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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> 33 & 34<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-08-25<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#new-proposed">New document proposals</a></dt>
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<dt>2. <a href="#updated-docs">Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</a></dt>
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<dt>3. <a href="#tldp-world-news">News in The LDP world</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#tldp-contribute">HOWTO contribute to The LDP</a></dt>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-proposed"></a>1. New document proposals</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Diego M. Vadell - UYR send a mail to the discuss list asking The LDP to consider the inclusion of his <a href="http://compiling.avsnet.com.ar/" target=
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"_top">Compiling-HOWTO</a> in The LDP collection. This howto wants to answer the question "How to compile", and also give an lightweight explanation of how does an ELF binary works, how does the
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shared libraries are found and who are the actors of the compiling process, in order to give a system administrator the tools and knowledge to troubleshoot compiling and general library problems.
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Comments on his HOWTO are welcome.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Jose Maria Lopez's team at bgSEC wrote a fairly comprehensive <a href="http://www.bgsec.com/seguridad-fisica-como-1.0.html" target="_top">Physical Security HOWTO</a>
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(<a href="http://www.bgsec.com/files/seguridad-fisica-como-1.0.html.bz2" target="_top">Compressed with bzip2 for downloading</a>). The document would be included in the <a href="http://es.tldp.org/"
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target="_top">Spanish LDP collection</a> and Jose Maria Lopez would like to see the document translated into English and included with the English LDP collection. Please contact the team if you would
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like to help with the translation.</span></li>
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</ul>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="updated-docs"></a>2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">If every minute is important for you, the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html" target="_top">Coffee Making HOWTO</a> is just the thing. Steadily heading for 1.0,
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v0.90 introduces a name change and info on Coffee+LAMP, apart from other minor changes.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Svetoslav Slavtchev's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/" target="_top">XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO</a> has info about the Mandrake/Debian
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IsolateDevice for configuring the X server to be used by multiple local users.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Bin Nguyen sent in v0.65 of the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html" target="_top">Linux Filesystem Hierarchy</a>, in which he tells
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a bit more about himself and adds two new sections, a.o. one for providing feedback. Also by Binh: the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html" target="_top">Linux
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Dictionary</a>, v0.16.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">A.J. Lewis has additional info about the boot and root filesystems when using LVM. Apart from that, minor fixes and updates in v0.13 of the <a href=
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"http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/" target="_top">LVM HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Minor bug fixes in v1.4 of David Braun's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Disk-Encryption-HOWTO/" target="_top">Disk Encryption HOWTO</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">David S. Lawyer updated his <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Plug and Play HOWTO</a>. It now covers <tt class=
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"filename">/proc/isapnp</tt> and <span class="application">sysfs</span> in the 2.6 kernels. Some info about hot pluggable devices and USB has been added as well.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Minor corrections in the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/MP3-CD-Burning/" target="_top">Linux MP3 CD Burning mini-HOWTO</a> v1.11, submitted by Greg
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Wierzchowski.</span></li>
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<hr>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-world-news"></a>3. 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">Jason T. Hardy set up a <a href="http://download.uta.edu/mirror/LDP/" target="_top">TLDP Mirror in Texas, USA</a>, Cong Wu set one up that is reachable via <a href=
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"http://202.204.80.47" target="_top">the 202.204.80.47 address</a>, only for the students of the Beijing Institute of Technology in China, Chung-Yen Chang created <a href=
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"http://cle.linux.org.tw/LDP/" target="_top">a new Taiwan mirror site</a>.</span></p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-contribute"></a>4. 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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