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<volumenum>2004</volumenum>
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<issuenum>2</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2004-01-14</pubdate>
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<title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1 id="new-released">
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<title>New documents @ TLDP</title>
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<para></para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Jakob Østergaard and Emilio Bueso have released
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their <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html">Software-RAID
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HOWTO</ulink> v1.00.0. The document discusses the 0.90 version of the
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RAID tools to use with 2.4 kernels. It starts off explaining everything
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you always wanted to know about RAID. The document is very
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well-balanced and accessible also to readers who are not familiar with
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the topic and is certainly worth a read!</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink
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url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Media-Guide/html/">Linux Media
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Guide</ulink> by Sheldon Rose adds more to our Linux advocacy department,
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providing tips and tricks on how to generate positive PR and press
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coverage for our favorite systems. The non-technical nature of this
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document makes it an ideal read for your managers, marketing and sales
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people.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="new-for-review">
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<title>Documents submitted for review</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Ralf Holzer updated the <ulink
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url="http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~rholzer/cryptoloop_mini_howto.html">Cryptoloop
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Mini-HOWTO</ulink>. Comments on the new version are
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welcome.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="new-proposed">
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<title>New document proposals</title>
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<para>David Jao is working on a DVD playing HOWTO, because, as he <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6400:200401:nnkgdppdkkplmdhkmeic">points
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out</ulink>, the current document is way too outdated, unmaintained, and
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no longer even remotely accurate. Since everybody who wants to play
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DVDs on Linux runs into DMCA and other barriers, the proposal was hauled
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in enthusiastically.</para> </sect1>
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<sect1 id="updated-docs">
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<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Peter Jay Salzman's <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/">Debian Jigdo
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mini-HOWTO</ulink> v1.1. A popular document: translations
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in German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese are available from
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<ulink url="http://www.dirac.org/linux/debian/jigdo">Peter's web
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site</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Subhasish Ghosh updated the <ulink
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url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Win+BSD+Linux-Install/html/index.htm">Windows+BSD+Linux
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Installation Guide</ulink> on Intel architecture, using the GRUB boot
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loader. This edition has an extended troubleshooting section and adds
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RedHat 8.0 and FreeBSD 5.1 to the reader's choice.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html">MS Outlook to
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Unix Mailbox Conversion mini-HOWTO</ulink> v1.4 by Greg Lindahl has
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additional information on the conversion of attachments, which can
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sometimes be very troublesome because of the bundling techniques used in
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Outlook.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>David S. Lawyer, one of our most prominent LinuxDoc
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evangelists, published v0.03 of the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html">Howtos with
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LinuxDoc mini-HOWTO</ulink>, which is a polish-up of the previous
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edition.</para>
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<para>David didn't sit still the last couple of weeks: he did a rewrite
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of the devices section in the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html">Modem HOWTO</ulink>, which
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is now v0.32; added more on flow control and updated the device info in
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the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html">Serial
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HOWTO</ulink> v2.22 and there are some minor formatting changes in the
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<ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html">Text
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Terminal HOWTO</ulink>, v1.34.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Rick Moen found a couple more LUGS and did a license
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change in v1.7.5 of the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group
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HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Miroslav Skoric's triplet: v1.29 of the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS
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mini-HOWTO</ulink> tells about the upgrade-to-RH9 adventure and there is
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some minor rephrasing in v3.18 of the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink> and v2.18
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of the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT
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mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem> <para>The latest version of Peter Bieringer's <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/index.html">Linux+IPv6
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HOWTO</ulink> (v0.45). This revision has some minor fixes in the
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document and the URLs and a few extensions.</para> </listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="tldp-world">
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<title>News in The LDP world</title>
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<sect2 id="news-item1">
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<title>Malaysia mirror changes URL</title>
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<para>The responsible for the Selangor i-ownur.info mirror informed us
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about domain name problems they are having, due to which the mirror is
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now located at <ulink
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url="http://ldp.leakage.org">http://ldp.leakage.org</ulink>. Like the
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previous one, it is updated daily.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="news-item2">
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<title>Out of date Acer HOWTO</title>
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<para>Though The LDP is facing a lot of problems with old and
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out-of-date documents these days, once in a while, we do hear from
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responsible authors regarding what they want to be done to their
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documents. Emma <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6431:200401:ikndjmbepldekebhjjej">got
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in touch</ulink> with Harish Thampi, the author of the Acer HOWTO, which
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has not been updated since 3 years. Harish <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6432:200401:ikndjmbepldekebhjjej">would
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probably</ulink> submit the document to linux-on-laptops.com</para>
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<para>Emma is also <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6426:200401:ikndjmbepldekebhjjej">going
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through our collection</ulink> to check for out of date documents and
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duplicate information suggesting merging of documents wherever
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applicable. Thank you Emma for that.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="news-item3">
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<title>Docbook, Emacs/PSGML documentation</title>
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<para>Charles Curley pointed to us that there is some useful
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documentation on Docbook and Emacs/PSGML at <ulink
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url="http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/documentation-guide/">http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/documentation-guide/</ulink>.</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="feedback">
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<title>HOWTO contribute to TLDP</title>
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<para>The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing
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free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If
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you want to help TLDP, consider joining
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<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
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<para>Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the
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community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events
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related to free software documentation. Write to us at
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<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
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<para>The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and
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Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</para>
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</sect1>
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</article>
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