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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> 9 & 10<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2005-03-09<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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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="#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-discussions">Discussions on The LDP lists</a></dt>
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<dt>6. <a href="#tldp-contribute">The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</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">Gareth Anderson would like to include the GNU Linux Command Line Tools Summary document http://www.karakas-online.de/gnu-linux-tools-summary/introduction.html which he has
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been working on since more than two years, in The LDP collection.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Coert wrote a Secure Internet for Small Office / Home Office HOWTO. A draft version of the document is available at http://www.cybcon.com/~coert/linux/siso/index.html. The
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HOWTO describes how to bring up your own Firewall, Wireless Access Point and VPN Server on a single board computer. It currently uses the Geode SC1100 and Atheros WiFi NIC, but could easily be
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extended to include other hardware, drivers and services.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Zouhir Hafidi wrote a HOWTO about setting up Linux and Windows Terminal Services in Schools and would like to submit it to TLDP. A draft version of the document is
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available from http://math.univ-lille1.fr/~hafidi/terminal-services/ and your comments are most welcome.</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">lists@mjhall.org proposed to write a Computational Linguistics HOWTO. This HOWTO would briefly survey the major branches of contemporary computational linguistics and the
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major types of linguistics software, and then catalogue Linux software available in each category. An extensive bibliography and list of resources such as websites and mailing lists would also
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included. Some general advice would also be offered on system configuration for linguistics work. Martin Wheeler and Rahul Sundaram were excited about the idea.</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">Version 1.6 (Last updated 20050301 Edition) of Bash Guide for Beginners http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ by Machtelt Garrels has minor problems corrected,
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more keywords, and info about new Bash 3.0.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Version 1.17 (20050301 Edition) of Machtelt Garrels "Introduction to Linux, A Hands on Guide" http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/ has edits for lots of little details
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that were outdated, several notes, and some more info about new application has been added.</span></li>
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</ul>
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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">Mirrors<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">These are the latest additions to our <a href="http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html" target="_top">list of mirrors</a>:</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">http://ldp.mirror.nickstallman.net/ - hosted by Nick Stallman in Kingston, Massachusetts and updated daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">http://ldp.mirror1.wefixtech.co.uk/ - hosted by Tony Dodd in Ashburn, VA, USA and updated every other day.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">http://ldp.hosting-concepts.com - hosted by Peter in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and updated daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">http://ldp.cherryfive.com - hosted by Daniel Prinsloo in London, UK and updated weekly.</span></li>
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<p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Gerd Berget's report on The LDP<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Gerd Berget's report on The LDP is available for download from http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/rapport.pdf However, the document has not yet been translate to English.</span></p>
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<hr>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-discussions"></a>5. Discussions on The LDP lists</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Modifiability of documentation and software<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">In a discussion thread concerning modifiability of documentation and data, Rahul Sundaram commented that most people don't care about whether the source code is modifiable
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but that, that doesn't mean we say we don't care about Free or open source software. David Lawyer responded indicating that there is a difference between software and documents. David said
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<span class="QUOTE">"Software needs to be free since it's relatively hard to write it and much of it is reusable. But for documentation, the situation is a lot different. I've looked at a few of our
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old documents that are out-of-date and they mostly need to be entirely rewritten. This can be done even if the doc doesn't allow modification. Why? Because one uses the info in the obsolete doc plus
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information in other docs to write a new doc. Facts are not copyrighted."</span> David was in favour of modifiable documents, but not as strongly as Rahul was. An interesting discussion
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ensued.</span></p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-contribute"></a>6. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</h1>
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<p><a href="http://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> (a low volume discussion mailing list). You can also send
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your suggestions to <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, edited and published by Machtelt Garrels (Tille) and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag (Giri) with help from several other people. To receive this newsletter weekly in your
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mailbox, subscribe to the <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:news-subscribe@en.tldp.org">news-subscribe@en.tldp.org</a>></tt> mailing list. <a href="http://tldp.org/ldpwn" target="_top">Back
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issues</a> are available at http://tldp.org/ldpwn.</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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