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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> 26<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-06-30<br>
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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-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">Gareth Anderson submitted the <a href="http://www.karakas-online.de/gnu-linux-tools-summary/" target="_top">GNU/Linux tools summary</a>, which is an attempt at listing
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common tools available on a GNU/Linux based system.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Stein Gjoen believes his <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:9144:200406:hgbphkommepbpkpkgdin" target="_top">HOWTO generator</a> is now ready for review. It is
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meant as a tool for TLDP authors who do not want to learn the DocBook markup but just want to submit content.</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">Venkat Ramana Enaganti had a problem with automatic creation of home-directories when creating LDAP accounts. He documents his solution in this <a href=
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"http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/intraperson/Autodir-HOWTO.html?download" target="_top">Autodir HOWTO</a> and waits for your comments.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Greg Porter inherited some old HP servers and wanted to run Linux on them. The process of installing Linux, however, required a firmware upgrade, which caused him some
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trouble. So he wrote a document discussing the <a href="http://www.porterdavis.org/computing/hp_boot/" target="_top">Hewlett Packard Unix Server Firmware and the HP Boot Sequence</a>, which he thinks
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will make a fine companion for the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HP-HOWTO/index.html" target="_top">HP HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Ray Benjamin wrote a <a href="http://www.raybenjamin.com/linux-help-how-to/index.html" target="_top">Getting Linux Help HOWTO</a> and welcomes your comments.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Tor Slettnes is documenting his setup for spam filtering on incoming mail using a combination of Exim, Exiscan, Spamassassin and Greylistd, but <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:msp:7516:200406:makpkgdefnipepahpgob" target="_top">realized that theory can be split from practice</a> to make his document more useful for general application and
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inclusion into TLDP.</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">Miroslav Skoric added info about a couple of his tutorials in the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html" target="_top">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</a>, the <a href=
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"http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html" target="_top">LILO mini-HOWTO</a> and the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html" target="_top">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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</ul>
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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">Outdated Cable modem HOWTO<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Jess Portnoy has some additions and updates for the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/index.html" target="_top">Cable Modem HOWTO</a> but can not contact the
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author, Vladimir Vuksan. He agreed to take over the HOWTO if the original author can not be contacted within a reasonable period of time, and if the license allows for this. TLDP is currently
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checking things out.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Bash guide available in print<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Fultus books makes the <a href="http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html" target="_top">Bash Guide for Beginners</a> available in <a href=
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"http://store.fultus.com/product_info.php?products_id=66" target="_top">print on demand</a>, while leaving Machtelt Garrels, the author, and TLDP the rights to publish it on-line.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">HOWTO: Presentations with linux<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://xtrinsic.com/" target="_top">Emma Jane Hogbin</a> recently talked about <a href="http://xtrinsic.com/newtlug/040622/" target="_top">HOWTO like
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Presentations</a>. The purpose of the talk was to help people with their own presentations. The slides of the talk address both the preparation for and the presentation of the topic. There are a few
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screen shots of some presentation software but no details.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Parallel Processing HOWTO<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Hank Dietz indicated that he would be updating the <a href="http://aggregate.org/PPLINUX/" target="_top">Parallel Processing HOWTO</a> and mutate it into a guide.</span></p>
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<hr>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-contribute"></a>5. 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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