<listitem><para>Announcing the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Sybase-ASE-HOWTO/">Sybase ASE HOWTO</ulink> v1.0 by Kian Spongsveen. The full name for this document is the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise/SQL Server HOWTO; it describes the installation and basic usage of this database on the Linux platform.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>If privacy is an issue for you, check out our second new document this week: the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encrypted-Root-Filesystem-HOWTO/">Encrypted Root Filesystem HOWTO</ulink> by Christophe Devine.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Pramode C.E. sent in a document entitled <ulinkurl="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5924:200309:pgieheipbecfpcodijdd">Linux Kernel Commentary</ulink> and awaits your remarks.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>We received update v2.19 of David Lawyer's <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html">Serial HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>H†vard Stranden provided us with v1.3.1 of his <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-R200/">ATI R200 + XFree86 4.x mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group HOWTO</ulink> by Rick Moen is now at v1.6.8.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Svetoslav Slavtchev's <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/">XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO</ulink> was updated to v1.2.1.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Alavoor Vasudevan sent in v6.9 of the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/">Kernel HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<para>Sergiusz Pawlowicz (or Serek as a few people call him) has been
into Linux and Free Software ever since 1994, almost ten years. For nearly as long, he has been one of the thriving forces behind the Polish translation effort. When he's not administering our mailing-lists or the CVS, he manages his company, <ulinkurl="http://www.a-k-f.com/"/>.</para>
<figure><title>Sergiusz Pawlowicz, CVS and mailing-list administrator</title>
into the development of the <ulinkurl="http://docs.pld-linux.org/">PLD Linux Distro</ulink>, I was very experienced in using versioning systems in big scale.
<para><emphasis>Q: Apart from TLDP and PLD, you're involved in a number of other Open Source projects: the Free Software Foundation, you translate for the GNU project, ... And I know from my own experience that you take great care and that people can rely on you. Do you ever take a day off?</emphasis></para>
<para>A: Yeah, my girlfriend is rather unhappy. It is a real problem. But community service is stronger than me. It is fascinating
when you have a real influence on political and sociological
aspects of informatics.</para>
<para><emphasis>Q: Is there anything you want to share with the world that you cannot add to one of the Open Source projects you are involved with, such as the Polish Cooking HOWTO, maybe, or the Polish Traditional Woodwork FAQ? This is your chance to have your deepest wish heard ;-)</emphasis></para>
<para>A: Yeah - <quote>HOWTO to stand up and turn off TV</quote>. It really gives me the creeps to see that so many people are in an <quote>idle state</quote> and just watch television. Without adding anything to society, while listening to information prepared
by Public Relations in big concerns, they are empty-headed.</para>
<para><emphasis>Q: In your opinion, what makes TLDP so interesting?</emphasis></para>
<para>A: The most interesting thing in TLDP is that everyone can join us!</para>
<para><emphasis>Q: How do you say <quote>If all else fails, read the HOWTO</quote> in Polish?</emphasis></para>
<para>A: Hehe, you won't believe how strange it sounds, I better not answer this one ;-)</para>
<para>Since TLDP provides documentation on free software, a lot of our readers have been concerned about the pushing of software patents in Europe lately. Thanks to all of you who wrote to their representatives in the European Parliament, the worst case scenario was avoided. Because of this good news, a lot of Open Source sites have been re-opened last week. However, the decision has only been postponed, and danger of restriction is still pending. Read more at <ulinkurl="http://swpat.ffii.org/"/>.</para>