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<article>
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<articleinfo>
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<volumenum>2003</volumenum>
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<issuenum>14</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2003-07-29</pubdate>
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<title>TLDP Weekly News</title>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1>
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<title>New documents</title>
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<sect2>
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<title>Fresh@LDP</title>
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<para>Only one new document this week, but a very impressive one: Binh
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Nguyen released the first official version of the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html">Linux
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Dictionary</ulink>. With nearly 9000 entries, this is one of the most
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complete references currently available.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Proposed new documents</title>
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<para>These new ideas this week:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Mark Hoebeke wants to target the novice developers HOWTO with a <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4757:200307:fcgicpacfnndhgpgbckc">mini-HOWTO</ulink> about the GNU auto-tools, such as <command>automake</command>, <command>autoconf</command> and <command>libtoolize</command>. His proposal was received very positively.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Carsten Kolassa wants to write what he would like to call the <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4772:200307:egongnhkkehbbbfdeaoj">Network-Programming HOWTO</ulink>, discussing among other topics how to write to and read from a socket, how to write simple servers and sniffers. His primary goal is to write in C, but Carsten plans on adding C++, Perl and Java examples as well.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Machtelt Garrels wants to contribute a document called <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4790:200307:hlbjhhhgndppbpgjlhlo">LDAP Operations HOWTO</ulink>, which is intended to link the <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO/index.html">LDAP HOWTO</ulink> with the <ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/LDAP-Implementation-HOWTO/index.html">LDAP Implementation HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Submitted for review</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Another revision of Howard Shane's <ulink
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url="http://66.25.191.66/docs/HOWTOS/Scanner/index.html">Scanner-HOWTO</ulink>
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is available for review.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>If you don't have a local Linux User Group yet, click through to the <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5410:200307:fmmbocmbfdobkmphigeo">Linux User Group HOWTO</ulink>. Note that this document is now maintained by Rick Moen, who took over from Kendall Clark.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>Updates</title>
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<sect2>
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<title>Guides</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Our Spanish colleagues finished the revision of the <ulink url="http://es.tldp.org/Manuales-LuCAS/doc-progmodlinux/doc-progmodlinux-html/">Guía de Programación de Módulos del Núcleo Linux</ulink>. The original document, the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/guides.html">Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide</ulink> is authored by Peter J. Salzman and Ori Pomerantz; the Spanish translation is the work of Rubén Melcón Fariña, assisted by Óscar Sanz Lorenzo and Francisco Javier Fernández.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>Happenings in the LDP world</title>
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<sect2>
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<title>merge of mini-HOWTOs</title>
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<para>
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Greg Ferguson sent in an <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4776:200307:igknncpmmhojbkamcnmn">update</ulink>
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indicating that the list of HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs have been merged and
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there is just one master (combined) list in the HOWTO-INDEX vs. the
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current two and only <ulink url="http://tldp.org/docs.html#howto">one
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set of tar files per document</ulink> variant vs. the current
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two.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>LDP Author Guide/DocBook, Xml, Jade etc.</title>
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<para>
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Simon Anderson was <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4795:200307:oohajcenhkhogihndlam">frustrated</ulink>
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with the LDP author guide and DocBook, and wondered why the LDP used
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DocBook even though <quote>Everyone reads HOWTOs in html
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anyway</quote>. In response Chris Karakas <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4833:200307:eiekdlajdgeofpemfdln">explained</ulink>
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why the separation of presentation of content from the content itself
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was important. Several people had <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4815:200307:pjodbfhkoeponcdaajjl">suggestions</ulink> for
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Simon Anderson to deal with <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4829:200307:oohajcenhkhogihndlam">
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the problems</ulink> that he was facing. Tabatha also <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4815:200307:pjodbfhkoeponcdaajjl">mentioned</ulink>
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that the author guide was being reviewed and revamped by Emma Jane
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Hogbin.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="feedback">
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<title>Feedback and Contributions</title>
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<para>
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You can help The Linux Documentation Project by:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Reviewing one of the draft versions of the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/authors/inprogress.html">documents in progress</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Picking up one of the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html">unmaintained documents</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Providing assistance with <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/authors/markup.html">markup</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Please help us create this weekly newsletter. Seen a site putting
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in a story with a link to the LDP? Completed the translation of any
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HOWTO? Know of any articles about the LDP published in newspapers or
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magazines? You can update us by sending in links and information at
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<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
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<para>LDP Weekly News is edited by
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Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
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with help from several other people.</para>
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</sect1>
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</article>
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