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>TLDP Weekly News</H1
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>Issue Number : </B
>6<BR><B
>Publication Date : </B
>2003-05-27<BR><HR></DIV
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>Table of Contents</B
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><DT
>1. <A
HREF="#AEN9"
>LDP guides</A
></DT
><DT
>2. <A
HREF="#AEN14"
>New documents</A
></DT
><DD
><DL
><DT
>2.1. <A
HREF="#AEN16"
>Fresh@LDP</A
></DT
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>2.2. <A
HREF="#AEN21"
>Proposed new documents</A
></DT
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></DD
><DT
>3. <A
HREF="#AEN27"
>Updates</A
></DT
><DD
><DL
><DT
>3.1. <A
HREF="#AEN29"
>HOWTOs</A
></DT
></DL
></DD
><DT
>4. <A
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>Happenings in the LDP world</A
></DT
><DD
><DL
><DT
>4.1. <A
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>Online editor for DocBook</A
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><DT
>5. <A
HREF="#feedback"
>Feedback and Contributions</A
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>1. LDP guides</H1
><P
>When talking about TLDP, people often forget about the
<EM
>Guides</EM
> section. Check out our collection of the
<A
HREF="http://tldp.org/guides.html"
TARGET="_top"
>longer, in-depth
documents</A
>!</P
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><DIV
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><HR><H1
CLASS="sect1"
><A
NAME="AEN14"
></A
>2. New documents</H1
><DIV
CLASS="sect2"
><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="AEN16"
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>2.1. Fresh@LDP</H2
><P
>There were no 1.0s announced by Greg this week, however our Spanish colleagues added a document titled <A
HREF="http://es.tldp.org/Manuales-LuCAS/blfs-es/"
TARGET="_top"
>Más Allá de Linux From Scratch</A
>, which is a continuation of the <A
HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/LDP/lfs/html/index.html"
TARGET="_top"
>Linux From Scratch</A
> guide, including support for X, sound, printers and more.</P
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><HR><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="AEN21"
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>2.2. Proposed new documents</H2
><P
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><UL
><LI
><P
>&#13;Guylhem Aznar is thinking about a FAQ on Using the keypad under X and
has <A
HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4433:200305:olbeodcabjmcmlibbidb"
TARGET="_top"
>requested</A
>
information on certain problems that people seem to face.
</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="sect1"
><HR><H1
CLASS="sect1"
><A
NAME="AEN27"
></A
>3. Updates</H1
><DIV
CLASS="sect2"
><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="AEN29"
></A
>3.1. HOWTOs</H2
><P
>We received updates for the following HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs:</P
><P
></P
><UL
><LI
><P
>The <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Xterminals/"
TARGET="_top"
>Connecting X Terminals to Linux Mini-HOWTO</A
> v1.2 by Salvador J. Peralta</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>David Horton sent in v1.1 of the <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/LDP/Pocket-Linux-Guide/html/"
TARGET="_top"
>Pocket Linux Guide</A
>.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>A dot-oh, but it's v2.0 of the <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO/"
TARGET="_top"
>Linux 2.4 SCSI subsystem HOWTO</A
>, by Douglas Gilbert.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Svetoslav Slavtchev is still polishing the <A
HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/index.html"
TARGET="_top"
>XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO</A
>, remember, the new HOWTO covering the connection of multiple monitors, soundcards, keyboards etc. to one server.</P
></LI
></UL
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="sect1"
><HR><H1
CLASS="sect1"
><A
NAME="AEN45"
></A
>4. Happenings in the LDP world</H1
><DIV
CLASS="sect2"
><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="AEN47"
></A
>4.1. Online editor for DocBook</H2
><P
>&#13;Stein Gjoen <A
HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4441:200305:jbdbakjaacfndkmflfhi"
TARGET="_top"
>posted </A
>a
URL to his <A
HREF="http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/The_LDP_HOWTO_Generator.html"
TARGET="_top"
>LDP HOWTO
Generator</A
>. Nicolas Chauvat however, said that doing something
similar in PHP would be
re-inventing the wheel and pointed the list to <A
HREF="http://demo.plone.org"
TARGET="_top"
>demo.plone.org</A
> and the Archetypes
documentation to get started.
</P
><P
>&#13;Elsewhere, David Merrill posted an update to wt2db (WikiText to DB) and
announced that he was getting back to work on <A
HREF="http://www.lampadas.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>Lampadas</A
>. Nicolas Chauvat <A
HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4456:200305:geodfhigcjggppgidpgj"
TARGET="_top"
>would
be updating</A
> him with the things that have moved forward since
David was last involved.
</P
><DIV
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><HR><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="AEN56"
></A
>4.1. DFSG analysis of default LDP license</H2
><P
>&#13;Since many of the mini-HOWTOs are under the default LDP license, Branden
Robinson subjected the default LDP license to a Debian Free Software
Guidelines <A
HREF="http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200305/msg00282.html"
TARGET="_top"
>analysis</A
>
and proposed several changes to it. People further discussed the license
and the changes on the the <A
HREF="http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/"
TARGET="_top"
>debian-legal mailing
list</A
>.
</P
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><HR><H1
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NAME="feedback"
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>5. Feedback and Contributions</H1
><P
>Please help us create this weekly newsletter. Seen a site putting
in a story with a link to the LDP? Completed the translation of any
HOWTO? Know of any articles about the LDP published in newspapers or
magazines? We are curious ;-). You can help us by sending in links and
information at <TT
CLASS="email"
>&#60;<A
HREF="mailto:feedback@en.tldp.org"
>feedback@en.tldp.org</A
>&#62;</TT
>.</P
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>LDP Weekly News is edited by
Machtelt Garrels, Torsten Schlabach and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
with help from several other people.</P
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