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<articleinfo>
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<volumenum>2003</volumenum>
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<issuenum>28</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2003-11-05</pubdate>
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<title>The Linux Documentation Project 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>Proposed new documents</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Niko Sauer has written some interesting things about <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6206:200311:paomefdmeppfbonhpnbd">USB memory sticks</ulink> and would like to know what you think about it.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Lars Strand <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5174:200311:abimfngadhibogkclfmk">proposed</ulink>
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a Mobile IPv6 HOWTO. A draft version is available at <ulink
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url="http://www.gnist.org/~lars/work/insc/mipv6/">http://www.gnist.org/~lars/work/insc/mipv6/</ulink>.</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>HOWTOs</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Here it is in one-dot-oh!: the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/">Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO</ulink>, by Peter Jay Salzman.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>After the fashion of the <ulink url="http://koeln.ccc.de/prozesse/writing/artikel/hacker-werden.html">Wie werde ich Hacker HOWTO</ulink> (<ulink url="http://babelfish.altavista.com/">Babelfish</ulink> might be required), TLDP has its own HOWTO-become-a-guru doc, the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO/">Linux Reading List HOWTO</ulink>. This list is what Eric Steven Raymond considers to be essential reading if you want to become a UNIX/Linux programmer. The list is revision v2.1 now.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Alavoor Vasudevan's <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/C-C++Beautifier-HOWTO/">C-C++ Beautifier
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HOWTO</ulink> v16.7. He also tries to keep the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/">Linux Kernel HOWTO</ulink> up
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to date. He sent in an update to his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO/">Vim Color Editor HOW-TO</ulink>. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Did you know that Miroslav <quote>Misko</quote> Skoric's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</ulink> contains a section on how to <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB-11.html">communicate with LinFBB in Serbian</ulink>? Check it out, preferably in the latest version, 1.26.</para>
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<para>As usual, Miroslav's updates come in threes: you also get the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink>, v3.15, and the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</ulink>, v2.15.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>Rick Moen found some more interesting sources of Linux information and listed them in v1.7.3 of his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Jean-Daniel Dodin's <ulink
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url="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Partition-Rescue/index.html">Partition-Rescue
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HOWTO</ulink> has been converted to docbook and the new version is under the LGPL.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Guides</title>
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<para>Mendel Cooper promises v2.2 of his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</ulink> to be full of exiting new examples demonstrating all the <quote>nifty things</quote> you can do with Bash arrays, and much more!</para>
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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>TLDP-ES/LuCAS unreachable</title>
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<para>Ismael Olea sent in an update telling us that the Spanish LDP folks are down because of a disk failure and
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they are working on fixing it. </para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>LDP author tools RPM packages</title>
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<para>Rodolfo J. Paiz <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5163:200311:ehngfbpnepphojhokgdn">summarized</ulink>
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his findings on, what packages form parts of the authoring tools RPM
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packages on his RedHat 9 based system. This is his <ulink
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url="http://apollo.simpaticus.com/other/docbook.packagelist.shrike.txt">package
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list descriptions</ulink> page. On a Debian GNU/Linux based system, the
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packages that provide for these capabilities can be installed from the
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linuxdoc-tools and the docbook-utils Debian packages. </para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Linux+XFS HOWTO maintenance</title>
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<para>Russel Ingram, the maintainer for the <ulink
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url="www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+XFS-HOWTO/">Linux+XFS HOWTO</ulink> feels that
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the document is out of its useful life as several linux distributions
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offer XFS at installation time. He plans to move the document to the
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unmaintained section of the HOWTOs and welcomes anyone who feels they
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can turn this back into an up to date and useful document. Contact
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Russel at ringram at gargoylecc.com if you are interested. </para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Linux SAG guide maintenance</title>
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<para>Alex Weeks would be maintaining the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/">Linux System Administrator
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Guide</ulink> for novices., taking it over from Stephen Stafford. If you would like to help
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Alex as a co-maintainer, get in touch with him. </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>The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing
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free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system.
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Announcements about TLDP are made via
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<email>announce-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email>. If you want to help TLDP,
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take a look at the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/authors/">tasks
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page</ulink>, and consider joining
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<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email>.</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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<para>LDP Weekly News is compiled and 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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