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<volumenum > 2004</volumenum>
<issuenum > 7</issuenum>
<publisher > <publishername > The Linux Documentation Project</publishername> </publisher>
<pubdate > 2004-02-18</pubdate>
<title > The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
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<sect1 id= "new-for-review" >
<title > Documents submitted for review</title>
<itemizedlist >
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<listitem > <para > Kai Schlachter polished up the documentation he wrote
about the installation process of <application > glibc</application> , took
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a crash course in docbook and sent in his contribution, which he would
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like to call the <ulink
url="http://www.murphyslantech.de/linux/glibc-howto/glibcinstall.docbook">Glibc
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mini-HOWTO</ulink> . It's not complete yet: Kai still needs to fine tune
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this document to be compliant with the newer versions of
<application > glibc</application> , but comments on the document are
welcome.</para> </listitem>
<listitem > <para > Lars Strand wrote an <ulink
url="http://www.gnist.org/~lars/work/insc/code/OLSR-IPv6-HOWTO-v0.5.tar.bz2">OLSR
(Optimized Link State Routing Protocol) IPv6 HOWTO</ulink> (source XML +
images), describing this routing protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks.
The document has had a technical review, the result of which is now
<ulink url= "http://www.gnist.org/~lars/work/insc/olsr/" > here</ulink> .
Lars is of the opinion that a language review would be valuable.</para> </listitem>
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<sect1 id= "new-proposed" >
<title > New document proposals</title>
<itemizedlist >
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<listitem > <para > Michael Schlenstedt is working on an ISDN HOWTO <ulink
url="http://www.schlenn.net/~michael/isdn4linux/EN-TOC.txt">(Table of
contents)</ulink> (<ulink
url="http://www.schlenn.net/~michael/isdn4linux/DE-TOC.txt">German
version</ulink> ), explaining ISDN-support in 2.6 kernels. In the new
kernels, a lot has changed and Michael wants to describe installation and
give some background information about CAPI and ISDN4Linux so as to be
able to troubleshoot.</para> </listitem>
<listitem > <para > Luigi Bitoni proposed a text documenting the combination
of Apache, Tomcat, Sun's JDK and mod_jk. Luc De Louw (author of a
slightly related <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/MMBase-Inst-HOWTO/">MMBase Installation
HOWTO)</ulink> , <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6674:200402">suggested</ulink>
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combining the efforts, because he is not a Tomcat and mod_jk
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specialist.</para> </listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id= "updated-docs" >
<title > Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>
<itemizedlist >
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<listitem > <para > Mendel Cooper has bug fixes and more examples in the <ulink url= "http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/" > Advanced Bash Scripting Guide</ulink> v2.5.</para> </listitem>
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<listitem > <para > Major points of attention in v0.7 of the <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">LVM HOWTO</ulink> are the
inclusion of a discussion about LVM 2 and the addition of a FAQ section.
Author AJ Lewis handed over the copyright to RedHat.</para> </listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id= "tldp-world" >
<title > News in The LDP world</title>
<sect2 id= "news-item1" >
<title > Iceland Icenet mirror moved</title>
<para > Albert Ragnarsson let us know that the TLDP mirror over at http://www.eldveggir.com/eldveggur/LDP/ no longer exists because he dropped the domain. A replacement is available from <ulink url= "http://ldp.icenet.is/" /> . This mirror is updated daily.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id= "feedback" >
<title > HOWTO contribute to TLDP</title>
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<para > The 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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