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<listitem><para>Jakob Østergaard and Emilio Bueso are proud to present the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html">Software-RAID HOWTO</ulink> v1.00.0. The document discusses the 0.90 version of the RAID tools to use with 2.4 kernels, and starts off explaining everything you always wanted to know about RAID. The document is very well-balanced and accessible also to readers who are not familiar with the topic. Certainly worth a read!</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Jakob Østergaard and Emilio Bueso are proud to present
the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html">Software-RAID
HOWTO</ulink> v1.00.0. The document discusses the 0.90 version of the
RAID tools to use with 2.4 kernels, and starts off explaining everything
you always wanted to know about RAID. The document is very
well-balanced and accessible also to readers who are not familiar with
the topic. Certainly worth a read!</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Media-Guide/html/">Linux Media Guide</ulink> by Sheldon Rose adds to our Linux advocacy department, providing tips and tricks on how to generate positive PR and press coverage for our favorite systems. The non-technical nature of this document makes it an ideal read for your managers, marketing and sales people.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Media-Guide/html/">Linux Media
Guide</ulink> by Sheldon Rose adds to our Linux advocacy department,
providing tips and tricks on how to generate positive PR and press
coverage for our favorite systems. The non-technical nature of this
document makes it an ideal read for your managers, marketing and sales
people.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
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<title>Documents submitted for review</title>
<para>Everything but the latest version of Peter Bieringer's <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/index.html">Linux+IPv6 HOWTO</ulink> has been processed and published.</para>
</sect1>
<para>Everything but the latest version of Peter Bieringer's <ulink
url="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/index.html">Linux+IPv6
HOWTO</ulink> has been processed and published.</para> </sect1>
<sect1 id="new-proposed">
<title>New document proposals</title>
<para>David Jao is working on a DVD playing HOWTO, because, as he <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6400:200401:nnkgdppdkkplmdhkmeic">points out</ulink>, the current document is way too outdated, unmaintained, and no longer even remotely accurate. Since everybody who wants to play DVDs on Linux runs into DMCA and other barriers, the proposal was hauled in enthousiastically.</para>
</sect1>
<para>David Jao is working on a DVD playing HOWTO, because, as he <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6400:200401:nnkgdppdkkplmdhkmeic">points
out</ulink>, the current document is way too outdated, unmaintained, and
no longer even remotely accurate. Since everybody who wants to play
DVDs on Linux runs into DMCA and other barriers, the proposal was hauled
in enthousiastically.</para> </sect1>
<sect1 id="updated-docs">
<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>
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<listitem><para>Peter Jay Salzman's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/">Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO</ulink> v1.1 is getting more popular every day: translations in German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese are available from <ulink url="http://www.dirac.org/linux/debian/jigdo">Peter's web site</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Peter Jay Salzman's <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/">Debian Jigdo
mini-HOWTO</ulink> v1.1 is getting more popular every day: translations
in German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese are available from
<ulink url="http://www.dirac.org/linux/debian/jigdo">Peter's web
site</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Subhasish Ghosh updated the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Win+BSD+Linux-Install/html/index.htm">Windows+BSD+Linux Installation Guide</ulink> on Intel architecture, using the GRUB boot loader. This edition has an extended troubleshooting section and adds RedHat 8.0 and FreeBSD 5.1 to the reader's choice.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Subhasish Ghosh updated the <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Win+BSD+Linux-Install/html/index.htm">Windows+BSD+Linux
Installation Guide</ulink> on Intel architecture, using the GRUB boot
loader. This edition has an extended troubleshooting section and adds
RedHat 8.0 and FreeBSD 5.1 to the reader's choice.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html">MS Outlook to Unix Mailbox Conversion mini-HOWTO</ulink> v1.4 by Greg Lindahl has additional information on the conversion of attachments, which can sometimes be very troublesome because of the bundling techniques used in Outlook.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html">MS Outlook to
Unix Mailbox Conversion mini-HOWTO</ulink> v1.4 by Greg Lindahl has
additional information on the conversion of attachments, which can
sometimes be very troublesome because of the bundling techniques used in
Outlook.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>David S. Lawyer, one of our most prominent LinuxDoc evangelists, published v0.03 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html">Howtos with LinuxDoc mini-HOWTO</ulink>, which is a polish-up of the previous edition.</para>
<para>David didn't sit still the last couple of weeks: he did a rewrite
of the devices section in the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html">Modem HOWTO</ulink>, which is now v0.32; added more on flow control and updated the device info in the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html">Serial HOWTO</ulink> v2.22 and there are some minor changes in the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html">Text Terminal HOWTO</ulink>, v1.34.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>David S. Lawyer, one of our most prominent LinuxDoc
evangelists, published v0.03 of the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html">Howtos with
LinuxDoc mini-HOWTO</ulink>, which is a polish-up of the previous
edition.</para>
<listitem><para>Rick Moen found a couple more LUGS and did a license change in v1.7.5 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<para>David didn't sit still the last couple of weeks:
he did a rewrite of the devices section in the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html">Modem HOWTO</ulink>, which
is now v0.32; added more on flow control and updated the device info in
the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html">Serial
HOWTO</ulink> v2.22 and there are some minor changes in the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html">Text Terminal
HOWTO</ulink>, v1.34.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Miroslav Skoric's triplet: v1.29 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</ulink> tells about the upgrade-to-RH9 adventure and there is some minor rephrasing in v3.18 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink> and v2.18 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rick Moen found a couple more LUGS and did a license
change in v1.7.5 of the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group
HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Miroslav Skoric's triplet: v1.29 of the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS
mini-HOWTO</ulink> tells about the upgrade-to-RH9 adventure and there is
some minor rephrasing in v3.18 of the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink> and v2.18
of the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT
mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<para>The responsible for the Selangor i-ownur.info mirror informed us
about domain name problems they are having, due to which the mirror is
now located at <ulink
url="http://ldp.leakage.org">http://ldp.leakage.org</ulink>. Like the previous one, it is updated daily.</para>
url="http://ldp.leakage.org">http://ldp.leakage.org</ulink>. Like the
previous one, it is updated daily.</para>
</sect2>
@ -142,8 +193,8 @@ community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events
related to free software documentation. Write to us at
<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
<para>LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y
Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</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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