From b1924aeb53fec7b5caf62a27f283840baeab1616 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: appaji <>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:32:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add news items sent in by Tille

---
 LDP/ldpwn/20041222.xml | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/LDP/ldpwn/20041222.xml b/LDP/ldpwn/20041222.xml
index 6a41fc0b..272715d7 100644
--- a/LDP/ldpwn/20041222.xml
+++ b/LDP/ldpwn/20041222.xml
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 <article>
 <articleinfo>
   <volumenum>2004</volumenum>
-  <issuenum>ii</issuenum>
+  <issuenum>50 &amp; 51</issuenum>
   <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
-  <pubdate>2004-mm-dd</pubdate>
+  <pubdate>2004-12-22</pubdate>
   <title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
 </articleinfo>
 
@@ -35,6 +35,22 @@
 
 <itemizedlist>
 
+<listitem><para>Luis Lima posted a HOWTO on using <ulink
+url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:9308:200412:kjjpneogbmhmgninkika">Netinstaller
+to install Debian</ulink>.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Ian Hakes finally got approval from IBM to submit his
+<ulink
+url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:9310:200412:kjlbapjgmpcdjeedimfk">DB2
+HOWTO</ulink>.  It should pass pretty fast because it has already been
+reviewed internally by IBM.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Avy Alkalay put together the old Font HOWTO and the FDU
+HOWTO and did a great deal of rewriting in the new <ulink
+url="http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/font-howto.tar.gz">FONT
+HOWTO</ulink>.  At the request of the author, teh FDU HOWTO will be
+removed to the Obsolete section.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>.</para></listitem>
@@ -51,6 +67,16 @@
 
 <itemizedlist>
 
+<listitem><para>Paul Chavent made a start with a <ulink
+url="http://paul.chavent.free.fr/GBA-HOWTO.html">Gameboy Advance
+Programming HOWTO</ulink> (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.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Samdeep Nayak proposes to write about <ulink
+url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:msp:8186:200412:eckllmndnomfkjcfcipc">SCSI
+internals</ulink> for the 2.6 kernels.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>.</para></listitem>
@@ -81,6 +107,29 @@
 
 <itemizedlist>
 
+<listitem><para>Mirror troubles</para>
+
+<para>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:</para>
+<cmdsynopsis><command>rsync <option>-avz --delete</option>
+<parameter>ftp.ibiblio.org::ldp_mirror</parameter>
+<filename>/your_path_to/LDP</filename></command></cmdsynopsis>
+<para>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.</para>
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Printed Books</para>
+
+<para>The <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/links/p_books.html">Printed
+Books</ulink> section will be cleaned out.  If you know about any printed
+versions (original or translations) of TLDP documents, <ulink
+url="mailto:feedback@en.tldp.org">let us know</ulink>: title and/or ISBN
+of the publication, author, publisher, short book or document content if
+available.</para></listitem>
 <listitem>
 
 <para>News item title 1:</para>