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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> 13<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-03-31<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#new-for-review">Documents submitted for review</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>5. <a href="#discussions">Discussions on TLDP lists</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-for-review"></a>1. Documents submitted for review</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Gerardo Arnaez, Walt Pennington and Werner Heuser are the authors of the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Medicine-HOWTO/index.html" target="_top">Medicine
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HOWTO</a>. And no, this does not tell you where to purchase the cheapest <insert your favorite spam ad for medicine here > ;-) Rather, it is a collection of links to important Linux and Open
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Source sites for doctors and other medical personnel. The HOWTO also discusses the recording, storage, retrieval, exchange and display of medical data, has pointers to mailinglists, information for
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veterinarians and discussions of various applications, including medical records and imaging applications.</span></li>
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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">Haowen Zhang browsed our collection and other resources looking for information about the internals of System V Init. Because he couldn't find what he was looking for, he
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asked whether it would be useful to have a <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6856:200403:olndaoabiighcgnbkaaj" target="_top">System V Init HOWTO</a>. There has not been a substantial
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proposal for the content yet, so if you think this might be interesting, join us on the discuss mailinglist <tt class="email"><<a href=
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"mailto:discuss@en.tldp.org">discuss@en.tldp.org</a>></tt>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Even though Eric Raymond posted an <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/let-java-go.html" target="_top">open letter to Sun, arguing in favour of the release of the
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Java source code</a>, Scott McNealy <a href="http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/25400-1.html" target="_top">said that this won't happen any time soon</a>. Jon Fox, who was working on an Enterprise
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Java document, <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6881:200403:nohedkmjcfkofpfedgpb" target="_top">has moral objections</a> after hearing about this and fears he's wasting time and energy
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documenting a non-free platform. He therefore stops working on the Enterprise Java document.</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">Floris Lambrechts sent in v0.8 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Authentication-HOWTO/" target="_top">User Authentication HOWTO</a>. This HOWTO explains how user
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and group information is stored and used with PAM, the Pluggable Authentication Modules. The update contains language changes and small bug fixes.</span></li>
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<td width="25" align="center" valign="top"><img src="../images/note.gif" hspace="5" alt="Note"></td>
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<th align="left" valign="center"><b>Choose a meaningful subject!</b></th>
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<p>Dear Authors and other users of the submission mailinglist,</p>
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<p>As you may have notices, the submission mailinglist is an open list and thus a target for spammers. For your submissions to stand out, choose a sensible, meaningful subject when posting updates.
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Include the name of your HOWTO, Guide or FAQ in the subject. Otherwise it might pass unnoticed!</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-world"></a>4. News in The LDP world</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Linux Brochure Project to join TLDP<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Barbara Irwin of the Linux Brochure Project (LBP) indicated that <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6846:200403:ejilbecjpnmoeooninhc" target="_top"> Guylhem
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Aznar invited LBP</a> to join the LDP</span></p>
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<p>Initially, the project developed as a way for printing a flyer for the Victoria Linux User Group. LBP is a registered project at <a href="http://lbproject.sourceforge.net/" target=
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"_top">SourceForge</a>. <a href="http://lbproject.sourceforge.net/examples.html" target="_top">Various examples</a> for US Letter and A4 paper sizes are available.</p>
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<p>Greg Ferguson had questions about what Guylhem had in mind and wanted to know the <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6851:200403:ifhbolfhjihbhnkaanhb" target="_top">areas of
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cooperation</a> between the two projects, upon which Barbara explained that the LBP will become a part of TLDP and that LDP can act as a repository for completed/processed brochures.</p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Errata: Interview with Fred Stutzman<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Because of problems with the conversion of the TLDP Weekly News source XML to RSS feed, the <a href="http://tldp.org/ldpwn/20040324.xml#interview" target="_top">interview
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with Fred Stutzman</a> last week was not spread through our RSS feed.</span></p>
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<p>If you've missed this or any other interview, discussion topic or news item, don't despair. You can always <a href="http://tldp.org/ldpwn/" target="_top">catch up on TLDP Weekly News issues</a>
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and the latest versions by browsing through our archives.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="discussions"></a>5. Discussions on TLDP lists</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Second TLDP CD-ROM distro<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Bradley Glonka reminded us of the fact that his offer to bring out a TLDP CD-ROM still stands. He proposed to publish on demand through <a href="http://linuxcentral.com"
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target="_top">LinuxCentral</a>, who are also hosting a <a href="http://linuxcentral.com/linux/LDP/" target="_top">TLDP mirror</a>, and donate part of the revenue to TLDP. However, Greg argued that
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<a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6873:200403:fpppcopimljgjpbfaoin" target="_top">there is no need for a second CD provider</a> and advises that TLDP sticks to the <a href=
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"http://www.embeddedlogic.com/ELSweb/LDPCD_info.html" target="_top">CD offered by Embedded Logic Systems</a>.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">De gustibus et coloribus non disputandum<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">The Romans knew it already 2000 years ago: don't discuss colour nor taste. The discussion about a possible new style for TLDP continues. While author input about their
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favorite colours is being waved away with the remark that <span class="QUOTE">"DocBook enables authors to concentrate on content, they should not worry about formatting and display"</span>, some are
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concerned about how their documents will look, especially if an <span class="QUOTE">"average"</span> colour is chosen. As <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6878:200403:apjpihhbjhmiefimbdpl" target="_top">David Horton suggests</a>, the only way out of this thread might well be to concentrate on how a document look
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in plain black-and-white.</span></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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