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  1. The Linux Documentation Project Turns 10

    Linux · Education · · posted by Cliff · from the happy-anniversary dept. · 232 comments
    hta writes: "The Linux Documentation Project is happy to announce its 10-year anniversary! Once upon a time, there was a general consensus that Unix in general, and Linux in particular, lacked good documentation. Matt Welsh decided to do something about this, and wrote the first Linux HOWTO - the 'Installation HOWTO' - the first of what is now a huge collection of focused, solution-oriented documents. It became a movement just like Linux itself. More and more people joined in on the effort, tools were created, and documents were written, translated and published. Ten years later, it is no exaggeration to say this issue has been dealt with thoroughly."

    "Today, TLDP is one of the largest Internet projects, where a few hundred people have written several hundred documents, ranging from small manual pages to in-depth guides that span over a hundred pages. The documentation covers nearly all aspects of Linux and is freely distributed, like Open Source software itself. In fact, many Linux distributions include the complete TLDP collection with the installation, helping both newcomers and more experienced users.

    TLDP is fully multi-lingual. People volunteer their time to help with tools, reviews, translation, publishing and updates. This all requires work, and a core group of a few dozen aid the authors through a series of mailing lists. In addition, TLDP is pleased to acknowledge support from numerous companies over the years, including Red Hat and IBM.

    TLDP continues to grow, in numbers of documents, supported languages and also new services, to better help an ever-increasing audience. To achieve this, TLDP is always looking for new volunteers to join, ranging from authors to programmers, to reviewers.

    For more information, please visit http://www.tldp.org and read the LDP FAQ."

  2. Linux Counter Drops 90.000 Users

    Linux · Linux · · posted by Hemos · from the add-it-up dept. · 190 comments
    hta writes "Over the 7 years that the Linux Counter has been operative, a lot of people have registered who can no longer be verified. We do not want to publish false data to the world. So we have to remove the data when it is too old, and have decided to give two grace periods." See below for more information - but go out and get counted!
    • Two years for entries with an email that might be valid
    • One year for entries without a valid email entry
    More technical details are available from the Counter.

    Since there has not been any routine for this before, there is a backlog of almost 100.000 entries.
    We have decided to pull the whole backlog at once on November 1.
    After this date, the aged-out entries will not be included in the Linux Counter user count, and will not receive email notifications from the counter.

    If you registered with the Linux Counter long ago, go over there and log in in order to make sure your entry stays counted."