Lots of updates, ispell, woody render, ready to publish

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<sect1>
<title>New documents</title>
<sect2>
<title>Fresh@LDP</title>
<para>Maybe not that fresh, but here it is finally in one-dot-oh!: the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/">Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO</ulink>, by Peter Jay Salzman.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Proposed new documents</title>
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<listitem><para>Niko Sauer has written some interesting things about <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6206:200311:paomefdmeppfbonhpnbd">USB memory sticks</ulink> and would like to know what you think about it.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Lars Strand <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5174:200311:abimfngadhibogkclfmk">proposed</ulink>
a Mobile IPv6 HOWTO. A draft version is available at <ulink
url="http://www.gnist.org/~lars/work/insc/mipv6/">http://www.gnist.org/~lars/work/insc/mipv6/</ulink>.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Submitted for review</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Jean-Daniel Dodin's <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Partition-Rescue/index.html">Partition-Rescue HOWTO</ulink> is being converted to docbook and the new version will be published under the LGPL.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Everything else submitted for review has already been or is being processed.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>After the fashion of the <ulink url="http://koeln.ccc.de/prozesse/writing/artikel/hacker-werden.html">Wie werde ich Hacker HOWTO</ulink> (<ulink url="http://babelfish.altavista.com/">Babelfish</ulink> might be required), TLDP has its own HOWTO-become-a-guru doc, the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO/">Linux Reading List HOWTO</ulink>. This list is what Eric Steven Raymond considers to be essential reading if you want to become a UNIX/Linux programmer. I admire his choice of starting off with the New Hacker's Dictionary ;-) The list is revision v2.1 now.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Here it is in one-dot-oh!: the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/">Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO</ulink>, by Peter Jay Salzman.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Alavoor Vasudevan's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/C-C++Beautifier-HOWTO/">C-C++ Beautifier HOWTO</ulink> v16.7 got accepted. He also tries to keep the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/">Linux Kernel HOWTO</ulink> up to date, which, we imagine, isn't an easy job. In other words, here too, your constant feedback is needed. Have a go at it, you needn't be a specialist. Really :)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>After the fashion of the <ulink url="http://koeln.ccc.de/prozesse/writing/artikel/hacker-werden.html">Wie werde ich Hacker HOWTO</ulink> (<ulink url="http://babelfish.altavista.com/">Babelfish</ulink> might be required), TLDP has its own HOWTO-become-a-guru doc, the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO/">Linux Reading List HOWTO</ulink>. This list is what Eric Steven Raymond considers to be essential reading if you want to become a UNIX/Linux programmer. The list is revision v2.1 now.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Alavoor Vasudevan's <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/C-C++Beautifier-HOWTO/">C-C++ Beautifier
HOWTO</ulink> v16.7. He also tries to keep the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/">Linux Kernel HOWTO</ulink> up
to date. He sent in an update to his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO/">Vim Color Editor HOW-TO</ulink>. </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Did you know that Miroslav <quote>Misko</quote> Skoric's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</ulink> contains a section on how to <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB-11.html">communicate with LinFBB in Serbian</ulink>? Check it out, preferably in the latest version, 1.26.</para>
<para>As usual, Miroslav's updates come in threes: you also get the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink>, v3.15, and the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</ulink>, v2.15.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Rick Moen found some more interesting sources of Linux information and listed them in v1.7.3 of his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Alavoor Vasudevan documented another of our great Open Source products, ported to just about any system, by the way, so if you thought Linux wasn't the thing for you, at least try our fantastic visual editor, Improved, aka <ulink url="http://www.vim.org/">vIm</ulink> on your inferior\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h alternative operating system. You can't go wrong with Alavoor's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO/">Vim Color Editor HOW-TO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rick Moen found some more interesting sources of Linux information and listed them in v1.7.3 of his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Jean-Daniel Dodin's <ulink
url="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Partition-Rescue/index.html">Partition-Rescue
HOWTO</ulink> has been converted to docbook and the new version is under the LGPL.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
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<sect1>
<title>Happenings in the LDP world</title>
<para>.</para>
<sect2>
<title>TLDP-ES/LuCAS unreachable</title>
<para>patatipatata now back online.</para>
<para>Ismael Olea sent in an update telling us that the Spanish LDP folks are down because of a disk failure and
they are working on fixing it. </para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Discussion Summary 2</title>
<title>LDP author tools RPM packages</title>
<para>.</para>
<para>Rodolfo J. Paiz <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5163:200311:ehngfbpnepphojhokgdn">summarized</ulink>
his findings on, what packages form parts of the authoring tools RPM
packages on his RedHat 9 based system. This is his <ulink
url="http://apollo.simpaticus.com/other/docbook.packagelist.shrike.txt">package
list descriptions</ulink> page. On a Debian GNU/Linux based system, the
packages that provide for these capabilities can be installed from the
linuxdoc-tools and the docbook-utils Debian packages. </para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>News Item 1</title>
<title>Linux+XFS HOWTO maintenance</title>
<para>.</para>
<para>Russel Ingram, the maintainer for the <ulink
url="www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+XFS-HOWTO/">Linux+XFS HOWTO</ulink> feels that
the document is out of its useful life as several linux distributions
offer XFS at installation time. He plans to move the document to the
unmaintained section of the HOWTOs and welcomes anyone who feels they
can turn this back into an up to date and useful document. Contact
Russel at ringram at gargoylecc.com if you are interested. </para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Linux SAG guide maintenance</title>
<para>Alex Weeks would be maintaining the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/">Linux System Administrator
Guide</ulink> for novices., taking it over from Stephen Stafford. If you would like to help
Alex as a co-maintainer, get in touch with him. </para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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