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  <volumenum>2004</volumenum>
  <issuenum>11</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>2004-03-17</pubdate>
  <title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
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<sect1 id="new-released">

<title>New documents @ TLDP</title>


<para>Niko Sauer finished the procedures for submitting and revising his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/">USB Flash Memory HOWTO</ulink>.  It describes both VFAT and ext2 formatting of the devices and also has notes on how to support them with a 2.6 kernel.  Nico is the practical sort of person: he includes a section about making the memory sticks accessible to users and one about maintenance.  You can try it out immediately on your <ulink url="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/11/139207&mode=thread&tid=159&tid=186">Swiss army knife</ulink>!</para>


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

<title>Documents submitted for review</title>

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<listitem><para>Machtelt Garrels got some more input from readers and decided it's time to ask publication of v1.12 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html">Introduction to Linux</ulink> guide.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Mendel Cooper has an update ready for the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html">Advanced Bash Scripting Guide</ulink>, another work that keeps on growing.</para></listitem>

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</sect1>

<sect1 id="new-proposed">

<title>New document proposals</title>

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<sect1 id="updated-docs">
<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>

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<listitem><para>Claudio Cattazzo from the <ulink url="http://it.tldp.org">ILDP</ulink> was so kind as to announce the translations into Italian of the following documents:</para>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-Compile-HOWTO/index.html">The Apache-Compile-HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-Install/index.html">The DocBook-Install HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO/index.html">DocBook XML/SGML Processing Using OpenJade</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/index.html">The Linux+IPv6-HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html">The NIS HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/index.html">The Program-Library-HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html">The Quota HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO/index.html">The Security HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>A big Thank You goes to Michele Ferritto, Giuseppe Briotti, Beatrice Torracca, Daniele Masini, Fabio Zanotti, Riccardo Vianello, Alessio Rolleri and Elisabetta Galli for translating and reviewing these documents.</para>
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<listitem><para>Ari Makela updated the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Finnish-HOWTO/">Finnish HOWTO</ulink>.  Version 2.0.23 contains instructions for adapting Debian and some minor changes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html">Text Terminal HOWTO</ulink> has been around for quite some time, but it is still useful <emphasis>and</emphasis> maintained, eventhough it discusses rather archaic hardware.  New in v1.35: info on the Wyse 60 emulator.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Ralf H&#246;lzer's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/">Cryptoloop HOWTO</ulink> v1.2 has a better comparison between Cryptoloop encryption and Loop-AES encryption of a partition, and more explanations on reasons to use either one or the other.  Ralf also announces the deprecation of Cryptoloop in the 2.6 kernels, where it will be replaced by dm-crypt.  While the code for dm-crypt is cleaner, it is still under development and thus far, no userspace tools are available.</para></listitem>

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</sect1>

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

<sect2 id="news-item1">
<title>Mirroring TLDP</title>

<para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/mirrors.html">TLDP mirror page</ulink> is now up to date.  After a long period of blocking, Jens Hardings was the first to activate a <ulink url="http://mirrors.csol.org/LDP/">new mirror in Chile</ulink>.</para>
<para>We could do with some extra mirrors, for instance in Costa Rica, Croatia, French Guiana, Indonesia, Macau, Pakistan, Peru,  Puerto Rico, Russia and Ukraine, where we have none for the moment.  And we could certainly do with some extra mirrors in China.  Candidates, anyone?  Contact us through the feedback_at_en.tldp.org address!</para>
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<sect2 id="news-item2">
<title>Spotlight on TLDP</title>

<para>We've certainly know worse times as far as advertisement is concerned:</para>
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<listitem><para>LinuxJournal features a 2-page <ulink url="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7433">article about TLDP history</ulink> entitled <quote>Inside TLDP, a beind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Linux Documentation Project</quote>, which has been partly published before in TLDP WN issues <ulink url="http://tldp.org/ldpwn/20030617.html">9/2003</ulink> and <ulink url="http://tldp.org/ldpwn/20030701.html">10/2003</ulink>.  The article contains explanations on the name change from LinuxDoc to TLDP and completes the history from the point on where it stopped in our last publication of the matter.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.linux.com">Linux.com</ulink> subscribed to our newsfeed and honours us (more than we deserve?) by putting it on their first page.  You're making us blush, guys ;-)</para></listitem>
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<sect2 id="news-item3">
<title>News item 3</title>
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</sect1>

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

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

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

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

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

<para>The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing
free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If
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<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>

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<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>

<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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