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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> 44<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-11-03<br>
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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-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">Matt Barnes would like to start a Linux Documentation - Audio Video project. The project aims to convert The LDP documents to wave and mp3 format. The goal of this exercise
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is to show that it can be done, and that it should be done. The intent is to allow someone to download a media file into a media player and listen to the information rather than always having to read
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it and possibly stream them over the internet. Contact Matthew S Barnes (mbarnes at bfinity dot net) if you have more ideas.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">iSCSI-Linux HOWTO: iSCSI is becoming more popular, particularly on Linux. Ben Rockwood was bothered by the massive lack of documentation available and wrote his own, titled
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"A Quick Guide to iSCSI on Linux" (<a href="http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/iscsi/index.html" target="_top">http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/iscsi/index.html</a>). The document is currently
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considered as the manual for the iSCSI Enterprise Target project (http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/) and is on of the popular guides to iSCSI on the net. Ben intends to update the document and
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submit it to The LDP for inclusion as a HOWTO rather than maintain it on his own site as a paper.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Ben Rockwood noticed that the Benchmark HOWTO hasn't been updated since 1997. The unmaintained list shows a new maintainer for the doc, but an email to him got a failed
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response from the mail server. Ben is of the opinion that the document could be a bit more heavy on disk subsystems. Currently the document is geared towards general systems performance. Ben was
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wondering if he should start a new Disk-Benchmarking HOWTO and would like your input. Email benr@cuddletech.com</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">German SMIL tutorial on Linux: The Computing Center of the University of Kassel produced a SMIL introduction to Linux (around 4 hours of video, with subtitles in German and
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some accompanying figures). Andreas Matthias wrote in to offer this to The LDP for integration into The LDP but did not find any support for non-textual formats in. The (not yet sufficiently polished
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product) is at <a href="http://www.uni-kassel.de/hrz/anwendungen/matthias/unix-kurs/online" target="_top">http://www.uni-kassel.de/hrz/anwendungen/matthias/unix-kurs/online</a>. He was wondering if
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someone who understands German and has some talent in laying out descriptive graphics would help them to complete the project. Please contact matthias@hrz.uni-kassel.de if you would like to offer
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help.</span></li>
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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">Avi Alkalay's HOWTO for Managing Accurate Date and Time (The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TimePrecision-HOWTO/" target="_top">TimePrecision-HOWTO</a>) has been updated to
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v1.0.8. The new version has been translated to Hungarian. The section on why we need a precise clock and the section on chrony have been updated.</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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