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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
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<article>
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<articleinfo>
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<volumenum>2005</volumenum>
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<issuenum>14 & 15</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2005-04-13</pubdate>
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<title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1 id="tldp-world-news">
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<title>News in The LDP world</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>TLDP documents RPM for Fedora?</para>
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<para>Rahul Sundaram indicated that he is planning to package The LDP
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docs for Fedora Extras. </para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="tldp-discussions">
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<title>Discussions on The LDP lists</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Docbook templates?</para>
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<para>Jaqui Greenlees was wondering where he can find the template file
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for the HOWTOs. Trevor Harmon replied pointing him to <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/templates-book.html">Links
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in the author guide</ulink> to the templates. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>LDP functioning</para>
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<para>Rodolfo J. Paiz said, with a <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:sss:9237:200504:bjbgnonlmmobjojdkkop">small
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hint of sadness</ulink>, that he will shortly be un-subscribing from the
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LDP lists. In the roughly 10 months he has been there, he has not found
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the time to make a more significant contribution (for several reasons)
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and believed that it is best that he focuses his efforts elsewhere.
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People went on to discuss what could be done to address his concerns and
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the topic of subject specialists was brought up again, upon which David
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Lawyer said, <quote>I just want to remind people that my proposal for
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subject specialists was not just for people to list themselves as
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specialists, but for them to assume responsibility for all the docs in
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their field of specialty. This responsibility would begin with the
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specialist reviewing all the docs in this subject and possibly
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suggesting mergers or splits. Also, if some (or even all) of the docs
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are out-of-date, the subject specialist would need to either get the
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existing authors to redo them or (in many cases) recruit new authors.
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One can use the Internet for recruiting: Find people who discuss the
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topic on various mailing lists (and who know what they are writing
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about), contact local Linux User Groups, etc. So, the subject
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specialist is both a reviewer, coordinator (merge or split), and
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recruiter. It's a lot of work. The categories (subjects) need to be
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selected so that there will be at least a few docs in that subject.
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Also, in some cases, the subject specialist may also be the author of a
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doc in that subject area.</quote>. </para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="new-review">
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<title>Documents submitted for review</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Trevor Harmon submitted a <ulink
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url="http://doc.ece.uci.edu/~tharmon/files/TimeSys-Linux-Install-mini-HOWTO.html">TimeSys
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Linux Install mini HOWTO</ulink> for review. The document is intended
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to be a quick-start guide for installing TimeSys Linux on a typical
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desktop workstation. </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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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Jim Lieb proposed to write a Kernel Tunable Parameters
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HOWTO that would be a reference for all of the tuning parameters
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available in the kernel as of version 2.4.22 and 2.6.11. He already had
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a few drafts in place. Rahul Sundaram said that the right place for
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such a dynamic document would probably be the kernel sources in the
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Documentation directory. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Rot Hopkins proposed to write a Mounting Windows
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partitions HOWTO. This document came about because he had a dual boot
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system with a Chinese version of Windows 2K, which had file names in
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both Chinese and Japanese, and these file names weren't displaying
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correctly. The document would talk about (1) umask - The true way in
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which it is used to calculate file/dir permissions (2) mount and fstab -
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various options required for mounting a vfat partition and (3) timestamp
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- Thrown in for those who are interested. </para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</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>Miroslav "Misko" Skoric updated the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS
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mini-HOWTO</ulink>, <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO
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mini-HOWTO</ulink> and <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</ulink>
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documents. They are now at versions v1.33, v3.23 and v2.22
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respectively. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Avi Alkalay, Donovan Rebbechi and Hal Burgiss's <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/">Optimal Use of Fonts on
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Linux</ulink> has been updated to v2005-03-31. Avi's changes for this
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version has improved desktop configuration guidelines for higher
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resolution screens, and a better layout for authors. </para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="tldp-mirrors">
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<title>Mirror information update</title>
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<para>The following are the latest additions to our <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html">list of mirrors</ulink>:</para>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://www.nymphomatic.org/mirror/LDP/">http://www.nymphomatic.org/mirror/LDP/</ulink>
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maintained by Marko Crnic in Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska) and updated
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daily. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://www.linwiz.com/ldp/">http://www.linwiz.com/ldp/</ulink>
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maintained by Roland Venter in Auckland, NZ and updated daily as against
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twice a week before. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://tldp.attrition.jp">http://tldp.attrition.jp</ulink>
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maintained by ryan@attrition.jp in Tokyo, Japan and updated daily. This
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is the first official mirror in Japan. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://opensourcemirrors.org/tldp">http://opensourcemirrors.org/tldp</ulink>
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maintained by osm@hostwaydcs.com in Austin, TX, USA and updated daily at
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2am. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://tldp.corporacionlinux.cl">http://tldp.corporacionlinux.cl</ulink>
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maintained by Rodrigo Henriquez M. in Santiago, Chile and updated daily.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://www.linux.org.py/LDP/">http://www.linux.org.py/LDP/</ulink>
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maintained by Oliver (mirror@linux.org.py) in Paraguay and updated
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daily. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://ldp.mirrorplus.org">http://ldp.mirrorplus.org</ulink>
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maintained by admin@mirrorplus.org of mirrorplus.org in Munich, Germany
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and updated daily. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://debian.phys.hacettepe.edu.tr/LDP">http://debian.phys.hacettepe.edu.tr/LDP</ulink>
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maintained by Mustafa Mithat Bayramgil in Ankara (Hacettepe University
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Physics Eng. Dept.), Turkey and updated 6 times a day.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://mirror.pacific.net.au/ldp/">http://mirror.pacific.net.au/ldp/</ulink>
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maintained by mirror-team@pacific.net.au in Sydney, Australia and
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updated 3 times daily. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://ldp.mirrors.asianbaptist.org/">http://ldp.mirrors.asianbaptist.org/</ulink>
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maintained by Matthew Isam in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US. Updated daily.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://viveka.math.hr/LDP/">http://viveka.math.hr/LDP/</ulink> the
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only mirror in Croatia, maintained by Vedran Sego in Zagreb, Croatia and
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updated daily (at 03:05 local time). </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://ldp.rospot.com/">http://ldp.rospot.com/</ulink> maintained
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by Marius David in Timisoara, Romania and updated daily.
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</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="tldp-contribute">
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<title>The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</title>
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<para><ulink url="http://tldp.org/">The Linux Documentation Project</ulink>
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(TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the
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GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help TLDP, consider joining
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<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email> (a low volume discussion mailing
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list). You can also send your suggestions to
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<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>. </para>
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<para>The LDP Weekly News is compiled, edited and published by Machtelt Garrels
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(Tille) and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag (Giri) with help from several other people.
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To receive this newsletter weekly in your mailbox, subscribe to the
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<email>news-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email> mailing list. Back issues are
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available at <ulink url="http://tldp.org/ldpwn">http://tldp.org/ldpwn</ulink>
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</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 related
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to free software documentation. Write to us at
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<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>. </para>
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</sect1>
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</article>
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