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Revision History

4. Revision History

Revision History
Revision 1.232006-07-25Revised by: MG and FK
Updates and corrections, removed app5 again, adapted license to enable inclusion in Debian docs.
Revision 1.222006-04-06Revised by: MG
chap8 revised completely, chap10: clarified examples, added ifconfig and cygwin info, revised network apps.
Revision 1.212006-03-14Revised by: MG
Added exercises in chap11, corrected newline errors, command overview completed for chapter 9, minor corrections in chap10.
Revision 1.202006-01-06Revised by: MG
Split chap7: audio stuff is now in separate chapter, chap11.xml. Small revisions, updates for commands like aptitude, more on USB storage, Internet telephony, corrections from readers.
Revision 1.192005-09-07Revised by: MG
clarified file descriptors, exercises in chap3, corrected links, added more Debian refs, corrected language errors.
Revision 1.182005-05-23Revised by: MG
note about pagers, lots of clarifications, removed quite some RedHat-centric paragraphs, reviewed and updated lots in sound and video, removed xmms-mp3 stuff, added time zone info because I was just dealing with date and time, contrary to the title of the section, removed Mandrake refs.
Revision 1.172005-03-01Revised by: MG
Lots of little details that were outdated, added several notes, removed tracer image, added info about new apps.
Revision 1.162004-12-06Revised by: MG
Changes because of domain move, minor corrections.
Revision 1.152004-07-09Revised by: MG
Added tracer image 1x1 pixel http://tille.xalasys.com/images/blank.png in each section and sect1, corrected wrong links in glossary, added textobjects for all images, made signal list and disk I/O problems list more clear.
Revision 1.142004-06-19Revised by: MG
Added tee command in chap5, corrected typos, acted upon remarks sent in by readers, added newgrp explanations, explained user private group scheme, added a remark on umask.
Revision 1.132004-04-27Revised by: MG
Last read-through before sending everything to Fultus for printout. Added Fultus referrence in New Versions section, updated Conventions and Organization sections. Minor changes in chapters 4, 5, 6 and 8, added rdesktop info in chapter 10, updated glossary, replaced references to fileutils with coreutils, thankyou to Hindi translators.
Revision 1.122004-03-13Revised by: MG
Added KAudioCreator, deleted outdated Xcdroast pic, note on running gnome apps in KDE and vv., added tvtime and mplayer links, added sections about signals and stopping/renicing processes.
Revision 1.112004-02-02Revised by: MG
Completed bookinfo with ISBN. Tried indentation and formatting, but oxygen tool didn't recognize screen sections -> had to roll back.
Revision 1.102004-01-06Revised by: MG
Changed encoding to UTF-8, rearranged revision history. Added a lot of markup in the screen sections to better distinguish prompts from commands; introduced warnings, cautions and tips.
Revision 1.92003-11-29Revised by: MG
Acted upon remarks from readers to clarify issues with compressed files, removable media; found a couple more spelling errors, added an extra example for cron and one for prompt settings; took out reference to Acrobat Reader and stuffit, which are not Open Source (pointing to a fancy flight simulator instead ;-) More on keyboard layout. Added RPM example, added yum package manager.
Revision 1.82003-09-16Revised by: MG
Added app5, corrected some minor details.
Revision 1.72003-07-26Revised by: MG
Added RPM and apt-get examples, corrected issues with tar incremental backup. Updated glossary and added links to sections within document.
Revision 1.62003-07-21Revised by: MG
Corrected details in chap 1 to 5, tried shorter lines in intro and chap1 to make it easier on translators using CVS. See what this gives: next update diffs should be more readable for these parts.
Revision 1.52003-06-17Revised by: MG
Redo of chapter 10 on Networking, left out some sections that were too complicated.
Revision 1.42003-04-27Revised by: MG
Added sound and video playing, chat/conference; got rid of redhat-config image and redhat printtool gui stuff; bash key combinations in chap2; XML keycap tag on all key combinations, parameter tag on arguments, guibutton tag for graphical buttons, menuchoice, guimenu and guimenuitem tags for GUI menu selections; replaced pico with ed, added piece about Linux in the office, replaced abiword image with openoffice screenshot; added conventions and organization sections in introduction; added konqueror screenshot in chap2; replaced system-monitor screenshot in chap4 with something more up to date; summary for chap2, checked exercises; added bash in app3 differing features; License section is now only invariant section.
Revision 1.32003-03-26Revised by: MG
grep and escape characters; exporting variables; more consequent about security issues; init and cron revised; window and desktop managers explanation; removed some more too RedHat specific stuff; added piece about (x)inetd; local authentication; text conversions and encoding; graphical help, graphical file managers, note on internet connections; spell check.
Revision 1.22003-02-28Revised by: MG
ps a bit better explained; more in getting started: --help, whatis, apropos explained; more on find; chmod and umask still contained a couple of errors and incompletenesses; resized images that were too large to be printed; resized oversized text boxes for better print quality; updated glossary.
Revision 1.12003-01-22Revised by: MG
Bug fixes; removed some more too RedHat specific stuff; corrected minor errors; moved most recent version to decent URL; improved tar section, added something about jar.
Revision 1.02002-12-29Revised by: MG
Initial release for TLDP