2004 47, 48 & 49 The Linux Documentation Project 2004-12-08 James Tracy sent in a paper about writing and compiling programs with emacs and the g++ compiler. David Braun published v1.5 of his Disk Encryption HOWTO, which has minor updates. In v1.1.6 of Daniel Nofftz's Athlon Powersaving HOWTO you'll find more info about commandline-hacks and the athcool tool. Claudio Cattazzo and Manuele Rampazzo rewrote the Italian HOWTO. The previous version was rather outdated, so they did a nearly-from-scratch job. Also refer to the Italian Linux Documentation Project over at PLUTO. The SSI-UML HOWTO was removed at the request of the author. Machtelt Garrels submitted updates for the Intro to Linux and Bash for Beginners guides. New mirrors This is the list of mirror sites that joined us this November: in Bucharest, Romania, maintained by Alexandru Bradescu-Popa. in Seattle, Washington, by Joe Morthland. New Linux magazine: SSC Publishing, publishers of the Linux Journal, will launch a new monthly printed and online publication called TUX. It will address new Linux users. More info can be found over at SSC, the announcement is here on the feedback mailinglist. Translation Projects: Our French colleagues didn't sit still. Over at you can read about their latest accomplishments, among others a translation of the Samba Authenticated Gateway HOWTO and the Complete System Performance Monitoring Guide. The Korean LDP chapter put up a gallery with images and documentation of their CodeFests on the site. 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.