<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
<pubdate>20030812</pubdate>
<title>TLDP Weekly News</title>
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<title>New documents</title>
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<title>Fresh@LDP</title>
<para>There were no new releases this week.</para>
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<sect2>
<title>Proposed new documents</title>
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<listitem><para>Saqib Shaikh is the maintainer of a document called the <emphasis>BLinux Software Map, which is a guideline for blind people who want to use Linux. He <ulinkurl="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5436:200308:pedfgheipkemgjaehgio">proposed to submit it</ulink> and awaits your comments.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Tobias Reif has a draft for a <ulinkurl="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5467:200308:jkcmdfngjbkdlmikmhpk">Vim as XML Editor HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>We also received a draft from Scot W. Stevenson, for a document which he would like to call the <ulinkurl="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5471:200308:ohcibkfannekdlhembkb">Mock Mainframe mini-HOWTO</ulink>, describing how to centralize small computer systems in order to save time and money.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Mustafa El-Sheikh has a beta version of what he would like to call the <ulinkurl="http://elsheikhmh.20m.com/mount-mini-howto/">Windows Partitions Mount mini-HOWTO</ulink>, and awaits your input.</para></listitem>
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<sect2>
<title>Submitted for review</title>
<para>Everything submitted is already processed.</para>
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<sect1>
<title>Updates</title>
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<title>HOWTOs</title>
<para>We received updates for a whole bunch of documents:</para>
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<listitem><para>The <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO/">Apache based WebDAV Server with LDAP and SSL</ulink>, v4.0.1, by Saqib Ali.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Gamers-HOWTO/">Linux Gamers' HOWTO</ulink>, v0.9.34, by Peter Jay Salzman.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/">Linux Kernel HOWTO</ulink>, v6.5 was sent in by Alavoor Vasudevan.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>David Lawyer is still updating the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html">Modem HOWTO</ulink>, in order to help all those who can't have fast access yet; it's now at v0.29.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rick Moen sent in v1.6.3 of the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group HOWTO.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>And Håvard Stranden's <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-R200/">ATI R200 + XFree86 4.x mini-HOWTO</ulink> is now available in v1.3.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Miroslav Skoric updated his <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB mini-HOWTO.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Eric S. Raymond sent in an update for the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/">Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Gerardo Arnaez presented v2.2 of the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Medicine-HOWTO/">Linux Medicine HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/">Printing HOWTO</ulink> by Grant Taylor is now at v1.8.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>We guess you'll see a lot of updates for the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group HOWTO</ulink> by Rick Moen, it's now v1.6.6, but it appears people are sending in updates like crazy.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>What with wireless access becoming ever more popular, you might be interested in reading the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Wireless-Link-sys-WPC11/">Link-sys WPC11 mini-HOWTO</ulink>, v2.2.3, also by Gerardo Arnaez.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>We also got hold of v34, Jubilee Edition of the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BogoMips.html">BogoMips mii-HOWTO</ulink> by Wim van Dorst. From the FAQ: BogoMips is <quote>the number of million times per second a processor can do absolutely nothing.</quote></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The Quota mini-HOWTO v0.5, by Ralf van Dooren can be found at <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html"/>.</para></listitem>
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<sect2>
<title>People</title>
<para>This is Tabatha Marshall, TLDP Review Coordinator. She describes
herself as the proud mother of three sons, registered Linux user 170785,
partly Canadian and Italian, but mostly Geek.</para>
<para>A very long and at times tiresome discussion about who can or can not use TLDP documents dominated the past two weeks. You can read the entire thread <ulinkurl="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4905:200308:nndilkkmnocimdnhjmkm">here</ulink>. Summarized, it comes down to this: everybody can read our docs and store them on their servers, in accordance with the GPL. This includes also people we don't like.</para>
<listitem><para>Reviewing one of the draft versions of the <ulinkurl="http://www.tldp.org/authors/inprogress.html">documents in progress</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Picking up one of the <ulinkurl="http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html">unmaintained documents</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Providing assistance with <ulinkurl="http://www.tldp.org/authors/markup.html">markup</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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