of wine, which causes a series of new problems. Daniel documents each newsreader with its particular bugs.
The Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO v1.4 by Ian Ward has some minor corrections.
Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash Scripting Guide v2.4 has bug fixes; the PDF version which previously had problems is now also OK.
Ralf Holzer released the v1.1 of his Cryptoloop HOWTO. This revision comes with updated information on patching util-linux, Loop-AES, Best Crypt.

3. News in The LDP world

3.1. CD Distributions EN HOWTO removed

Martin Wheeler requested that his HOWTO on "English-language GNU/Linux distributions on CD-ROM" be removed. You are pointed to either the DistroWatch site or the Linux Online site as an alternative.

3.2. manpages from the IEEE and The Open Group

Alexander Voropay updated us that The IEEE and The Open Group have granted permission to the Linux Manual Pages Project to incorporate material from the joint IEEE 1003.1T POSIXR standard and The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6.

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 <[email protected]>.

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 <[email protected]>.

The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.