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>TLDP Weekly News</H1
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>Issue Number : </B
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>4<BR><B
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>Publication Date : </B
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>2003-05-13<BR><HR></DIV
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><DT
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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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><DD
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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="#AEN17"
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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="#AEN23"
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>Updates</A
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><DD
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><DL
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><DT
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>2.1. <A
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HREF="#AEN25"
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>HOWTOs</A
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></DD
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><DT
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>3. <A
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HREF="#AEN39"
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>Happenings in the LDP world</A
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><DD
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>3.1. <A
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HREF="#AEN41"
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>Editor for LinuxDoc/DocBook</A
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><DT
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>3.2. <A
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HREF="#AEN50"
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>Outage of LDP Services</A
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><DT
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>3.3. <A
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HREF="#AEN54"
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>Request For Comments</A
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></DD
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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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NAME="AEN9"
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>1. New documents</H1
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><H2
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><A
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NAME="AEN11"
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>1.1. Fresh@LDP</H2
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><UL
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>Our Spanish colleagues announced the arrival of <A
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HREF="http://genarin.hispalinux.es/LuCAS/Manuales-LuCAS/guia-rapida-newnat/Guia-rapida-de-Newnat.html.gz"
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TARGET="_top"
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>the fast guide to NewNAT</A
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> (in Spanish), by Christian Conejero.</P
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></LI
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><HR><H2
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NAME="AEN17"
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>1.2. Submitted for review</H2
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>Your comments are wanted on the <A
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HREF="http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/Conference-Server-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>GNU/Linux Conference Server HOWTO</A
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>, by Franck Martin.</P
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></LI
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NAME="AEN23"
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>2. Updates</H1
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NAME="AEN25"
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>2.1. HOWTOs</H2
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><P
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>Alavoor Vasudevan sent in v16.4 of the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/C-C++Beautifier-HOWTO/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>C-C++ Beautifier HOW-TO</A
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>, v10.9 of the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>LILO Linux Crash Rescue HOW-TO</A
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> and v5.7 of the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>The Linux Kernel HOWTO</A
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>. He can now take a couple of days off :).</P
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>Ricardo Alexandre Mattar submitted v1.1.0 of the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Samba-Authenticated-Gateway-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Samba Authenticated Gateway HOWTO</A
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>.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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>The <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Game-Server-HOWTO/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Game Server HOWTO</A
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> by Anders Jensen-Urstad was updated to v1.5.</P
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NAME="AEN39"
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>3. Happenings in the LDP world</H1
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NAME="AEN41"
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>3.1. Editor for LinuxDoc/DocBook</H2
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><P
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> The discussion on <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4310:200304:claiepedajakajhoajgg"
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TARGET="_top"
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>One-page
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replacement for LDP-Author-Guide</A
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Tabatha sent in <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4346:200305:pjodbfhkoeponcdaajjl"
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>her
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views</A
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> regarding an online editor for LinuxDoc/DockBook.
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Her requirements include prompting user for tags and
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validating/processing the document at the backend. She also indicated
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that someone was working on a PHP based tool for the same and that the
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the <SPAN
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>"form"</SPAN
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> idea, where a user could enter the relevant
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document information and then proceed to fill in the blanks until the
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document is complete is the secret of success. Greg Ferguson, however
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felt that it would be clunky and <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4354:200305:loceblldbelajghaloeg"
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TARGET="_top"
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>said
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that he was not sure</A
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> how tables, code examples, graphics would
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be handled and preferred the *easy* way of using a Sample-HOWTO.xml with
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good old reliable <B
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CLASS="command"
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>vi</B
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</P
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> Several people went on to discuss an alternative interface
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and tools that might solve the problem of editing in LinuxDoc/DockBook.
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</P
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><HR><H2
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>3.2. Outage of LDP Services</H2
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><P
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> Several services of The LDP were <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4381:200305:fojaagooonmldaebjmei"
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TARGET="_top"
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>affected</A
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> because of hard drive
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problems. The CVS was back later on Thursday (2003-05-08).
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</P
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><HR><H2
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>3.3. Request For Comments</H2
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> Rahul Sundaram, who is the author of the <A
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HREF="http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/LDP-FAQ"
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>LDP FAQ</A
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> and the <A
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HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Deciding-Linux-HOWTO"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Deciding If Linux
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is right for you HOWTO</A
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>, sent in a <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4384:200305:iankmjjljkgjdjagjcjl"
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>general
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update</A
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> and requested feedback on the documents that he
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maintains. He proposes someone takes over the <A
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HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DOSEMU-HOWTO.html "
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>DOSEMU HOWTO</A
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and the <A
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HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Automount.html "
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>Automount HOWTO</A
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</P
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><HR><H1
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NAME="feedback"
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>4. Feedback and Contributions</H1
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><P
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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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magazines? We are curious ;-). You can help us by sending in links and
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information at <TT
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>feedback@en.tldp.org</A
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>.</P
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>LDP Weekly News is edited by
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Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
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