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<articleinfo>
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<volumenum>2004</volumenum>
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<issuenum>11</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2004-03-17</pubdate>
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<title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
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</articleinfo>
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<sect1 id="new-released">
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<title>New documents @ TLDP</title>
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<para>Niko Sauer finished the procedures for submitting and revising his
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<ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/">USB Flash Memory
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HOWTO</ulink>. It describes both VFAT and ext2 formatting of the
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devices and also has notes on how to support them with a 2.6 kernel.
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Nico is the practical sort of person: he includes a section about making
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the memory sticks accessible to users and one about maintenance. You
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can try it out immediately on your <ulink
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url="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/11/139207&mode=thread&tid=159&tid=186">Swiss army knife</ulink>!</para>
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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>Claudio Cattazzo from the <ulink url="http://it.tldp.org">ILDP</ulink> was so kind as to announce the translations into Italian of the following documents:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-Compile-HOWTO/index.html">The Apache-Compile-HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-Install/index.html">The DocBook-Install HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO/index.html">DocBook XML/SGML Processing Using OpenJade</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/index.html">The Linux+IPv6-HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html">The NIS HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/index.html">The Program-Library-HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html">The Quota HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO/index.html">The Security HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>A big Thank You goes to Michele Ferritto, Giuseppe Briotti, Beatrice Torracca, Daniele Masini, Fabio Zanotti, Riccardo Vianello, Alessio Rolleri and Elisabetta Galli for translating and reviewing these documents.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>Ari Makela updated the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Finnish-HOWTO/">Finnish HOWTO</ulink>. Version 2.0.23 contains instructions for adapting Debian and some minor changes.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html">Text Terminal HOWTO</ulink> has been around for quite some time, but it is still useful <emphasis>and</emphasis> maintained, even though it discusses rather archaic hardware. New in v1.35: info on the Wyse 60 emulator.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Ralf Hölzer's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/">Cryptoloop HOWTO</ulink> v1.2 has a better comparison between Cryptoloop encryption and Loop-AES encryption of a partition, and more explanations on reasons to use either one or the other. Ralf also announces the deprecation of Cryptoloop in the 2.6 kernels, where it will be replaced by dm-crypt. While the code for dm-crypt is cleaner, it is still under development and thus far, no user-space tools are available.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Machtelt Garrels got some more input from readers and
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decided it's time to ask publication of v1.12 of the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html">Introduction to
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Linux</ulink> guide. This version includes notes on running gnome applications
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in KDE and vv., A new section on signals and stopping/re-nicing
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processes. The Xcdroast pic is deleted and KAudioCreator has been added.
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</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Mendel Cooper has an update ready for the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html">Advanced Bash Scripting
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Guide</ulink>, another work that keeps on growing. This revision
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contains extra entries on different commands, documentation links,
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further comments in the examples and stylistic changes. Mendel maintains
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a full length <ulink
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url="http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/Change.log">ChangeLog</ulink>
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too. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The v1p17 version of the <ulink
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url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NC-HOWTO.html">Linux NetStation
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HOWTO</ulink>. Kris Buytaert fixed some links in the document and would
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like to thank David Gilles for pointing out the mistakes.
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</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="tldp-world">
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<title>News in The LDP world</title>
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<sect2 id="news-item1">
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<title>Mirroring TLDP</title>
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<para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/mirrors.html">TLDP mirror page</ulink> is now up to date. After a long period of blocking, Jens Hardings was the first to activate a <ulink url="http://mirrors.csol.org/LDP/">new mirror in Chile</ulink>.</para>
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<para>We could do with some extra mirrors, for instance in Costa Rica,
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Croatia, French Guiana, Indonesia, Macau, Pakistan, Peru, Puerto Rico,
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Russia and Ukraine, where we have none for the moment (There is a
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<ulink
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url="http://tille.soti.org/images/tldp-world.jpg">cool world map</ulink>
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of the TLDP mirrors). And we could
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certainly do with some extra mirrors in China. Candidates, anyone?
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Contact us through the <email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>
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address!</para>
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<para>Tille <ulink
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url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6820:200403:ceejnklaecengajdijnf">posted
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a summary</ulink> of the update frequency of the mirrors and plans for
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weeding out the out-of-date ones. </para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="news-item2">
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<title>Spotlight on TLDP</title>
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<para>We've certainly know worse times as far as advertisement is concerned:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>LinuxJournal features a 2-page <ulink url="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7433">article about TLDP history</ulink> entitled <quote>Inside TLDP, a behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Linux Documentation Project</quote>, which has been partly published before in TLDP WN issues <ulink url="http://tldp.org/ldpwn/20030617.html">9/2003</ulink> and <ulink url="http://tldp.org/ldpwn/20030701.html">10/2003</ulink>. The article contains explanations on the name change from LinuxDoc to TLDP and completes the history from the point on where it stopped in our last publication of the matter.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="news-item3">
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<title>TLDP Tools Page</title>
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<para>Saqib Ali's popular tools for The LDP can be accessed directly
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from <ulink url="http://tools.tldp.org/">http://tools.tldp.org</ulink>.
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Saqib's Online DocBook XML Validator / Transformer is also linked from
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there. </para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="feedback">
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<title>HOWTO contribute to TLDP</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. If
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you want to help TLDP, 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>The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and
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Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</para>
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</sect1>
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</article>
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