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<volumenum>2004</volumenum>
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<issuenum>44</issuenum>
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<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
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<pubdate>2004-11-03</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-proposed">
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<title>New document proposals</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Matt Barnes would like to start a Linux Documentation - Audio
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Video project. The project aims to convert The LDP documents to wave and mp3
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format. The goal of this exercise is to show that it can be done, and that it
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should be done. The intent is to allow someone to download a media file into a
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media player and listen to the information rather than always having to read it
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and possibly stream them over the internet. Contact Matthew S Barnes (mbarnes
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at bfinity dot net) if you have more ideas. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>iSCSI-Linux HOWTO: iSCSI is becoming more popular,
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particularly on Linux. Ben Rockwood was bothered by the massive lack of
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documentation available and wrote his own, titled "A Quick Guide to iSCSI on
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Linux" (<ulink
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url="http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/iscsi/index.html">http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/iscsi/index.html</ulink>).
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The document is currently considered as the manual for the iSCSI Enterprise
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Target project (http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/) and is on of the popular
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guides to iSCSI on the net. Ben intends to update the document and
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submit it to The LDP for inclusion as a HOWTO rather than maintain it on his own
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site as a paper. </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Ben Rockwood noticed that the Benchmark HOWTO hasn't been updated since 1997. The unmaintained list shows a new maintainer for the doc, but an email to him got a failed response from the mail server. Ben is of the opinion that the document could be a bit more heavy on disk subsystems. Currently the document is geared towards general systems performance. Ben was wondering if he should start a new Disk-Benchmarking HOWTO and would like your input. Email benr@cuddletech.com</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>German SMIL tutorial on Linux: The Computing Center of the
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University of Kassel produced a SMIL introduction to Linux (around 4 hours of
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video, with subtitles in German and some accompanying figures). Andreas
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Matthias wrote in to offer this to The LDP for integration into The LDP but did
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not find any support for non-textual formats in. The (not yet sufficiently
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polished product) is at <ulink
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url="http://www.uni-kassel.de/hrz/anwendungen/matthias/unix-kurs/online">http://www.uni-kassel.de/hrz/anwendungen/matthias/unix-kurs/online</ulink>.
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He was wondering if someone who understands German and has some talent in
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laying out descriptive graphics would help them to complete the project. Please
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contact matthias@hrz.uni-kassel.de if you would like to offer help.
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</para></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>Avi Alkalay's HOWTO for Managing Accurate Date and Time (The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TimePrecision-HOWTO/">TimePrecision-HOWTO</ulink>) has been updated to v1.0.8. The new version has been translated to Hungarian. The section on why we need a precise clock and the section on chrony have been updated. </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>HOWTO contribute to The LDP</title>
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<para><ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">The Linux Documentation
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Project</ulink> (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality
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documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help
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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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