mirror of https://github.com/tLDP/LDP
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<article>
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<articleinfo>
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<volumenum>2005</volumenum>
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<issuenum>37, 38, 39 & 40 </issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2005-11-02</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>Volunteer for the mirror checkup</para>
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<para>Machtelt Garrels (Tille) is looking for a volunteer to do the
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mirrors checkup. Things to do are: </para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Check time-stamp on all mirrors
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(http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html), all URLs should have a
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timestamp.txt in the top-level directory. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Contact the maintainers of mirrors that are not up to
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date, ask if they plan to correct the situation.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Create a list of mirrors that can not be contacted at
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all, those will be removed from
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http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Get in touch with Tille if you are interested. </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>LDP Manifesto "Overview" change</para>
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<para>David Lawyer looked at what he had drafted in 2001 for the
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"Overview" part of the Manifesto and edited it a little to reflect the
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current situation <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9693:200510:claiepedajakajhoajgg"
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/>. The revised version is available for comment and David posted a
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version <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9761:200510:ngajkeenpiioblmendee"
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/> asking if discuss list is OK with it. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>AsciiDoc and DocBook</para>
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<para>Scot Stevenson started <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9709:200510:mjolkcjnjbginkhagjki"
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/> started a discussion on why the LDP should start supporting AsciiDoc
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as one of the acceptable formats. Since Scot talked about LinuxDoc,
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David Lawyer put down his thoughts on the issue and said that the LDP
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could revive LinuxDoc. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>LDP or TLDP</para>
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<para>David Lawyer, while discussing the draft of the Introduction to
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the LDP Manifesto, said <quote>we did change was our URL from
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linuxdoc.org to tldp.org. But the old URL still works (I just tried
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it). So I'm in favor of continuing to use LDP and to not object if
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people call us TLDP. LDP has a lot of name recognition in printed
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books. If you look at our doc, there's several times more mention of
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LDP than TLDP. So it's not too late to go back to LDP. LDP is also
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used a lot on our website along with TLDP</quote>. Several people
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<ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:sss:9730:200510:pgfjjcaefnhkbdlhllan"
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/> were in favour of using LDP and Guylhem P. Aznar said that tldp.org
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was choosen because ldp.org was not available. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Alex Nordstrom, the maintainer of the Documentation Workgroup of
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the Linux Society of Sweden, sent in a mail to the discuss list <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9700:200510:ddjlkhedkoddjdpcpnpi"
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/> outlining the process of translating a document from the Linux
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Documentation Project (LDP) for the Linux Society of Sweden and
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requested comments on the translation effort workflow. </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>Rohit Agarwal submitted a <ulink
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url="http://geocities.com/vickys_box/libdc1394howtoVer2.pdf">How To for
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libdc1394</ulink>, the document discusses libdc1394 library that is used
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for IEEE1394 camera interfacing. </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>Scot W. Stevenson's <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Mock-Mainframe/">Mock Mainframe
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Mini-HOWTO</ulink> at v1.2. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Werner Heuser's <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO/">Linux Infrared
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HOWTO</ulink>. In version 3.7 technical and a language review have been
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done. Numerous bugs have been fixed and many URLs have been updated.
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Some obsolete stuff has been removed. Some documentation about
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Linux/IrDA with kernel 2.6 has been added (but there is still work to
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do). </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Miroslav "Misko" Skoric sent in updates to the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS
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mini-HOWTO</ulink> (v1.36), the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink> (v3.26)
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and the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT
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mini-HOWTO</ulink> (v2.25). </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Peter Bieringer's <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/">Linux IPv6 HOWTO</ulink>
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is now at v0.49. The new revision adds configuration hints for DHCPv6
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and has broken URL cleanups. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Avi Alkalay sent in his <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TimePrecision-HOWTO/">Managing Accurate Date
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and Time HOWTO</ulink>. v2005-10-12 of the document moves the Brazil
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zic file out and has been updated. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Mendel Cooper's <ulink
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url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html">Advanced
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Bash-Scripting Guide</ulink> at v3.7 is a bugfix update and adds some
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minor material. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>David S. Lawyer's <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html">Howtos-with-LinuxDoc-mini-HOWTO</ulink>
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has been updated and is now at v0.05.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Rob van der Putten's <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Leased-Line/">Leased line Mini HOWTO</ulink>
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now at v2.3b7 has information about additional PPPD options and routing.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Charles Curley's <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/">Linux
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Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO</ulink> is at v2.0. The new version
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has notes for Fedora Core 4. Notes for older versions of FC and Red Hat
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have been removed. There are changes in the writeup and scripts reflect
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using Knoppix instead of tomsrtbt. A few scripts have been changed so
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that long lines don't fall off the right side of printed pages.
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</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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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://ldp.nedmirror.nl/" /> maintained by
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Wessel Sandkuyl in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and is hosted in a
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multi-homed datacentre just under Schiphol. The mirror is updated
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daily. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://tldp.hord.ru" /> maintained by
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dmitri@gnu.org, knight@uportal.ru in Moscow, Russia and updated daily.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://ldp.hoxt.com/" /> maintained by Son
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Nguyen in Tampa, FL, USA and update daily. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://howto.hellug.gr" /> maintained by
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Apostolos (Greek HOWTOs maintainer) in Athens, Greece and updated daily.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.linuxshop.us/ldp/" /> maintained
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by Scott Braynard in NJ, USA and updated daily. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://ldp.linuxnetwork.com" /> maintained
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by Jeremiah Tieman in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and updated twice every
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day. </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
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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 our low volume discussion mailing list
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<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email>. You can also send your
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suggestions 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 news mailing list
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<email>news-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email>. Back issues are available at
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<ulink url="http://tldp.org/ldpwn">http://tldp.org/ldpwn</ulink> </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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