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The Linux Documentation Project
2004-07-14
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
New documents @ The LDP
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Documents submitted for review
Mendel Cooper sent in a new version of his Advanced Bash Scripting Guide, featuring updates, corrections and new examples.
Manoj Warrier, main author of the Scientific Computing with GNU/Linux HOWTO provided us with an update containing additional links and more evaluations of distributions.
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New document proposals
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Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
The new release of the Linux/MIPS HOWTO by Ralf Bächle has updated info on related mailinglists and FTP sites, updated links and info about the Linux-VR project and other MIPS-based systems.
Minor changes in the TrueType Fonts with XFree86 4.x mini-HOWTO v1.5 by Bartek Kostrzewa.
Howard Shane added info for the 2.6 kernels in v1.1 of his Scanner HOWTO, as well as information about the libusb package.
Avi Alkalay encourages people to translate his Time Precision HOWTO; v1.0.7 has minor corrections and rephrasings.
Machtelt Garrels updated the Bash Guide for Beginners to have consistent markup; v1.3 is more userfriendly for the blind and a tracer image was added to track usage on the TLDP mirror sites. A tracer was also added to v1.15 of the Introduction to Linux - A hands on Guide, and textobjects were added to all images. Wrong links in the glossary section were corrected and a couple of other items were clarified.
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News in The LDP world
Mirrors: new mirror sites and changes in existing sites
Mary L. Kuss announced that the UK Mirror Service will be transformed into the JISC Mirror Service during summer holidays. Eduserv, the new responsables, have a brief synopsis of the changes here.
David Gonzalez changed the URL of his Columbian mirror http://www.skynetbbs.org/LDP/ to .
New mirror sites:
by Stefan Strandberg, in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
by Abdussalam Sukarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.
(IPv4 and v6) by Bernard Grymonpon, in Belgium.
by Richard Mitchell, in Wellington, New Zealand.
Mirror-maintainers: please note that you can replace the LDP Site Sponsor
logo on the first page with your own.
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