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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> 4<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-01-28<br>
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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">CD Distributions EN HOWTO removed</a></dt>
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<dt>3.2. <a href="#news-item2">manpages from the IEEE and The Open Group</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#feedback">HOWTO contribute to TLDP</a></dt>
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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">Jeff Horsager wants to write an SSH HOWTO. He motivates the proposal <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6541:200401:acgppaonbojgaglolioj" target=
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"_top">here</a>. A lot of people responded positively and <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6545:200401:acgppaonbojgaglolioj" target="_top">an outline</a> started to form.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Jing S. Tang wrote a <a href="http://www.tangshanjing.0catch.com/bootingUSB_ldp.htm" target="_top">bootingUSB HOWTO</a>. This document explains how to create a Linux
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bootable USB disk step by step. The target USB disk will contain the GRUB boot loader, the boot file system and the root file system.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">David Jao <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6562:200401:hnkfheeekokahihbpldi" target="_top">posted</a> a draft version of his <a href=
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"http://dominia.org/djao/dvd-howto/" target="_top">DVD Playback HOWTO draft</a>. Thomas Zimmerman also posted <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6573:200401:hedpdfoogcppgnlpcfnb" target=
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"_top">what he thinks</a> about the document, your comments are welcome.</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">There's a new version of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO/" target="_top">Linux Security HOWTO</a> by Kevin Fenzi and Dave Wreski. V2.3 covers passwords in
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GRUB and explains umask operation in detail.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/K7s5a-HOWTO.html" target="_top">K7s5a HOWTO</a>, an effort by Sebfrance, Andreas Willenbrink, Álvaro Reguly and Paolo Berva,
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documents the K7s5a mainboard. It has instructions to make the integrated sound board work, how to get the sensors to do sensible reporting and how to activate the LAN adapter. New in v1.6 are the
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instructions for Debian.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Daniel Quintiliani's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Windows-Newsreaders-under-Linux-HOWTO/" target="_top">Windows Newsreaders under Linux HOWTO</a> v2.2 covers the latest
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stable version of <a href="http://www.winehq.org/" target="_top">wine</a>, which causes a series of new problems. Daniel documents each newsreader with its particular bugs.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/" target="_top">Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO</a> v1.4 by Ian Ward has some minor
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corrections.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Mendel Cooper's <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/" target="_top">Advanced Bash Scripting Guide</a> v2.4 has bug fixes; the PDF version which previously had
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problems is now also OK.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Ralf Holzer released the v1.1 of his <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/" target="_top">Cryptoloop HOWTO</a>. This revision comes with updated information on
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patching util-linux, Loop-AES, Best Crypt.</span></li>
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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. CD Distributions EN HOWTO removed</h2>
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<p>Martin Wheeler requested that his HOWTO on "English-language GNU/Linux distributions on CD-ROM" be removed. You are pointed to either the <a href="http://www.distrowatch.com/" target=
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"_top">DistroWatch site</a> or the <a href="http://www.linux.org/dist/" target="_top">Linux Online site</a> as an alternative.</p>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="news-item2"></a>3.2. manpages from the IEEE and The Open Group</h2>
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<p>Alexander Voropay <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6575:200401:fnicdlaomnhkanlogpej" target="_top">updated</a> us that The <a href=
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"http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/pr_linuxman.html" target="_top">IEEE</a> and <a href="http://linuxpr.com/releases/6599.html" target="_top">The Open Group</a> have granted permission to the
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Linux Manual Pages Project to incorporate material from the joint IEEE 1003.1T POSIXR standard and The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="feedback"></a>4. 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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