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>TLDP Weekly News</H1
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>Issue Number : </B
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>1<BR><B
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>Publication Date : </B
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>2003-05-06<BR><HR></DIV
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><B
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>Table of Contents</B
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><DT
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>1. <A
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HREF="#AEN9"
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>New documents</A
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><DT
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>1.1. <A
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HREF="#AEN11"
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>Fresh@LDP</A
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><DT
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>1.2. <A
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HREF="#AEN18"
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>Proposed new documents</A
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>1.3. <A
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HREF="#AEN31"
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>Submitted for review</A
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></DD
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><DT
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>2. <A
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HREF="#AEN37"
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>Updates</A
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><DD
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><DT
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>2.1. <A
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HREF="#AEN39"
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>HOWTOs</A
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><DT
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>2.2. <A
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HREF="#AEN53"
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>Guides</A
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></DD
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><DT
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>3. <A
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HREF="#AEN65"
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>Happenings in the LDP world</A
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><DT
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>3.1. <A
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HREF="#AEN69"
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>Comments on LDP Weekly News</A
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>3.2. <A
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HREF="#ldpag-rep"
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>One-page replacement for LDP-Author-Guide</A
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><DT
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>3.3. <A
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HREF="#lampadas"
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>Status of Lampadas</A
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></DT
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>3.4. <A
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HREF="#dir-change"
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>HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs under one roof</A
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></DD
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><DT
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>4. <A
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HREF="#feedback"
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>Feedback and Contributions</A
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CLASS="sect1"
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><H1
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><A
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NAME="AEN9"
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>1. New documents</H1
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><A
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NAME="AEN11"
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>1.1. Fresh@LDP</H2
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><P
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>One newcomer this week:</P
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>Raheel Abdul Hameed published the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Web-Browsing-Behind-ISA-Server-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Web Browsing Behind ISA Server HOWTO</A
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>, which helps out Linux users who have to make their connections from behind a Windows-based ISA server.</P
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></LI
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><DIV
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><HR><H2
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NAME="AEN18"
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>1.2. Proposed new documents</H2
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><P
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>Jim Hamilton sent in a <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4301:200305:jijofjlebpapjhofcape"
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TARGET="_top"
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>proposal to write a <EM
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>Boot from IDE RAID controller</EM
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> HOWTO or mini-HOWTO. We didn't see too much reaction on that, I bet this man is still waiting for some opinions.</P
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>Another interesting idea came from Uday Bhaskar Sarma Seetamraju, who has started on a document <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4303:200305:lichkgnpkkpkmmimkkih"
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TARGET="_top"
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>on archiving file systems using CVS</A
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>.</P
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>David Lawyer has been breaking his head last week over the LDP Author Guide, which has got quite some critics because it is rather confusing. Here's David's <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4310:200305:lcmdapknnkkfdjolmeoa"
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TARGET="_top"
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>one page replacement draft</A
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>.</P
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><DIV
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><HR><H2
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NAME="AEN31"
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>1.3. Submitted for review</H2
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>Ralf Spenneberg's IPsec HOWTO is now available for review at <A
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HREF="http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/IPsec-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/IPsec-HOWTO.html</A
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>.</P
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></LI
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><HR><H1
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NAME="AEN37"
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>2. Updates</H1
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><A
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NAME="AEN39"
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>2.1. HOWTOs</H2
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>The VideoLAN HOWTO got updated, v1.6 now available from <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/VideoLAN-HOWTO/"
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>http://tldp.org/HOWTO/VideoLAN-HOWTO/</A
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>. The same authors also worked together on the updates of the <A
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>VideoLAN Quickstart</A
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> document.</P
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>Eric S. Raymond sent in v1.2 of his Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO, which you can check at <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/"
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>http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/</A
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>.</P
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><LI
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><P
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>David lawyer worked on the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Modem-HOWTO</A
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>, which is now v0.27, and the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Serial HOWTO</A
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>, v2.18.</P
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><HR><H2
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>2.2. Guides</H2
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>Joy Goodreau, Kylie Smith and Christine Lorenz have been working on <A
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HREF="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/EVMSUG/html/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>the EVMS User Guide</A
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>, v2.0.0.</P
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><LI
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><P
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>Machtelt Garrels sent in the monthly updates for the <A
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>Introduction to Linux</A
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> guide.</P
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><LI
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><P
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>Our Spanish colleagues translated the 4.1 version of the <A
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>Linux from Scratch</A
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> guide.</P
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>3. Happenings in the LDP world</H1
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><P
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> Editorial Note: Due to unavoidable circumstances, The links in the
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discussions point only to <A
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>http://lists.tldp.org</A
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> and not to the
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archive mail link.
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</P
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><HR><H2
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><A
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NAME="AEN69"
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>3.1. Comments on LDP Weekly News</H2
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><P
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> Several people responded to the sample issue of LDP weekly news
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suggesting that the news be released to <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org"
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TARGET="_top"
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>LWN</A
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>, <A
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>newsforge and linux.com</A
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>. Saqib Ali
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<A
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>talked</A
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> about RSS feeds.
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</P
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><HR><H2
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>3.2. One-page replacement for LDP-Author-Guide</H2
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><P
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>David Lawyer felt that the LDP-Author-Guide was too long and
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intimidating for most people thinking of writing a HOWTO. He posted a
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<A
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>one page replacement</A
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> for the
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same. Greg Ferguson posted <A
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>his
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comments</A
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> on the document.</P
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><P
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>The thread petered out in a different direction when Torsten
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Schlabach <A
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>talked about</A
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WYSIWYG editing tools for DocBook but David Lawyer <A
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>said</A
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> that people
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would be turned off if they need to learn a new tool to write for the
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LDP. jdd indicated that he was not very pleased by the <SPAN
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>"switch"</SPAN
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LinuxDoc to DocBook upon which Greg Ferguson <A
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> that LDP still supports
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LinuxDoc.</P
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>3.3. Status of Lampadas</H2
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>Derek Hans was <A
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> if Lampadas was still
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officially being continued. Guylhem Aznar <A
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>clarified</A
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> that David Merrill started
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a re-design of Lampadas because of serious issues it had. The <A
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by David long ago. Nicolas Chauvat <A
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>said that</A
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> even though there was some
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>, David has not had time for it
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> Greg Ferguson <A
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> if there were any objections to merging the mini-HOWTOs into
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the set of full HOWTOs. The structural boundaries (two sets of tar
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files, different directory etc.) are to be removed but authors can still
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> in titles. People generally
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>4. Feedback and Contributions</H1
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>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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