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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> 5<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-02-04<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-proposed">New document proposals</a></dt>
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<dt>3. <a href="#updated-docs">Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#tldp-world">News in The LDP world</a></dt>
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<dt>4.1. <a href="#news-item1">ISBN numbers for TLDP documents</a></dt>
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<dt>5. <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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<p>As Eric S. Raymond, author of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/" target="_top">Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO</a> puts it, this document explains
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<span class="QUOTE">"how to get various proprietary and restricted multimedia Damned Things working"</span> under Fedora Core. If you have problems getting MPEG, Flash, Java applications, RealMedia
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or MP3 to run, here's the place to start. Eric documents the standard tools and various free packages that you can add to your system.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-proposed"></a>2. New document proposals</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Kai Schlachter had troubles upgrading his glibc. He documented the procedure so as other people won't suffer like he did. He wants to submit his <a href=
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"http://www.murphyslantech.de/linux/glibc-howto/glibcinstall.pdf" target="_top">Glibc HOWTO</a> to our collection and awaits your comments. David Horton already <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6587:200401:neekgpjhpiplegfacnmj" target="_top">made some suggestions</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Michael Schlenstedt <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6624:200402:lckloedklkonmleklapa" target="_top">proposed to write a Linux ISDN HOWTO</a>. Michael's
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document would give some background information about ISDN and Linux and explain howto handle installations of i4l as well as capi. A <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6624:200402:lckloedklkonmleklapa" target="_top">detailed table of contents</a> was posted to the discuss list.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Steve Peace proposed to document the procedure for installing and configuring qmail-scanner and ClamAV virus scanner software as a HOWTO for TLDP. A draft version is
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<a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6633:200402:knaceklpnohmfaichkcf" target="_top">available for comment</a>.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="updated-docs"></a>3. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/" target="_top">Hardware HOWTO</a>, by Steven Pritchard, has finally been updated after a long period of inactivity.
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Version 3.2.2 contains information on the Athlon64 CPUs; the video card section has been updated; notes are added for the IDE RAID 3ware 8000-series cards; there is more info about SATA (serial ATA
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or disk controllers in plain English) and a configuration update for Western Digital drives.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Jorge Godoy, David Merrill, Mark Komarinski and Emma Jane Hogbin help you to better help us with v4.1 of the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/"
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target="_top">LDP Author Guide</a>. This version has updates on the license recommendations for docs that you submit to TLDP.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Revision 1.1 of Lars Strand's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Mobile-IPv6-HOWTO/" target="_top">Mobile-IPv6-HOWTO</a> comes with information on "Traveling through several
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foreign LAN's" and "Returning home" and a few other minor document re-structuring changes.</span></li>
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<hr>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-world"></a>4. News in The LDP world</h1>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="news-item1"></a>4.1. ISBN numbers for TLDP documents</h2>
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<p>Machtelt Garrels posted the <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6625:200402:glmdkngljdhkobgohaja" target="_top">procedure for obtaining an ISBN</a> number for a document of hers in
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Belgium. She hopes this will add to TLDP credentials give it a more serious look.</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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