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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> 11<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-03-17<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="#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">Mirroring TLDP</a></dt>
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<dt>3.2. <a href="#news-item2">Spotlight on TLDP</a></dt>
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<dt>3.3. <a href="#news-item3">TLDP Tools Page</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-released"></a>1. New documents @ TLDP</h1>
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<p>Niko Sauer finished the procedures for submitting and revising his <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/" target="_top">USB Flash Memory HOWTO</a>. It describes both VFAT and ext2
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formatting of the devices and also has notes on how to support them with a 2.6 kernel. Nico is the practical sort of person: he includes a section about making the memory sticks accessible to users
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and one about maintenance. You can try it out immediately on your <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/11/139207&mode=thread&tid=159&tid=186" target="_top">Swiss army
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knife</a>!</p>
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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">Claudio Cattazzo from the <a href="http://it.tldp.org" target="_top">ILDP</a> was so kind as to announce the translations into Italian of the following
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documents:<br></span>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-Compile-HOWTO/index.html" target="_top">The Apache-Compile-HOWTO</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-Install/index.html" target="_top">The DocBook-Install HOWTO</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO/index.html" target="_top">DocBook XML/SGML Processing Using OpenJade</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/index.html" target="_top">The Linux+IPv6-HOWTO</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html" target="_top">The NIS HOWTO</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/index.html" target="_top">The Program-Library-HOWTO</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html" target="_top">The Quota HOWTO</a></span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO/index.html" target="_top">The Security HOWTO</a></span></li>
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<p>A big Thank You goes to Michele Ferritto, Giuseppe Briotti, Beatrice Torracca, Daniele Masini, Fabio Zanotti, Riccardo Vianello, Alessio Rolleri and Elisabetta Galli for translating and reviewing
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these documents.</p>
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</li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Ari Makela updated the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Finnish-HOWTO/" target="_top">Finnish HOWTO</a>. Version 2.0.23 contains instructions for adapting Debian and some
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minor changes.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Text Terminal HOWTO</a> has been around for quite some time, but it is still useful <em>and</em>
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maintained, even though it discusses rather archaic hardware. New in v1.35: info on the Wyse 60 emulator.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Ralf Hölzer's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/" target="_top">Cryptoloop HOWTO</a> v1.2 has a better comparison between Cryptoloop encryption and
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Loop-AES encryption of a partition, and more explanations on reasons to use either one or the other. Ralf also announces the deprecation of Cryptoloop in the 2.6 kernels, where it will be replaced by
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dm-crypt. While the code for dm-crypt is cleaner, it is still under development and thus far, no user-space tools are available.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Machtelt Garrels got some more input from readers and decided it's time to ask publication of v1.12 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html" target=
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"_top">Introduction to Linux</a> guide. This version includes notes on running gnome applications in KDE and vv., A new section on signals and stopping/re-nicing processes. The Xcdroast pic is
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deleted and KAudioCreator has been added.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Mendel Cooper has an update ready for the <a href="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html" target="_top">Advanced Bash Scripting Guide</a>, another work that keeps on
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growing. This revision contains extra entries on different commands, documentation links, further comments in the examples and stylistic changes. Mendel maintains a full length <a href=
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"http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/Change.log" target="_top">ChangeLog</a> too.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The v1p17 version of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NC-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Linux NetStation HOWTO</a>. Kris Buytaert fixed some links in the document and would
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like to thank David Gilles for pointing out the mistakes.</span></li>
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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. Mirroring TLDP</h2>
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<p>The <a href="http://tldp.org/mirrors.html" target="_top">TLDP mirror page</a> is now up to date. After a long period of blocking, Jens Hardings was the first to activate a <a href=
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"http://mirrors.csol.org/LDP/" target="_top">new mirror in Chile</a>.</p>
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<p>We could do with some extra mirrors, for instance in Costa Rica, Croatia, French Guiana, Indonesia, Macau, Pakistan, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russia and Ukraine, where we have none for the moment (There
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is a <a href="http://tille.soti.org/images/tldp-world.jpg" target="_top">cool world map</a> of the TLDP mirrors). And we could certainly do with some extra mirrors in China. Candidates, anyone?
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Contact us through the <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:feedback@en.tldp.org">feedback@en.tldp.org</a>></tt> address!</p>
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<p>Tille <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6820:200403:ceejnklaecengajdijnf" target="_top">posted a summary</a> of the update frequency of the mirrors and plans for weeding out the
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out-of-date ones.</p>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="news-item2"></a>3.2. Spotlight on TLDP</h2>
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<p>We've certainly know worse times as far as advertisement is concerned:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><span class="rss:item">LinuxJournal features a 2-page <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7433" target="_top">article about TLDP history</a> entitled <span class="QUOTE">"Inside
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TLDP, a behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Linux Documentation Project"</span>, which has been partly published before in TLDP WN issues <a href="http://tldp.org/ldpwn/20030617.html"
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target="_top">9/2003</a> and <a href="http://tldp.org/ldpwn/20030701.html" target="_top">10/2003</a>. The article contains explanations on the name change from LinuxDoc to TLDP and completes the
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history from the point on where it stopped in our last publication of the matter.</span></li>
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<h2 class="sect2"><a name="news-item3"></a>3.3. TLDP Tools Page</h2>
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<p>Saqib Ali's popular tools for The LDP can be accessed directly from <a href="http://tools.tldp.org/" target="_top">http://tools.tldp.org</a>. Saqib's Online DocBook XML Validator / Transformer is
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also linked from there.</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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