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<article>
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<articleinfo>
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<volumenum>2005</volumenum>
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<issuenum>17</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2005-03-27</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 Process Flowcharts</para>
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<para>Machtelt Garrels updated The <ulink
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url="http://tille.xalasys.com/training/tldp/flowcharts.php">LDP process
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flowcharts</ulink> based on the comments that she received from various
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peopled who looked at the earlier versions. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>IPMI on Linux HOWTO</para>
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<para>In case you are looking for Tim Small's IPMI on Linux HOWTO at
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<ulink
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url="http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html">http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html</ulink>
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but cannot get the document, Greg Ferguson has uploaded a copy to <ulink
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url="http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/IPMI_on_Debian.html">http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/IPMI_on_Debian.html</ulink>.
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Review comments on the document may be sent to Tim Small. </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>Understanding The Linux Kernel Initcall Mechanism</para>
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<para>Machtelt Garrels, in response to an email on the
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<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email> mailing list, wrote to Trevor
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Woerner asking him if he was interested in contributing a document that
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he wrote to The LDP and explained the process of submission. Trevor
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responded with pointers to his work <ulink
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url="http://geek.vtnet.ca/docs.html">http://geek.vtnet.ca/docs.html</ulink>,
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<ulink
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url="http://geek.vtnet.ca/doc/initcall/index.html">http://geek.vtnet.ca/doc/initcall/index.html</ulink>
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and <ulink
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url="http://geek.vtnet.ca/doc/initcall/initcall.tar.bz2">http://geek.vtnet.ca/doc/initcall/initcall.tar.bz2</ulink>.
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Rahul Sundaram posted his comments on the draft version, and Trevor
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indicated that he would post a revised version shortly. Machtelt
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indicated that being proactive and inviting authors to LDP is probably a
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good thing to do. </para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Bug Reporting System For The LDP?</para>
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<para>Stein Gjoen pointed out that Tim Small did not get any feedback on
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his IPMI on Linux (specifically Debian) HOWTO at <ulink
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url="http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html">http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html</ulink>.
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Stein suggested a few improvements to the LDP process to not let
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proposals slip by. Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said that the process would be
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easy if The LDP had a bug tracking system. </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>Ian Hakes and Rory Hinton's <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DB2-HOWTO/">DB2 Universe Database Version 8.2
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for Linux HOWTO</ulink> has been updated to v1.1.3. In this version,
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they added Red Hat Enterprise 4 instructions and corrected minor
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cross-reference link issues. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>David Horton's <ulink
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url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Pocket-Linux-Guide/html/">Pocket Linux
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Guide</ulink> has been updated to v3.1 with minor clarifications and
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spelling corrections. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The Linux Professional Institute / Sheldon Rose's <ulink
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url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Media-Guide/html/">Guide to Managing Media and Public Relations in the Linux
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Community</ulink> has been updated to v1.1 to correct links and
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update the copyright notice. </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
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url="http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ldp/">http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ldp/</ulink>
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and <ulink
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url="ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ldp/">ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ldp/</ulink>
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maintained by mirror@dotsrc.org in Aalborg, Denmark and updated daily.
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This is the result of a re-organization at sunsite.dk, with them being
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called as dotsrc.org now and moving to newer (and more) servers.
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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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