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  <volumenum>2004</volumenum>
  <issuenum>2</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>2004-01-14</pubdate>
  <title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
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<sect1 id="new-released">

<title>New documents @ TLDP</title>

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<listitem><para>Jakob Østergaard and Emilio Bueso are proud to present the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html">Software-RAID HOWTO</ulink> v1.00.0.  The document discusses the 0.90 version of the RAID tools to use with 2.4 kernels, and starts off explaining everything you always wanted to know about RAID.  The document is very well-balanced and accessible also to readers who are not familiar with the topic.  Certainly worth a read!</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Media-Guide/html/">Linux Media Guide</ulink> by Sheldon Rose adds to our Linux advocacy department, providing tips and tricks on how to generate positive PR and press coverage for our favorite systems.  The non-technical nature of this document makes it an ideal read for your managers, marketing and sales people.</para></listitem>

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</sect1>

<sect1 id="new-for-review">

<title>Documents submitted for review</title>

<para>Everything but the latest version of Peter Bieringer's <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/index.html">Linux+IPv6 HOWTO</ulink> has been processed and published.</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="new-proposed">

<title>New document proposals</title>

<para>David Jao is working on a DVD playing HOWTO, because, as he <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6400:200401:nnkgdppdkkplmdhkmeic">points out</ulink>, the current document is way too outdated, unmaintained, and no longer even remotely accurate.  Since everybody who wants to play DVDs on Linux runs into DMCA and other barriers, the proposal was hauled in enthousiastically.</para>
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<sect1 id="updated-docs">
<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>

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<listitem><para>Peter Jay Salzman's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/">Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO</ulink> v1.1 is getting more popular every day: translations in German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese are available from <ulink url="http://www.dirac.org/linux/debian/jigdo">Peter's web site</ulink>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Subhasish Ghosh updated the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Win+BSD+Linux-Install/html/index.htm">Windows+BSD+Linux Installation Guide</ulink> on Intel architecture, using the GRUB boot loader.  This edition has an extended troubleshooting section and adds RedHat 8.0 and FreeBSD 5.1 to the reader's choice.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html">MS Outlook to Unix Mailbox Conversion mini-HOWTO</ulink> v1.4 by Greg Lindahl has additional information on the conversion of attachments, which can sometimes be very troublesome because of the bundling techniques used in Outlook.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>David S. Lawyer, one of our most prominent LinuxDoc evangelists, published v0.03 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html">Howtos with LinuxDoc mini-HOWTO</ulink>, which is a polish-up of the previous edition.</para>
<para>David didn't sit still the last couple of weeks: he did a rewrite
of the devices section in the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html">Modem HOWTO</ulink>, which is now v0.32; added more on flow control and updated the device info in the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html">Serial HOWTO</ulink> v2.22 and there are some minor changes in the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html">Text Terminal HOWTO</ulink>, v1.34.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Rick Moen found a couple more LUGS and did a license change in v1.7.5 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Miroslav Skoric's triplet: v1.29 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</ulink> tells about the upgrade-to-RH9 adventure and there is some minor rephrasing in v3.18 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink> and v2.18 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>

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</sect1>

<sect1 id="tldp-world">
<title>News in The LDP world</title>

<sect2 id="news-item1">
<title>Malaysia mirror changes URL</title>

<para>The responsible for the Selangor i-ownur.info mirror informed us
about domain name problems they are having, due to which the mirror is
now located at <ulink
url="http://ldp.leakage.org">http://ldp.leakage.org</ulink>. Like the previous one, it is updated daily.</para>

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<sect2 id="news-item2">
<title>News item 2</title>

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<sect2 id="news-item3">
<title>News item 3</title>

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</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="discussions">
<title>Discussions on TLDP lists</title>

<sect2 id="discussion1">
<title>Discussion topic 1</title>

<para>.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="discussion2">
<title>Discussion topic 2</title>

<para>.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="discussion3">
<title>Discussion topic 3</title>

<para>.</para>

</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="interview">
<title>Interview with Abc Xyz</title>

<para>.</para>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="feedback">
<title>HOWTO contribute to TLDP</title>

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<para>LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y
Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</para>

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