<title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
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<title>New documents</title>
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<title>Fresh@LDP</title>
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<listitem><para>The <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Traffic-Control-HOWTO/">Traffic Control HOWTO</ulink> by Martin A. Brown explains the implementation of queuing, scheduling, shaping and dropping of packets on Linux.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Our German friends translated the <ulinkurl="http://www.linuxhaven.de/dlhp/HOWTO/DE-LVM-HOWTO.html">LVM HOWTO</ulink> a while ago, apparently, but it only got announced on the Deutsches Linux HOWTO Projekt homepage <ulinkurl="http://www.linuxhaven.de/dlhp/news.html">last week</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Armin would like to find out if anyone can use his <ulinkurl="http://qwuh.no-ip.com/oracle/">Oracle 6i Forms and Reports Server and Client HOWTO</ulink>. Have a look and let him know!</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Clemens Lee submitted the first version of the <ulinkurl="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5986:200310:ekpomcffjchcfdnmmlci">Debian Binary Package Building HOWTO</ulink>, which explains how to create <filename>.deb</filename> packages. However, he's not happy with the title and awaits suggestions to change it. This is the chance for those readers who are always sighing how they can't contribute anything to Open Source because they're just not the technical kind of person. You don't have to know anything about Linux in order to help TLDP authors to create good documents. Sometimes it's enough to just come up with a bit of inspiration for a good title!</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Miroslav Skoric sent in <ulinkurl="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5997:200310:akfanghehooklaknddfk">several updates</ulink>: he is the author of the <ulinkurl="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet Radio mini-HOWTO</ulink>, the <ulinkurl="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink> and the <ulinkurl="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WinNT mini-HOWTO</ulink>. Don't mix up that last one with Bernd Reichert's <ulinkurl="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html">NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO</ulink>!</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>From Ian Ward we received for review the <ulinkurl="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6001:200310:lgilnlolmnaihmeogdcl">Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO</ulink>, v1.2.</para></listitem>
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<title>Updates</title>
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<title>HOWTOs</title>
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<listitem><para>It is hard to keep track with David Lawyer. Here is v2.20 of his <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html">Serial HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Read Eric Raymond's <ulinkurl="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO/index.html">Unix and Internet Fundamentals HOWTO</ulink> for a kickstart no-nonsense introduction to computers, Linux and Internet.</para></listitem>
started as early as 1992</ulink> and possibly before that. Is it the said truth of the information age that we forget our history? Next thing we know, there have always been flying cars and brain plugins around...</para>