Re: Source files of guides

[Poet/Joshua Drake <poet@linuxports.com>]

We do not require SGML for guides. 


On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David C. Merrill, Ph.D. wrote:

>From: "Poet/Joshua Drake" <poet@linuxports.com>
>> >I was enable to find the source files of most printed guides available
>> >through linuxdoc, even though they present "open" licenses.
>> >In particular: "Securing and Optimizing Linux: Red Hat Edition"
>>
>> The source for Securing and Optimizing Linux is a Word Document. As in
>> Microsoft Word. We do not maintain the source.
>
>Gerhard still has the source for this guide, doesn't he?
>
>And what of the others? Here is my quick review of what's available. Where
>a document is available in an SGML format, I don't bother to note all the
>derivatives:
>
>Linux Security Quick Reference Guide
>PDF & PostScript only
>
>Linux Kernel Internals
>LinuxDoc SGML
>
>LDP Author Guide
>DocBook SGML
>
>Securing and Optimizing Linux: Red Hat Edition
>PDF only
>(plus server configuration files)
>
>The Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Second Edition
>HTML only
>
>Antares-RAID-sparcLinux HOWTO (NOTE: Probably doesn't belong under Guides.
>If we determine it does, it should be renamed)
>LinuxDoc SGML
>
>Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition
>PDF, LaTeX, PS, DVI
>
>Linux Administrator's Security Guide
>HTML only
>
>Linux System Administration Made Easy
>DocBook SGML
>
>Linux+Windows HOWTO (NOTE: Why is *this* one in Guides? Or should it just
>be renamed?)
>HTML and PDF only
>
>Linux System Administrators' Guide
>LaTeX source, PDF and PS output
>
>Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (NOTE: Needs to indicate the kernel
>version it supports, which is definitely *not* the 2.4 development
>kernel.)
>LaTeX source, DVI, PDF, and PS output
>
>Installation and Getting Started Guide (NOTE: Very outdated, probably more
>misleading than helpful. Should be archived for users of older
>distributions only.)
>LaTeX source, many outputs
>
>The Linux Kernel (NOTE: very outdated, like the Kernel Module Programming
>Guide)
>LaTeX source
>
>I won't bother going into the unmaintained Guides.
>
>As you can see, only four of our Guides are in SGML source; only *TWO* of
>them are in DocBook SGML.
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>David C. Merrill, Ph.D.
>Linux Documentation Project
>Collection Editor & Coordinator
>www.LinuxDoc.org
>
>

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