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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> 23 & 24<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-06-09/16<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#new-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">News in The LDP world</a></dt>
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<dt>5. <a href="#tldp-discussions">Discussions on The LDP lists</a></dt>
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<dt>6. <a href="#tldp-contribute">HOWTO contribute to The LDP</a></dt>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-review"></a>1. Documents submitted for review</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The language review of the Linux Daemon HOWTO is completed. You can have a <a href=
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"http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linux-Daemon-HOWTO.sgml?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup" target="_top">preview in our CVS</a>. Thanks to S. Keeling, who also
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completed the <a href="http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/howto/docbook/Beowulf-HOWTO.xml?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup" target="_top">Beowulf HOWTO</a> language review and the
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<a href="http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/howto/docbook/Win%2bBSD%2bLinux-Install-HOWTO.xml?rev=1.15&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup" target="_top">Win+BSD+Linux-Install
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HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">After some discussion, Teus Benschop included input and remarks from the discuss mailinglist in his <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:9115:200406:obdnpahpamnbgbknfjke" target="_top">Bible Translation Software on Linux Using Windows Emulators HOWTO</a>. This does not mean that TLDP is getting
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religious: this HOWTO purely discusses the technical aspects of the software. Teus also explains why his document is, after all, not conceived as a general translation HOWTO, using the Bible as a
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practical example.</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">S. Keeling came up with the idea of a <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7430:200406:nmcomociibbmccbkjhic" target="_top">Heavy Mail User HOWTO</a>, which would
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discuss high E-mail load from the user's point of view, dealing with the problems caused by being subscribed on multiple mailinglists, having low bandwidth and an under-powered processing system. The
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author awaits your comments on the <a href="http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/Heavy-MailUser-HOWTO.xml" target="_top">provisional XML source</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Jesse Long proposed to write a <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7382:200406:lccmcephmpahjfjkicec" target="_top">Bootsplash HOWTO</a>. Bootsplash enables you
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to configure your backgrounds for your virtual consoles, using the Linux Kernel's frame buffer facilities. V. Alex Brennen <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7383:200406:apmkoaikdifbedjklddi" target="_top">was of the opinion</a> that a Framebuffer and BootSplash HOWTO would be a good addition to The LDP collection
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and pointed us to the <a href="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036" target="_top">Gentoo Forums: Framebuffer and BootSplash HOWTO</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">On demand of Gerardo Arnaez, the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Wireless-Link-sys-WPC11/" target="_top">Link-sys WPC11 Mini-HOWTO</a> is obsoleted.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Artemiy Pavlov skipped a couple of official releases and published v1.5 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SquashFS-HOWTO/" target="_top">SquashFS HOWTO</a>. This
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version has improved descriptions, instructions for the 2.6 kernels and lots of comparisons between SquashFS 1.x and 2.x.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/" target="_top">LVM HOWTO</a> by AJ Lewis, describing Linux' Logical Volume Manager, has updated FAQ entries in
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v.0.12.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Jakob Østergaard and Emilio Bueso are co-authoring the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Software RAID HOWTO</a>. New in v1.1:
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instructions on getting and installing the RAID tools, GRUB setup to boot from a RAID 1 and logical volume management on a RAID configuration.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Machtelt Garrels sent in an updated version of the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/" target="_top">Bash Guide for Beginners</a>. v1.2 of the
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document has an added index and more markup in screen sections.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-world-news"></a>4. News in The LDP world</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">New mirrors<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">It's amazing how many people want a local copy of the LDP collection. These are the new mirrors added last week:</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.opensourcemirrors.org" target="_top">http://ldp.opensourcemirrors.org</a>: set up by John Ellis in Austin, Texas, USA.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://mirror.narfum.org/LDP/" target="_top">http://mirror.narfum.org/LDP/</a>: by Karel Bemelmans in The Netherlands.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://www.signal42.com/LDP/" target="_top">http://www.signal42.com/LDP/</a>: by Paul Brown in San Jose, California, USA.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://www.linuxpowered.com/LDP/" target="_top">http://www.linuxpowered.com/LDP/</a>: by Vidyut Luther in Dallas, Texas, USA.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://cfe.homeunix.org/ldp/" target="_top">http://cfe.homeunix.org/ldp/</a>: by Ernesto Celis in Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Libre Software Meeting 2004<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">TLDP members Emma Jane Hogbin from Canada, Guylhem Aznar from France and Machtelt Garrels from Belgium will attend the <a href="http://www.libresoftwaremeeting.org" target=
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"_top">Libre Software Meeting 2004</a> in Bordeaux, France from the 6th to the 10th of July.</span></p>
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<p>Meet them and many other Open developers, techies and supporters at this annual conference that will be held for the 5th time. This year's program features among many other topics the first open
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content management systems meeting, FREE (Free Resources for Education in Europe), high-level programming languages for application development, accessibility and a graphics design contest.</p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-discussions"></a>5. Discussions on The LDP lists</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">LDP Manifesto<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Christopher Priest was trying to <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7436:200406:cnicoapgfafgabnfphic" target="_top">understand the purpose of TLDP</a>. David
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Lawyer <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7442:200406:claiepedajakajhoajgg" target="_top">explained</a> the original intention and the status.</span></p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-contribute"></a>6. HOWTO contribute to The LDP</h1>
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<p><a href="http://www.tldp.org/" target="_top">The Linux Documentation Project</a> (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to
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help TLDP, consider joining <tt class="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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