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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> 27<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-07-07<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="#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">Daniel Goldsmith proposed a <a href="http://homepage.eircom.net/~dangold/LILO-Multi-Distro-mini-HOWTO.xml" target="_top">LILO Multi Distro mini HOWTO</a> that discusses
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issues relating to LILO, multiple distributions and the 1024-cylinder problem. Sebastien FRANCOIS recommended merging documentations when they're related to a same subject and that another section be
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created in an existing HOWTO for what has to be added.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Tor Slettnes sent his <a href="http://slett.net/spam-filtering-for-mx/" target="_top">Spam Filtering for Mail Exchangers HOWTO</a> for review. The document discusses how to
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reject junk mail in incoming SMTP transactions.</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">Martijn Hinderdael devised a disk-less MP3 player (debian based) which is controlled through 15 buttons on the serial port. The circuitry is completely without chips but
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has some buttons and diodes. The software for operating the buttons is a very small C-program and a bash script that assigns the functions to each button. Martijn would like to hear your opinion
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about a Linux MP3 player with 15 buttons on serial port howto.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">David Horton recently had a difficult time finding any up-to-date self study books for the Linux Professional Institute 101 & 102 certification exams. It seems that
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everything was printed about 2000 or 2001 and the LPI exams were updated in 2003. He put together a skeleton of a self-study guide which is available in HTML and DocBook XML at: <a href=
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"http://www.happy-monkey.net/LPI/" target="_top">http://www.happy-monkey.net/LPI/</a>. Guru - also pointed us to <a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/edu/l-dw-linux-lpir21-i.html"
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target="_top">LPI certification 101 (release 2) exam prep, Part 1: Linux fundamentals</a> On IBM Developerworks Linux Section.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-contribute"></a>3. 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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