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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> 14 & 15<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2005-04-13<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#tldp-world-news">News in The LDP world</a></dt>
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<dt>2. <a href="#tldp-discussions">Discussions on The LDP lists</a></dt>
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<dt>3. <a href="#new-review">Documents submitted for review</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#new-proposed">New document proposals</a></dt>
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<dt>5. <a href="#updated-docs">Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</a></dt>
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<dt>6. <a href="#tldp-mirrors">Mirror information update</a></dt>
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<dt>7. <a href="#tldp-contribute">The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</a></dt>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-world-news"></a>1. News in The LDP world</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">TLDP documents RPM for Fedora?<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Rahul Sundaram indicated that he is planning to package The LDP docs for Fedora Extras.</span></p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-discussions"></a>2. Discussions on The LDP lists</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Docbook templates?<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Jaqui Greenlees was wondering where he can find the template file for the HOWTOs. Trevor Harmon replied pointing him to <a href=
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"http://tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/templates-book.html" target="_top">Links in the author guide</a> to the templates.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">LDP functioning<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Rodolfo J. Paiz said, with a <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:sss:9237:200504:bjbgnonlmmobjojdkkop" target="_top">small hint of sadness</a>, that he will shortly
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be un-subscribing from the LDP lists. In the roughly 10 months he has been there, he has not found the time to make a more significant contribution (for several reasons) and believed that it is best
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that he focuses his efforts elsewhere. People went on to discuss what could be done to address his concerns and the topic of subject specialists was brought up again, upon which David Lawyer said,
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<span class="QUOTE">"I just want to remind people that my proposal for subject specialists was not just for people to list themselves as specialists, but for them to assume responsibility for all the
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docs in their field of specialty. This responsibility would begin with the specialist reviewing all the docs in this subject and possibly suggesting mergers or splits. Also, if some (or even all) of
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the docs are out-of-date, the subject specialist would need to either get the existing authors to redo them or (in many cases) recruit new authors. One can use the Internet for recruiting: Find
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people who discuss the topic on various mailing lists (and who know what they are writing about), contact local Linux User Groups, etc. So, the subject specialist is both a reviewer, coordinator
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(merge or split), and recruiter. It's a lot of work. The categories (subjects) need to be selected so that there will be at least a few docs in that subject. Also, in some cases, the subject
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specialist may also be the author of a doc in that subject area."</span>.</span></p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-review"></a>3. Documents submitted for review</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Trevor Harmon submitted a <a href="http://doc.ece.uci.edu/~tharmon/files/TimeSys-Linux-Install-mini-HOWTO.html" target="_top">TimeSys Linux Install mini HOWTO</a> for
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review. The document is intended to be a quick-start guide for installing TimeSys Linux on a typical desktop workstation.</span></li>
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<hr>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-proposed"></a>4. New document proposals</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Jim Lieb proposed to write a Kernel Tunable Parameters HOWTO that would be a reference for all of the tuning parameters available in the kernel as of version 2.4.22 and
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2.6.11. He already had a few drafts in place. Rahul Sundaram said that the right place for such a dynamic document would probably be the kernel sources in the Documentation directory.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Rot Hopkins proposed to write a Mounting Windows partitions HOWTO. This document came about because he had a dual boot system with a Chinese version of Windows 2K, which
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had file names in both Chinese and Japanese, and these file names weren't displaying correctly. The document would talk about (1) umask - The true way in which it is used to calculate file/dir
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permissions (2) mount and fstab - various options required for mounting a vfat partition and (3) timestamp - Thrown in for those who are interested.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="updated-docs"></a>5. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Miroslav "Misko" Skoric updated the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html" target="_top">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</a>, <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html"
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target="_top">LILO mini-HOWTO</a> and <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html" target="_top">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</a> documents. They are now at versions v1.33, v3.23 and v2.22
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respectively.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Avi Alkalay, Donovan Rebbechi and Hal Burgiss's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/" target="_top">Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux</a> has been updated to v2005-03-31.
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Avi's changes for this version has improved desktop configuration guidelines for higher resolution screens, and a better layout for authors.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-mirrors"></a>6. Mirror information update</h1>
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<p>The following are the latest additions to our <a href="http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html" target="_top">list of mirrors</a>:</p>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://www.nymphomatic.org/mirror/LDP/" target="_top">http://www.nymphomatic.org/mirror/LDP/</a> maintained by Marko Crnic in Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska) and
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updated daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://www.linwiz.com/ldp/" target="_top">http://www.linwiz.com/ldp/</a> maintained by Roland Venter in Auckland, NZ and updated daily as against twice a week
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before.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://tldp.attrition.jp" target="_top">http://tldp.attrition.jp</a> maintained by ryan@attrition.jp in Tokyo, Japan and updated daily. This is the first official
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mirror in Japan.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://opensourcemirrors.org/tldp" target="_top">http://opensourcemirrors.org/tldp</a> maintained by osm@hostwaydcs.com in Austin, TX, USA and updated daily at
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2am.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://tldp.corporacionlinux.cl" target="_top">http://tldp.corporacionlinux.cl</a> maintained by Rodrigo Henriquez M. in Santiago, Chile and updated
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daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://www.linux.org.py/LDP/" target="_top">http://www.linux.org.py/LDP/</a> maintained by Oliver (mirror@linux.org.py) in Paraguay and updated daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.mirrorplus.org" target="_top">http://ldp.mirrorplus.org</a> maintained by admin@mirrorplus.org of mirrorplus.org in Munich, Germany and updated
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daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://debian.phys.hacettepe.edu.tr/LDP" target="_top">http://debian.phys.hacettepe.edu.tr/LDP</a> maintained by Mustafa Mithat Bayramgil in Ankara (Hacettepe
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University Physics Eng. Dept.), Turkey and updated 6 times a day.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://mirror.pacific.net.au/ldp/" target="_top">http://mirror.pacific.net.au/ldp/</a> maintained by mirror-team@pacific.net.au in Sydney, Australia and updated 3
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times daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.mirrors.asianbaptist.org/" target="_top">http://ldp.mirrors.asianbaptist.org/</a> maintained by Matthew Isam in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US. Updated
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daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://viveka.math.hr/LDP/" target="_top">http://viveka.math.hr/LDP/</a> the only mirror in Croatia, maintained by Vedran Sego in Zagreb, Croatia and updated daily
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(at 03:05 local time).</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.rospot.com/" target="_top">http://ldp.rospot.com/</a> maintained by Marius David in Timisoara, Romania and updated daily.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-contribute"></a>7. 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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"http://tldp.org/ldpwn" target="_top">http://tldp.org/ldpwn</a></p>
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