<para>Stephan Reuter has started the <ulinkurl="http://linux.shiningdeath.de/">Linux Archive</ulink> site, where you can find HOWTOs and other documents in German. Among the ever-growing list of translated documents:</para>
<listitem><para>Vikas Singhal proposed to write a Open Source Databases for
Linux HOWTO. The document will explain installation and configuration of
various open source databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MaxDB, and Firebird,
on Linux platform. This document will also provide comparison among these
databases. This will not be a very detailed manual but an overview and will
provide pointers for further information. Rahul Sundaram expressed his
interest in the document and indicated the Vikas should post his proposal and
drafts to the discuss list. Vivek Varghese Cherian offered help with the
document.</para></listitem>
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</sect1>
<sect1id="updated-docs">
<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>
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<listitem><para>Christophe Devine took the time to update all the package version numbers in the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encrypted-Root-Filesystem-HOWTO/">Encrypted Root Filesystem HOWTO</ulink> v1.3. The document is now also available in <ulinkurl="http://cvsview.tldp.org">CVS</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Another addition to CVS is v0.9 of the <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BTTV/">BTTV HOWTO</ulink>. This is the first attempt at rewrite of the document, so comments are welcome!</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Mendel Cooper released v3.3 of the <ulinkurl="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</ulink>, which contains again lots of bug fixes and several new example scripts.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Artemiy I. Pavlov released v1.7 of his <ulinkurl="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SquashFS-HOWTO/">SquashFS HOWTO</ulink>, this new version has modifications in the document to cover the SquashFS release 2.1.</para></listitem>
<para>The following are the latest additions to our <ulinkurl="http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html">list of mirrors</ulink>:</para>
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<listitem><para>Nels Martens: <ulinkurl="http://www.codesrc.net/LDP">http://www.codesrc.net/LDP</ulink> in El Segundo, CA, USA and updated daily.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Yevgeniy Skrypets: <ulinkurl="http://ldp.tolix.org/">http://ldp.tolix.org/</ulink> in Burlingame, CA, USA and updated daily at 1am PST.</para></listitem>
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</sect1>
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<title>The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</title>
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