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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> 45 & 46<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-11-17<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-discussions">Discussions on The LDP lists</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">Noel Llopis wrote a mini-HOWTO on improving fonts on Mandrake (but his ideas are general and work on any distribution with KDE). The document is up for review at <a href=
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"http://convexhull.com/mandrake_fonts.html" target="_top">http://convexhull.com/mandrake_fonts.html</a> and would be submitted to the LDP for inclusion in its collection.</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">David S. Lawyer sent in updates to the documents that he maintains:</span>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Modem-HOWTO</a> v0.34 has information on distinctive ring workaround where you want the modem to answer
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phone calls only for certain types of rings like long, short, long, short, etc.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The v1.11 of <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Plug-and-Play-HOWTO</a> has a new sub-section on LPC bus in the "How do I Find Devices
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and How Are They Configured?" section.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">v2.23 of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Serial HOWTO</a> has information on serial ports on motherboard likely ISA or LPC and also some
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quick help added.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">v.1.0.6 of Peter Jay Salzman's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Gamers-HOWTO/" target="_top">Linux Gamer's HOWTO</a> has new information on OpenAL and libraries. Few
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typos have been fixed and the document has also been translated into Hungarian.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Mendel Cooper did a few minor updates to his <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/" target="_top">Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</a> and released v3.1.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Artemiy I. Pavlov's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SquashFS-HOWTO/" target="_top">SquashFS HOWTO</a> v1.6 has been changed to catch-up with the SquashFS release 2.0. There
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are few minor text corrections as well.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Ram Samudrala submitted v1.31 of his <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Cluster-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Linux Cluster HOWTO</a>. The document discusses setting up
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high-performance Linux computing clusters.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The v2.5 of Andries Brouwer's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Large Disk HOWTO</a> has more information on disk geometry and the 1024
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cylinder and other limits for disks.</span></li>
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<hr>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-discussions"></a>3. Discussions on The LDP lists</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The LDP review process<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">A lot of people had complaints that The LDP's review processes were getting in the way of new documents making their way into the collection. People suggested watermarking
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documents that have been reviewed (or the opposite) and distinguishing between the documents that have been through the review process and the documents that have not been.</span></p>
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<hr>
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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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