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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> 34<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2005-09-21<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#tldp-discussions">Discussions on The LDP lists</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-mirrors">Mirror information update</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#tldp-contribute">The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</a></dt>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-discussions"></a>1. Discussions on The LDP lists</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">TLDP documents in Linux distros<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Machtelt Garrels <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9659:200509:ekigohadccfepdpebdjg" target="_top">wanted to know</a> which distributions included the LDP
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documents and called for volunteers to contact distributions that don't include them and follow it up with a discussion. Greg Ferguson indicated that he talked to a RedHat individual who worked on
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the docs package and was told that it took a fair bit of work to package the HOWTOs in a reasonably sane way and they had limited space on CD. The RedHat 7.3 errata said that <span class=
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"QUOTE">"Several complaints were received concerning the correctness of the LDP documentation as well as the difference in procedures between the LDP documentation and the official Red Hat Linux
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documentation. Thus, it was decided to no longer provide the LDP documentation on the Documentation CD"</span></span></p>
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<p>Among the popular Linux distributions, Debian, SUSE, Slackware and Ubuntu seem to include the LDP document collection.</p>
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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">Adrian Offerman sent in a update to his <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/MMBase-Inst-HOWTO/" target="_top">MMBase-Inst-HOWTO</a>. The document, now at 1.0 after the LDP
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review procedures describes the installation of the MMBase content management system on a Red Hat Linux distribution, using the Tomcat application server, and integrating it with MySQL and
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Apache.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-mirrors"></a>3. 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://linux.com.hk/PenguinWeb/mirrors/LDP/" target="_top">http://linux.com.hk/PenguinWeb/mirrors/LDP/</a> maintained by Ralph Lam in Hong Kong and update
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daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://www.active.co.il/ldp/" target="_top">http://www.active.co.il/ldp/</a> maintained by Rami Addady and Gonen Radi of Activetech Ltd. The mirror server is
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collocated in big local ISP, and the server in connected to Israel Internet backbone</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.linkmost.com" target="_top">http://ldp.linkmost.com</a> maintained by Maple in Tokyo, Japan and updated daily.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-contribute"></a>4. 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. Back issues are available at <a href=
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"http://tldp.org/ldpwn" target="_top">http://tldp.org/ldpwn</a></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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