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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> 2<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-01-14<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#new-released">New documents @ TLDP</a></dt>
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<dt>2. <a href="#new-for-review">Documents submitted for review</a></dt>
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<dt>3. <a href="#new-proposed">New document proposals</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#updated-docs">Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</a></dt>
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<dt>5. <a href="#tldp-world">News in The LDP world</a></dt>
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<dt>5.1. <a href="#news-item1">Malaysia mirror changes URL</a></dt>
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<dt>5.2. <a href="#news-item2">Out of date Acer HOWTO</a></dt>
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<dt>5.3. <a href="#news-item3">Docbook, Emacs/PSGML documentation</a></dt>
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<dt>6. <a href="#feedback">HOWTO contribute to TLDP</a></dt>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-released"></a>1. New documents @ TLDP</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Jakob Østergaard and Emilio Bueso have released their <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Software-RAID HOWTO</a> v1.00.0.
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The document discusses the 0.90 version of the RAID tools to use with 2.4 kernels. It starts off explaining everything you always wanted to know about RAID. The document is very well-balanced and
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accessible also to readers who are not familiar with the topic and is certainly worth a read!</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Media-Guide/html/" target="_top">Linux Media Guide</a> by Sheldon Rose adds more to our Linux advocacy department, providing tips
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and tricks on how to generate positive PR and press coverage for our favorite systems. The non-technical nature of this document makes it an ideal read for your managers, marketing and sales
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people.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-for-review"></a>2. Documents submitted for review</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Ralf Holzer updated the <a href="http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~rholzer/cryptoloop_mini_howto.html" target="_top">Cryptoloop Mini-HOWTO</a>. Comments on the new version are
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welcome.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-proposed"></a>3. New document proposals</h1>
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<p>David Jao is working on a DVD playing HOWTO, because, as he <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6400:200401:nnkgdppdkkplmdhkmeic" target="_top">points out</a>, the current document is
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way too outdated, unmaintained, and no longer even remotely accurate. Since everybody who wants to play DVDs on Linux runs into DMCA and other barriers, the proposal was hauled in
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enthusiastically.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="updated-docs"></a>4. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Peter Jay Salzman's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/" target="_top">Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO</a> v1.1. A popular document: translations in German, Spanish,
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Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese are available from <a href="http://www.dirac.org/linux/debian/jigdo" target="_top">Peter's web site</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Subhasish Ghosh updated the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Win+BSD+Linux-Install/html/index.htm" target="_top">Windows+BSD+Linux Installation Guide</a> on Intel
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architecture, using the GRUB boot loader. This edition has an extended troubleshooting section and adds RedHat 8.0 and FreeBSD 5.1 to the reader's choice.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html" target="_top">MS Outlook to Unix Mailbox Conversion mini-HOWTO</a> v1.4 by Greg Lindahl has additional
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information on the conversion of attachments, which can sometimes be very troublesome because of the bundling techniques used in Outlook.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">David S. Lawyer, one of our most prominent LinuxDoc evangelists, published v0.03 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html" target="_top">Howtos with
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LinuxDoc mini-HOWTO</a>, which is a polish-up of the previous edition.<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">David didn't sit still the last couple of weeks: he did a rewrite of the devices section in the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Modem
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HOWTO</a>, which is now v0.32; added more on flow control and updated the device info in the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Serial HOWTO</a> v2.22 and there are some
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minor formatting changes in the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Text Terminal HOWTO</a>, v1.34.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Rick Moen found a couple more LUGS and did a license change in v1.7.5 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Linux User Group
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HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Miroslav Skoric's triplet: v1.29 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html" target="_top">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</a> tells about the upgrade-to-RH9 adventure
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and there is some minor rephrasing in v3.18 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html" target="_top">LILO mini-HOWTO</a> and v2.18 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html"
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target="_top">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The latest version of Peter Bieringer's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/index.html" target="_top">Linux+IPv6 HOWTO</a> (v0.45). This revision has some minor
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fixes in the document and the URLs and a few extensions.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-world"></a>5. News in The LDP world</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="news-item1"></a>5.1. Malaysia mirror changes URL</h2>
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<p>The responsible for the Selangor i-ownur.info mirror informed us about domain name problems they are having, due to which the mirror is now located at <a href="http://ldp.leakage.org" target=
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"_top">http://ldp.leakage.org</a>. Like the previous one, it is updated daily.</p>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="news-item2"></a>5.2. Out of date Acer HOWTO</h2>
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<p>Though The LDP is facing a lot of problems with old and out-of-date documents these days, once in a while, we do hear from responsible authors regarding what they want to be done to their
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documents. Emma <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6431:200401:ikndjmbepldekebhjjej" target="_top">got in touch</a> with Harish Thampi, the author of the Acer HOWTO, which has not been
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updated since 3 years. Harish <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6432:200401:ikndjmbepldekebhjjej" target="_top">would probably</a> submit the document to linux-on-laptops.com</p>
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<p>Emma is also <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6426:200401:ikndjmbepldekebhjjej" target="_top">going through our collection</a> to check for out of date documents and duplicate
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information suggesting merging of documents wherever applicable. Thank you Emma for that.</p>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="news-item3"></a>5.3. Docbook, Emacs/PSGML documentation</h2>
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<p>Charles Curley pointed to us that there is some useful documentation on Docbook and Emacs/PSGML at <a href="http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/documentation-guide/" target=
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"_top">http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/documentation-guide/</a>.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="feedback"></a>6. 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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