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<article>
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<articleinfo>
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<volumenum>2005</volumenum>
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<issuenum>35</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2005-09-28</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>Bash Guide Review</para>
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<para>Michael T Kerrisk took a look at the <ulink
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url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html">Bash
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Beginners Guide</ulink> authored by Machtelt Garrels and said that it
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looked fine. Machtelt Garrels indicated that a review of the document
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would be good because she happens to be a non native English speaker. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Benchmark-of-the-filesystems-HOWTO</para>
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<para>Svetoslav Chukov's <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?9:mss:269:200509:odhcbkbfccdbmebdhdkg">Benchmark-of-the-filesystems-HOWTO</ulink>
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was posted to the editors mailing list calling for volunteers to review
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the document. Pradeep Padala, the author or <ulink
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url="http://logfs.sourceforge.net">logfs</ulink>, a log structured file
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system for Linux volunteered to look at the document and revert back in
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a couple of weeks. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>non-free documentation in Debian main</para>
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<para>Frank Lichtenheld <ulink
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url="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/09/msg00007.html">sent
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a mail</ulink> to the debian-devel-announce mailing list indicating how
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documentation in Debian's 'main' archive would be removed if it doesn't
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meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Things to do, dealing with
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non-free documentation in developers individual packages and filing bugs
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about non-free documentation has been covered in the announcement. </para>
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</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>Steven A sent in his update to the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Quake-HOWTO.html">Linux Quake HOWTO</ulink>.
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The document is not an exhaustive HOWTO of setting up any one Quake
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program, but a modern guide to GLQuake, a collection of the most useful
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tips, and a pointer to the best resources still available on the web -
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concentrating on the many engine re-writes and incredible add-ons which
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make Quake such a great game. </para></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>Status of the Linux-SAN Document</para>
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<para>Albretch Mueller <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9688:200509:ciopbonbpdkgbdmldpgd">asked</ulink>
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what the status of the <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?7:mss:9986:200404:ciifjaeehkhhbdkkdcle">Linux-SAN
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HOWTO or Guide</ulink> that was proposed in Apr 2004 was. Machtelt
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Garrels indicated that The LDP did not hear from the author. A document
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on the said topic would be a very valuable addition to the LDP
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collection. </para>
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</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>There haven't been any new mirrors or modifications to our existing
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, however, Asim from the oracle club in Pakistan indicated that he
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would like to have a server for TLDP in Pakistan. We shall update you
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in case there is a new mirror there. </para>
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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
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Project</ulink> (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality
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documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help
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TLDP, consider joining <email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email> (a
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low volume discussion mailing list). You can also send your suggestions
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to <email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>. </para>
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<para>The LDP Weekly News is compiled, edited and published by Machtelt
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Garrels (Tille) and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag (Giri) with help from several
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other people. To receive this newsletter weekly in your mailbox,
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subscribe to the <email>news-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email> mailing list.
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Back issues are available at <ulink url="http://tldp.org/ldpwn" />
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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
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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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</sect1>
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</article>
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