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<volumenum>2004</volumenum>
<issuenum>25</issuenum>
<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
<pubdate>2004-06-23</pubdate>
<title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
</articleinfo>
<sect1 id="updated-docs">
<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>
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<listitem><para>David S. Lawyer cleaned up the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html">Plug-and-Play HOWTO</ulink>. v1.08 clarifies certain explanations, corrects of obsolete statements and has an introduction on hot pluggable devices and USB.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>v1.0.3 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/openMosix-HOWTO/">openMosix HOWTO</ulink> by Kris Buytaert has minor corrections.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The folks from <ulink url="http://www.traduc.org/">traduc.org</ulink> finished translating the <ulink url="http://www.traduc.org/docs/HOWTO/lecture/Hardware-HOWTO.html">Hardware HOWTO into French</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/">Introduction to Linux Guide</ulink> v1.14, by Machtelt Garrels, has an extended chapter about I/O redirection and more about Linux groups and related commands. Apart from the new topics, it also contains minor corrections and an updated glossary.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Miroslav "Misko" Skoric sent in his updates to the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</ulink>, the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink> and the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</ulink>. </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="tldp-world-news">
<title>News in The LDP world</title>
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<listitem>
<para>Getting ready for LSM</para>
<para>Jean-Philippe Gu&#233;rard let us know that members of the <ulink url="http://traduc.org/">Traduc.org team</ulink> will be attending the <ulink url="http://www.libresoftwaremeeting.org">5th Libre Software Meeting</ulink> from 6 to 10 July. He also hopes that this will be an occasion to strengthen the relationship with TLDP and to replace the dead <ulink url="http://fr.tldp.org/">fr.tldp.org</ulink> project with Traduc, the currently active French translation effort.</para>
</listitem>
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<para>New mirror sites</para>
<para>This is like the baby-boom, but with Linux now. The whole of Texas is apparently running Linux now, and Canada is on their heels:</para>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://tldp.mirrors.activenodes.com/" />: set up by Eduardo Valdes in Toronto, Canada;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://ldp.hughesjr.com/" />: Johnny Hughes is the maintainer for this mirror in Corpus Christi, Texas;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://ldp.edgescape.com/" />: also in Texas, in Dallas, by Timothy Folks.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="tldp-contribute">
<title>HOWTO contribute to The LDP</title>
<para><ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">The Linux Documentation
Project</ulink> (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality
documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help
TLDP, consider joining
<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
<para>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
<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
<para>The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</para>
</sect1>
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