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<volumenum>2003</volumenum>
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<issuenum>18</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2003-08-26</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>Two new documents this week:</para>
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<listitem><para>Review Howard Shane's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Motorola-Surfboard-Modem/">Motorola Surfboard 4100 + 4200 Series USB Cable Modem mini-HOWTO</ulink> if you want to know how to set up this type of cable modem.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>By the same author, we published the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Scanner-HOWTO/
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">Scanner HOWTO</ulink>, a long-time black hole in the Linux documentation which is now being filled.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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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>Same goes for Daniel Quintiliani, who proposed a <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5635:200308:jlhemghkmopilehhclgh">Xnews-under-Linux-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Rick Meyerhoff <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4929:200308:dpdmmjkaoffllcanppmg">proposed</ulink>
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to write an InstallFest-HOWTO.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Timothy
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M. Lyons <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4962:200308:caoagifgbibgkipmobdn">wanted
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to contribute</ulink> a new mini-HOWTO on using grub to multi-boot into
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RH9/Win2K/WinXP and using VMware and Raw disks to utilize any alternate OS's
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while in any one of the others.</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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<listitem><para>Salvador Peralta posted a <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5614:200308:dldliacnddfeplmahjid">Scripting Graphical commands with Tcl/Tk mini-HOWTO</ulink>, but Tabatha asked to send it to the general discuss mailing-list first for discussion.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Saqib Shaikh has been maintaining a document called the
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<quote>BLinux Software Map</quote> which aims to give an objective
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overview of software currently available to help blind users use Linux
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and would like to submit to the LDP after review. If you are interested
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in reviewing this document, get in touch with
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<email>tabatha@merlinmonroe.com</email>.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>core_dump <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4957:200308:njejamjkdcgecipicpmj">posted</ulink> his Xnews-under-Linux-HOWTO for review. The document describes how to get the Windows newsreader Xnews to work under Linux and deal with problems that may arise.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>David Braun's <ulink url="http://mica.nfshost.com/HOWTO/Disk-Encryption/">Disk Encryption HOWTO</ulink> has been converted to DocBook. And David has requested for feedback.</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>Another update for Miroslav Skovic's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</ulink>, which is now v1.23. By the same author v 3.12 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink> and the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</ulink> v2.12.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>By Saqib Ali: the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO/">Apache based WebDAV Server with LDAP and SSL</ulink>, v4.0.2.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>From Stephen A. Zarkos, we received the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Sentry-Firewall-CD-HOWTO.html">Sentry Firewall CD HOWTO</ulink>, v1.3.1.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html">Linux Ethernet-HOWTO</ulink> by Paul Gortmaker, v2.9 is now available.</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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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>M. Leo Cooper sent in v2.0 of the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">Advanced Bash Scripting Guide</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Various</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Paul Sutton updated his <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/REF/Joe-Command-Reference/">JOE Command Reference</ulink> to v3.0.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>It appears that the heat has done our Spanish colleagues much good ;-) So much indeed, you better take a look yourself this time at the new items listed at <ulink url="http://es.tldp.org" />.</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>LDP Author Guide</title>
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<para>
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After about 30 hours of hard work, Emma Jane Hogbin <ulink url="http://cvs.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/guide/docbook/LDP-Author-Guide/">commited</ulink> the changes that she had planned for the LDP-Author-Guide. You are allowed to poke around but Emma would prefer that no major changes apart from the re-organization that she had earlier suggested be done until the proposed task is complete.
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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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