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<articleinfo>
  <volumenum>2003</volumenum>
  <issuenum>5</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>2003-05-20</pubdate>
  <title>TLDP Weekly News</title>
</articleinfo>

<sect1>
<title>New documents</title>
<sect2>
  <title>Fresh@LDP</title>

<para>New documents this week:</para>
  
<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>After quite some struggle, here it is finally: the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/openMosix-HOWTO/">openMosix HOWTO</ulink>, formerly known as the Mosix HOWTO, by Kris Buytaert.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>An anonymous person wrote a document in Spanish explaining how to install the ICA Citrix client and use it with the popular Spanish PADRE program.  Our colleagues from TLDP-ES made it available as the <ulink url="http://es.tldp.org/Manuales-LuCAS/padre-howto/">Padre-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Proposed new documents</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Howard Shane sent in a proposal for a <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4386:200305:megoccnfpjhmfcoblbpf">Scanner
HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Weldon Goree
<ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4388:200305:moabfbbcgplpcncljjjn">proposed</ulink> a HOWTO on what dual-booting and multi-booting are and
how to do them.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Submitted for review</title>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Daniel Nofftz's announced that his 
<ulink
url="http://cip.uni-trier.de/nofftz/linux/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html">Athlon
Powersaving HOWTO</ulink> is ready for review.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1>  
<title>Updates</title>
<sect2>
<title>HOWTOs</title>

<para>After the problems were solved last week, a whole bunch of pending upgrades came through:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Anders Jensen-Urstad supplies us with v1.5 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Game-Server-HOWTO/">Game Server HOWTO</ulink> and Peter Jay Salzman mailed v0.9.22 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Gamers-HOWTO/">The Linux Gamers' HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Alavoor Vasudevan sent in yet another update for the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/">Kernel HOWTO</ulink>, which is now at v5.7.  He also moved the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO/">Vim Color Editor HOW-TO</ulink> to DocBook.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</ulink> v1.8, by Mendel Cooper.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Also by Peter Salzman: the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Debian-Jigdo/">Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Skip Rye worked on v1.8 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Optical-Disk-HOWTO.html">Linux Optical Disk HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Svetoslav Slavtchev, one of the new TLDP authors, send in the first update to the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/">XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Saqib Ali sent in <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO/">the DocBook XML/SGML Processing Using OpenJade HOWTO</ulink>, v2.2.5.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</sect2>
  
</sect1>

<sect1>
<title>Happenings in the LDP world</title>

<sect2>
<title>License on the LDP documents</title>
<para>
Colin Watson, who maintains the Debian packages for LDP documents <ulink
url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200305/msg00216.html">sent
in a mail</ulink> indicating that the old manifesto boilerplate license
used on a number of LDP documents was considered non-free by Debian
legal. He sent in the note that the Debian doc-linux-html and
doc-linux-text packages will use the GNU GPL, which is permitted by the
<ulink url="http://en.tldp.org/manifesto.html">clause 2</ulink>. David
Lawyer however <ulink
url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200305/msg00245.html">noted</ulink>
that It's only requested (not required) that the author be contacted in
case of modifications which may not render the license non-free.

</para>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title><literal>man</literal> pages</title>
<para>
Rahul Sundaram presented his <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4407:200305:ihpahginmljdgbhooeje">opinion
on</ulink> man pages. He said that they cater to the expert who already
knows what s/he is dealing with and provided a few examples. Antony E.
Greene <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4408:200305:foebgmckkcflneginjhc">said</ulink> that there are two different needs addressed
by tutorial or step-by-step instructions like the HOWTOs and a terse,
but comprehensive man on info page. Howard Shane and Machtelt Garrels
were of the opinion that the LDP should offer its services to improve
the quality of man pages but that would be a difficult task with the
resources at the disposal of LDP.

</para>

<para>
While on the thread, Greg Ferguson <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4409:200305:loceblldbelajghaloeg">asked</ulink> if people would be interested in a collection of man pages (filtered to HTML via man2html; browseable, etc.) on the LDP site.

</para>

<para>
During the course of the discussion, <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4426:200305:hgeoklcbfgegcnnilkkp">jdd
wondered</ulink> if there was some sort of a locate_doc that could
detect automatically all the documentation available for an
application. People suggested <ulink
url="http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/">scrollkeeper</ulink> and
<ulink
url="http://packages.debian.org/stable/doc/dwww.html">dwww</ulink> from
the Debian project.

</para>
</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="feedback">
<title>Feedback and Contributions</title>

<para>Please help us create this weekly newsletter. Seen a site putting
in a story with a link to the LDP? Completed the translation of any
HOWTO?  Know of any articles about the LDP published in newspapers or
magazines?  We are curious ;-). You can help us by sending in links and
information at <email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>

<para>LDP Weekly News is edited by
Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
with help from several other people.</para>
</sect1>

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