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<h1 class="title"><a name="AEN2"></a>TLDP Weekly News</h1>
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<b>Issue Number :</b> 18<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2003-08-26<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#AEN9">New documents</a></dt>
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<dd>
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<dl>
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<dt>1.1. <a href="#AEN11">Fresh@LDP</a></dt>
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<dt>1.2. <a href="#AEN21">Proposed new documents</a></dt>
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<dt>1.3. <a href="#AEN33">Submitted for review</a></dt>
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<dt>2. <a href="#AEN49">Updates</a></dt>
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<dt>2.1. <a href="#AEN51">HOWTOs</a></dt>
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<dt>2.2. <a href="#AEN68">Guides</a></dt>
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<dt>2.3. <a href="#AEN74">Various</a></dt>
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<dt>3. <a href="#AEN83">Happenings in the LDP world</a></dt>
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<dt>3.1. <a href="#AEN85">LDP Author Guide</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#feedback">Feedback and Contributions</a></dt>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="AEN9"></a>1. New documents</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN11"></a>1.1. Fresh@LDP</h2>
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<p>Two new documents this week:</p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Review Howard Shane's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Motorola-Surfboard-Modem/" target="_top">Motorola Surfboard 4100 + 4200 Series USB Cable Modem mini-HOWTO</a> if you
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want to know how to set up this type of cable modem.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">By the same author, we published the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Scanner-HOWTO/" target="_top">Scanner HOWTO</a>, a long-time black hole in the Linux documentation which
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is now being filled.</span></li>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN21"></a>1.2. Proposed new documents</h2>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Same goes for Daniel Quintiliani, who proposed a <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5635:200308:jlhemghkmopilehhclgh" target=
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"_top">Xnews-under-Linux-HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Rick Meyerhoff <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4929:200308:dpdmmjkaoffllcanppmg" target="_top">proposed</a> to write an InstallFest-HOWTO.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Timothy M. Lyons <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4962:200308:caoagifgbibgkipmobdn" target="_top">wanted to contribute</a> a new mini-HOWTO on using grub to
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multi-boot into RH9/Win2K/WinXP and using VMware and Raw disks to utilize any alternate OS's while in any one of the others.</span></li>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN33"></a>1.3. Submitted for review</h2>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Salvador Peralta posted a <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5614:200308:dldliacnddfeplmahjid" target="_top">Scripting Graphical commands with Tcl/Tk
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mini-HOWTO</a>, but Tabatha asked to send it to the general discuss mailing-list first for discussion.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Saqib Shaikh has been maintaining a document called the <span class="QUOTE">"BLinux Software Map"</span> which aims to give an objective overview of software currently
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available to help blind users use Linux and would like to submit to the LDP after review. If you are interested in reviewing this document, get in touch with <tt class="email"><<a href=
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"mailto:tabatha@merlinmonroe.com">tabatha@merlinmonroe.com</a>></tt>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">core_dump <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4957:200308:njejamjkdcgecipicpmj" target="_top">posted</a> his Xnews-under-Linux-HOWTO for review. The document
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describes how to get the Windows newsreader Xnews to work under Linux and deal with problems that may arise.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">David Braun's <a href="http://mica.nfshost.com/HOWTO/Disk-Encryption/" target="_top">Disk Encryption HOWTO</a> has been converted to DocBook. And David has requested for
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feedback.</span></li>
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</ul>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="AEN49"></a>2. Updates</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN51"></a>2.1. HOWTOs</h2>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Another update for Miroslav Skovic's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html" target="_top">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</a>, which is now v1.23. By the same author v
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3.12 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html" target="_top">LILO mini-HOWTO</a> and the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html" target="_top">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</a>
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v2.12.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">By Saqib Ali: the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO/" target="_top">Apache based WebDAV Server with LDAP and SSL</a>, v4.0.2.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">From Stephen A. Zarkos, we received the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Sentry-Firewall-CD-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Sentry Firewall CD HOWTO</a>, v1.3.1.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Linux Ethernet-HOWTO</a> by Paul Gortmaker, v2.9 is now available.</span></li>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN68"></a>2.2. Guides</h2>
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<li><span class="rss:item">M. Leo Cooper sent in v2.0 of the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/" target="_top">Advanced Bash Scripting Guide</a>.</span></li>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN74"></a>2.3. Various</h2>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Paul Sutton updated his <a href="http://www.tldp.org/REF/Joe-Command-Reference/" target="_top">JOE Command Reference</a> to v3.0.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">It appears that the heat has done our Spanish colleagues much good ;-) So much indeed, you better take a look yourself this time at the new items listed at <a href=
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"http://es.tldp.org" target="_top">http://es.tldp.org</a>.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="AEN83"></a>3. Happenings in the LDP world</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="AEN85"></a>3.1. LDP Author Guide</h2>
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<p>After about 30 hours of hard work, Emma Jane Hogbin <a href="http://cvs.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/guide/docbook/LDP-Author-Guide/" target="_top">commited</a> the changes that she had planned for the
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LDP-Author-Guide. You are allowed to poke around but Emma would prefer that no major changes apart from the re-organization that she had earlier suggested be done until the proposed task is
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complete.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="feedback"></a>4. Feedback and Contributions</h1>
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<p>You can help The Linux Documentation Project by:</p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Reviewing one of the draft versions of the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/authors/inprogress.html" target="_top">documents in progress</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Picking up one of the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html" target="_top">unmaintained documents</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Providing assistance with <a href="http://www.tldp.org/authors/markup.html" target="_top">markup</a>.</span></li>
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</ul>
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<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
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newspapers or magazines? You can update us by sending in links and information at <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:feedback@en.tldp.org">feedback@en.tldp.org</a>></tt>.</p>
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<p>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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