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


2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides


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 .

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