1.1. Proposed New Documents

• Adrian Offerman proposed to submit the Tomcat and MMBase HOWTO that he is working on to The LDP. The document would describe installation on Red Hat, and the integration with Apache and MySQL.

2.1. HOWTOs

• If the DocBook/XML/SGML wealth of tags overwhelms you, try David Lawyer's HOWTOs with LinuxDoc mini-HOWTO, v0.02.
• Diego Bravo Estrada finished the Tutorial de Sendmail (in Spanish), explaining how to get started with sendmail on RedHat-based systems. Of course, with a bit of inspiration, you will also get other types of Linux to work with sendmail, using the information in this tutorial.
• Also new from es.tldp.org is the Gcc Inline Assembly HOWTO. While Martin Gundarra, the author, greatly appreciates the official GCC documentation, he would like to further facilitate access to the GNU Compiler suite with this Spanish document.
• Christophe Devine adds sections on support for Grub in his Encrypted Root Filesystem HOWTO now at v1.1.

2.2. Guides

• EVMS integrates all aspects of volume management, such as partitioning, logical volume management and multi-disk management in one interface. And who said Linux is not userfriendly? For the click-and-pointers there's the EVMS GUI interface and the package offers an ncurses-based GUI for the intermediate system administrator. Of course, professionals do it with the command line. Execution of volume management related tasks is explained using these three interfaces. Version 2.0 of the EVMS User Guide is still maintained by Christine Lorenz, Joy Godreau and Kylie Smith and certainly worth a check. Unfortunately there's no revision log, but we can see from CVS that a lot of chapters have been updated.
• Machtelt Garrels updated the Introduction to Linux, A Hands on Guide to v1.8 with minor modifications.

3.1. WHATIS documents

John R. Daily said that there might be value to having small documents available as part of the LDP library that describe key concepts like DNS, the TCP/IP protocol, init scripts, DTDs, shared libraries. The ones that have surely been described repeatedly so that new text need not be invented in the HOWTOs. Martin WHEELER delighted and asked if someone could setup a wiki somewhere, one page per WHATIS. David Lawyers opinion was that there should be a WHATIS co-ordinator and a way to handle many of these WHATIS documents.