From: David Merrill <david@lupercalia.net> To: LDP Weekly News <news@linuxdoc.org>, Linux Weekly News <lwn@lwn.net>, Michael Hall <mhall@internet.com> Subject: LDPWN for 2002-03-05 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:24:11 -0500 LDP Weekly News 2002-03-05 by David Merrill New Version of the GFDL The Free Software Foundation is working on a new version of the GNU Free Documentation License. The new version of the license clarifies some wording with respect to invariant sections and front matter, and places limits on their size and the ways they can be used. We recommend for compatibility reasons the GNU FDL or the OPL v1.0 with options A and B not applied. OPL v2 does not meet our requirements. Some authors using the GFDL may find that the newest version adds too many restrictions, especially on non technical sections content or cover pages content. However, the LDP considers licensing to be the author's choice, not the LDP's. We have some general guidelines about licensing, because of our need to freely distribute documents, but we do not require any specific license. Our Manifesto specifies the characteristics a license must fulfill. LDP authors are free to choose the license they want, as long as the basic guidelines from our manifesto are respected. The LDP will remain neutral in license choice or license version questions, as long as the LDP manifesto is respected. Therefore, we suggest anyone using the GFDL reads http://www.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html and makes their own decision about whether or not to adopt the new version of the GFDL. That page includes a diff which shows the differences between each version of the GFDL. New Documents * Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-H OWTO/ Version 0.02, Charles Curley, ccurley@trib.com * The Linux Network Administrators Guide, 2nd Edition (Spanish Translation) http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/LDP/nag2/translations/es Version , Olaf Kirch, Terry Dawson Updated Documents * Apache Overview HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Apache-Overview-HOWTO.html Version 0.7, Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, ridruejo@apache.org * Authentication Gateway HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Authentication-Gateway-HOWTO/ Version 0.04, Nathan Zorn, zornnh@musc.edu * Euro Character Support mini HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Euro-Char-Support/ Version 1.0.1, Ari Makela, hauva@arska.org * Finnish-HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Finnish-HOWTO.html Version 2.0.11, Ari Makela, hauva@iki.fi * Linux IPv6 HOWTO http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/ Version 0.22, Peter Bieringer * Linux Medicine-HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Medicine-HOWTO.html Version 2.0.3, Gerardo Arnaez, garnaez@yahoo.com * Masquerading Made Simple HOWTO http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Masquerading-Simple-HOWTO/ Version 0.07, John Tapsell, tapselj0@cs.man.ac.uk, Matthias Grimm, DeadBull@gmx.net, Thomas Spellman, thomas@resonance.org * Palm OS Desktop HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO.html Version 2.0.1, Sean Buckley, sean@redbug.uklinux.net * Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/ Version 2.95, David A. Wheeler * Snort Setup for Statistics HOWTO http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Snort-Statistics-HOWTO/ Version 1.01, Sandro Poppi, spoppi@gmx.de * Text-Terminal-HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html Version 1.29, David S. Lawyer, dave@lafn.org Unmaintained Documents These documents have been abandoned by their maintainers and many of them have not been updated in some time. If you're willing to become the maintainer for one of them, please join the LDP discussion list at lists.linuxdoc.org and post a message indicating your interest. * Battery Powered Linux Mini-HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Battery-Powered.html Version * Brief Introduction to Alpha Systems and Processors http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Alpha-HOWTO.html Version 0.11 * Enterprise Java for Linux HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Enterprise-Java-for-Linux-HOWTO.html Version 0.2 * HOW-TO for inHouse IntraNet http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Netscape+Proxy.html Version * Installing Linux on ZIP disk using ppa ZIP Drive Mini-Howto http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Install-From-ZIP.html Version 0.7 * LINUX PLIP MINI-HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/PLIP.html Version 2.1 * Linux Benchmarking HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Benchmarking-HOWTO.html Version 0.12 * Linux SMP HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMP-HOWTO.html Version 1.12.1 * Linux Swap Space Mini-HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Swap-Space.html Version 1.42 * Linux Threads Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/Threads-FAQ/ Version * Linux simple fax printer server mini-HOWTO (faxsrv-mini-HOWTO) http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Fax-Server.html Version 1.0 * NFS-Root Mini-Howto http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/NFS-Root.html Version 8 * News Leafsite mini-HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/News-Leafsite.html Version 0.4 * SoundBlaster AWE 32/64 HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.html Version 1.2 * Spanish Linux HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Spanish-HOWTO.html Version 0.1 * The Ftape FAQ http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/Ftape-FAQ.html Version 0.2 * The Hebrew HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hebrew-HOWTO.html Version 0.4 * The LBX Mini-HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LBX.html Version 1.04 * The Linux ""Linux-DOS-Win95-OS2"" mini-HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2.html Version 1.3.1 * The Linux 3Dfx HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/3Dfx-HOWTO.html Version 1.16 * The Linux Busmouse HOWTO http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/Busmouse- HOWTO/ Version 2.0 * The Linux Intranet Server HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Intranet-Server-HOWTO.html Version 2.12 * The dosemu HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DOSEMU-HOWTO.html Version * UMSDOS HOW-TO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/UMSDOS-HOWTO.html Version 1.2 * Visible bell mini-Howto http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Visual-Bell.html Version 2.3 * X11-big-cursor MINIHOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/X-Big-Cursor.html Version 2 * mini-HOWTO install qmail with MH http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Qmail+MH.html Version 1.4 About the LDP The Linux Documentation Project is developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. This includes the creation of HOWTOs and Guides, and collaboration with other documentation groups. If you've always wanted to help Linux reach Total World Domination(tm), but you're not a programmer, there's still something you can do. Help the LDP! The LDP keeps a page of resources for authors at http://www.linuxdoc.org/authors/. Contributions are always welcome. For more LDP Weekly News, go to http://www.linuxdoc.org/ldpwn/ -- David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net Linux Documentation Project david@lupercalia.net Collection Editor & Coordinator http://www.linuxdoc.org And it came to pass in the third year of the Desert War that Paul Muad'Dib lay alone in the Cave of Birds beneath the kiswa hangings of an inner cell. And he lay as one dead, caught up in the revelation of the Water of Life, his being translated beyond the boundaries of time by the poison that gives life. Thus was the prophecy made true that the Lisan al-Gaib might be both dead and alive. -- "Collected Legends of Arrakis" by the Princess Irulan