by > As some of you may remember, Ian Jackson and I started the Linux HOWTO
> project over a year and a half ago, in response to the increasingly
> disorganized documentation base. I started the project by writing the
> Installation HOWTO and NET-2-HOWTO, and Ian rewrote the Linux FAQ from
> scratch. Today there are 38 HOWTOs and 15 or so "mini-HOWTOs". The
> Linuxdoc-SGML system is used to produce LaTeX, Postscript, HTML, and
> plain ASCII from a single source document, and most of the HOWTOs are
> written using it. I think that the project has been a big success.
> So far I've been responsible for formatting, archiving, and posting all of
> the HOWTOs, trying to make them organized and so on. Lately I've been moving
> onto other projects (many of which are not Linux-related) and haven't had
> the time to keep the HOWTOs up-to-date. So I went on a search to find someone
> who could do this job better than I.
> as the new HOWTO maintainer/secretary/mascot. He's done a great job so far,
> updating all of the HOWTOs that I had laying around and had forgotten about.
> If you are a HOWTO writer, send your updates to Greg. Or, if you have ideas
> for a new HOWTO, get the file
> sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/WRITING
> and send the information asked about there to Greg.
> The HOWTOs are still available from the same FTP and WWW sites. Those
> are:
> sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO
> and
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/linux.html
> Greg will be updating the HOWTOs there and posting them to
> comp.os.linux.answers regularly. I'll still be working as the "LDP
> coordinator" (whatever that means) but Greg will be doing the most
> important work. I'm very glad that he's stepped forward to take over
> this job.
> Cheers,
> mdw
Thanks for the great work Matt, I couldn't have done it without you!
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Peter Walsh "Too much information, running through my brain"
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