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<h1 class="title"><a name="AEN2"></a>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</h1>
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<b>Issue Number :</b> 1<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-01-07<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#new-proposed">New document proposals</a></dt>
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<dt>2. <a href="#updated-docs">Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</a></dt>
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<dt>3. <a href="#tldp-world">News in The LDP world</a></dt>
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<dt>3.1. <a href="#news-item1">Active Brazilian TLDP effort</a></dt>
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<dt>3.2. <a href="#news-item2">DocBook quick reference card</a></dt>
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</dd>
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<dt>4. <a href="#discussions">Discussions on TLDP lists</a></dt>
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<dt>4.1. <a href="#discussion1">LDP unreachable author problems</a></dt>
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<dt>5. <a href="#feedback">HOWTO contribute to TLDP</a></dt>
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<p>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News wishes its readers a happy year 2004.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-proposed"></a>1. New document proposals</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Nathan Rosenquist submitted <a href="http://www.rsnapshot.org/howto.html" target="_top">a draft</a> for a HOWTO accompanying the <b class="command">rsnapshot</b> program.
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He awaits your comments.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="updated-docs"></a>2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Windows-Newsreaders-under-Linux-HOWTO/" target="_top">Windows Newsreaders under Linux HOWTO</a> v2.11 by Daniel Quintiliani focuses on
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getting the sound right.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">From Rick Moen we published v1.7.4 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Linux User Group HOWTO</a> and v1.4.16 of the <a href=
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"http://tldp.org/FAQ/WordPerfect-Linux-FAQ" target="_top">WordPerfect on Linux FAQ</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Greg Lindahl's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html" target="_top">MS Outlook to Unix Mailbox Conversion mini HOWTO</a> v1.3 details the conversion
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of MS Outlook (not Outlook Express) mailboxes to UNIX mailboxes using Mozilla or IMAP.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">More nifty things you can do with Bash in Mendel Cooper's <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/" target="_top">Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</a> v2.3.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/" target="_top">Linux Loadable Kernel Module HOWTO</a> by Bryan Henderson is now at v1.05. This revision has information on
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module.h and -DMODULE, typo fixes and adds information on kallsyms.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The revised <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/index.html" target="_top">LDP Author Guide</a> with the separated sections on authoring process (main
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guide) and technical HOWTOs (appendix). Now at v4.0.11.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Machtelt Garrels's <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html" target="_top">Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide</a> has been updated with a few
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changes in the document for better presentation of the content. The document is now at v1.9</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">From <a href="http://es.tldp.org/" target="_top">http://es.tldp.org/</a>: Antonio Villalón Huerta published v2.1 of <a href=
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"http://es.tldp.org/Manuales-LuCAS/doc-unixsec/" target="_top">Seguridad en Unix y Redes</a>.</span></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<hr>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-world"></a>3. News in The LDP world</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="news-item1"></a>3.1. Active Brazilian TLDP effort</h2>
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<p>The resurrection of our Portuguese-speaking colleagues LDP activity in Brazil. Check <a href="http://br.tldp.org" target="_top">http://br.tldp.org</a>.</p>
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<hr>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="news-item2"></a>3.2. DocBook quick reference card</h2>
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<p>A quick reference card for users of DocBook is available at <a href="http://ydirson.free.fr/docbook/docbook.refcard.pdf" target="_top">http://ydirson.free.fr/docbook/docbook.refcard.pdf</a>. A
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<a href="http://ydirson.free.fr/docbook/docbook.compact-refcard.pdf" target="_top">compact reference card</a> is also available.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="discussions"></a>4. Discussions on TLDP lists</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="discussion1"></a>4.1. LDP unreachable author problems</h2>
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<p>Jean-PhilippeGuérard, the howto translations coordinator for the French project traduc.org <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6343:200401:jpgoadlgfalflpipklib" target=
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"_top">said</a> that traduc.org would like to publish the Compressed-TCP Sessions using SSH-like tools HOWTO but wanted information regarding the license under which it was published and was not able
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to reach the author. David Lawyer responded saying that The LDP was facing similar problems and that they would be of little help.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="feedback"></a>5. HOWTO contribute to TLDP</h1>
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<p>The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help TLDP, consider joining <tt class=
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"email"><<a href="mailto:discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org">discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</a>></tt>.</p>
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<p>Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events related to free software documentation. Write to us at
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<tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:feedback@en.tldp.org">feedback@en.tldp.org</a>></tt>.</p>
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<p>The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</p>
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