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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> 30<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-07-28<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#new-released">New documents @ The LDP</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-released"></a>1. New documents @ The LDP</h1>
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<p>The summer holidays (for some at least) are a very productive season:</p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://www.tldp.org/guides.html" target="_top">Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide</a> is now split up into two branches, one for the <a href=
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"http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.4/html/index.html" target="_top">2.4</a> and one for the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html" target="_top">2.6</a> kernels. Peter Jay Salzman,
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Ori Pomerantz and Michael Burian have put a lot of work into this, each covering a stable kernel branch starting from the 2.2 kernels.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Our colleagues over at <a href="http://es.tldp.org/" target="_top">http://es.tldp.org/</a> have published a document about Linux/MS Windows integration using OpenLDAP,
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Samba, CUPS and Python. It is entitled <a href="http://es.tldp.org/Tutoriales/doc-openldap-samba-cups-python/html/ldap+samba+cups+pykota.html" target="_top">Integración de redes con OpenLDAP,
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Samba, CUPS y PyKota</a>; other formats are available <a href="http://es.tldp.org/Tutoriales/doc-openldap-samba-cups-python/" target="_top">here</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The French have translated the Event HOWTO by Mark Komarinski into a document entitled <a href="http://www.traduc.org/docs/HOWTO/lecture/Event-HOWTO.html" target=
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"_top">Réaliser une présentation sur les logiciels libres</a>.</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">Trevor Thompson proposed to submit a <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:9179:200407:kcddneldichebnimjnak" target="_top">Kernel Compile HOWTO</a>; however, Emma
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Jane suggested to check with Kwan Lowe's <a href="http://cvs.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/howto/docbook/Kernel-Build-HOWTO/" target="_top">start for a Kernel Build HOWTO</a> documenting the 2.6 kernel
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build process.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Chadley Wilson would like to write a <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7743:200407:gobnkhhckbaodjmlhcjc" target="_top">10-page Linux
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introduction</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Pawel (McGiwer) Sadowski intends to write a HOWTO about installation modem SpeedTouch 330 USB on Fedora Core 2. He did not find any document on The LDP site discussing the
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same.</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">John Tapsell, Thomas Spellman and Matthias Grimm contributed to v.0.09 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Masquerading-Simple-HOWTO/" target="_top">Masquerading Made
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Simple HOWTO</a>. This document is a complement to the original <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/index.html" target="_top">Linux IP Masquerade HOWTO</a> by David A.
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Ranch.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Peter Jay Salzman published v1.3 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/" target="_top">Debian Jigdo HOWTO</a>, explaining how you can make your own Debian
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installation CDs or DVDs, now including info on how to make ISO images on MS Windows machines.</span></li>
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<hr>
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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">LQ Wiki to include TLDP docs<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Members of the LinuxQuestions Wiki have expressed <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?7:msp:10327:200407:dapncggfnodfolcejkmd" target="_top">their interest in including
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TLDP docs</a> into the <a href="http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/" target="_top">LQ Wiki</a>. Since many of our documents are published under the free licenses, this initiative can only be
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encouraged.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Mirror updates<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Richard Mitchell lets us know that his New Zealand mirrors will be available at <a href="http://ldp.yaksha.ath.cx:8001" target="_top">http://ldp.yaksha.ath.cx:8001</a> and
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<a href="http://yaksha.ath.cx:8000/ldp/" target="_top">http://yaksha.ath.cx:8000/ldp/</a> instead of at http://www.yaksha.co.nz/ldp as previously announced.</span></p>
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<p>Sadit Sathianpaisarn is hosting the second official Thai mirror located in Bangkok at <a href="http://pubnet.ngi.nectec.or.th/LDP" target="_top">http://pubnet.ngi.nectec.or.th/LDP</a>, updated
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daily, courtesy of NECTEC.</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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