1. News in The LDP world

• TLDP Process Flowcharts
  

  Machtelt Garrels updated The LDP process flowcharts based on the comments that she received from various peopled who looked at the earlier versions.

• IPMI on Linux HOWTO
  

  In case you are looking for Tim Small's IPMI on Linux HOWTO at http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html but cannot get the document, Greg Ferguson has uploaded a copy to http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/IPMI_on_Debian.html. Review comments on the document may be sent to Tim Small.

2. Discussions on The LDP lists

• Understanding The Linux Kernel Initcall Mechanism
  

  Machtelt Garrels, in response to an email on the <[email protected]> mailing list, wrote to Trevor Woerner asking him if he was interested in contributing a document that he wrote to The LDP and explained the process of submission. Trevor responded with pointers to his work http://geek.vtnet.ca/docs.html, http://geek.vtnet.ca/doc/initcall/index.html and http://geek.vtnet.ca/doc/initcall/initcall.tar.bz2. Rahul Sundaram posted his comments on the draft version, and Trevor indicated that he would post a revised version shortly. Machtelt indicated that being proactive and inviting authors to LDP is probably a good thing to do.

• Bug Reporting System For The LDP?
  

  Stein Gjoen pointed out that Tim Small did not get any feedback on his IPMI on Linux (specifically Debian) HOWTO at http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html. Stein suggested a few improvements to the LDP process to not let proposals slip by. Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said that the process would be easy if The LDP had a bug tracking system.

3. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

• Ian Hakes and Rory Hinton's DB2 Universe Database Version 8.2 for Linux HOWTO has been updated to v1.1.3. In this version, they added Red Hat Enterprise 4 instructions and corrected minor cross-reference link issues.
• David Horton's Pocket Linux Guide has been updated to v3.1 with minor clarifications and spelling corrections.
• The Linux Professional Institute / Sheldon Rose's Guide to Managing Media and Public Relations in the Linux Community has been updated to v1.1 to correct links and update the copyright notice.

4. Mirror information update

The following are the latest additions to our list of mirrors:

• http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ldp/ and ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ldp/ maintained by [email protected] in Aalborg, Denmark and updated daily. This is the result of a re-organization at sunsite.dk, with them being called as dotsrc.org now and moving to newer (and more) servers.

5. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO

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]> (a low volume discussion mailing list). You can also send your suggestions to <[email protected]>.

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