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+ + 2004 + 50 & 51 & 52 + The Linux Documentation Project + 2004-12-29 + The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News + + + + +Documents submitted for review + + + +Luis Lima posted a HOWTO on using Netinstaller +to install Debian. + +Ian Hakes finally got approval from IBM to submit his +DB2 +HOWTO. It should pass pretty fast because it has already been +reviewed internally by IBM. + +Avy Alkalay put together the old Font HOWTO and the FDU +HOWTO and did a great deal of rewriting in the new FONT +HOWTO. At the request of the author, the FDU HOWTO will be +removed to the Obsolete section. + + + + + + + +New document proposals + + + +Paul Chavent made a start with a Gameboy Advance +Programming HOWTO (French only for the moment, Machtelt Garrels +proposed to translate in English). He argues that while the GBA becomes +obsolete, it is a cheap way to study embedded Linux. + +Sandeep Nayak proposes to write about SCSI +internals for the 2.6 kernels. + +Michal Kosmulski has a set of computing related documents hosted at and would like to contribute them to The LDP. Please send in any feedback you have to the author. + + + + + + +News in The LDP world + + + +Mirror troubles + +There were some troubles on our servers which made it impossible for +our mirror maintainers to synchronize. The Ibiblio support team assures +us that everything is running OK now. Remember that you have to use a +command similar to the following in order to start the synchronization +process: +rsync +ftp.ibiblio.org::ldp_mirror +/your_path_to/LDP +In January, all maintainers will be contacted again to check that +their mirror and contact information is still up to date and that their +mirrors are running in sync. + + +Printed Books + +The Printed +Books section will be cleaned out. If you know about any printed +versions (original or translations) of TLDP documents, let us know: title and/or ISBN +of the publication, author, publisher, short book or document content if +available. + + +XML diff tool + +If you need a good XML diff tool, Ari Makela recommends trying xmldiff: . + + + + + +New mirrors + +This is the list of sites that have started mirroring The LDP: + + + in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, maintained by Eelco Wesemann. + + + + + + + + + +HOWTO contribute to The LDP + +The Linux Documentation +Project (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality +documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help +TLDP, consider joining +discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org. + +Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the +community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events +related to free software documentation. Write to us at +feedback@en.tldp.org. + +The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and +Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people. + + + +