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<h1 class="title"><a name="AEN2"></a>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</h1>
<b>Issue Number :</b> 36<br>
<b>Publication Date :</b> 2005-10-05<br>
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<dt>1. <a href="#tldp-world-news">News in The LDP world</a></dt>
<dt>2. <a href="#updated-docs">Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</a></dt>
<dt>3. <a href="#tldp-mirrors">Mirror information update</a></dt>
<dt>4. <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">Incorrect LDP bundles<br></span>
<p><span class="rss:item">If you were trying to download the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Linux-HOWTOs-20051005.tar.bz2" target="_top">Linux-HOWTOs-20051005.tar.bz2</a> or one
of the other archives and found that the size of the archive was large, it was an error in our archive creation scripts that has been fixed. All the document bundles are available from <a href=
"http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto" target="_top">http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto</a>.</span></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"><a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/" target="_top">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a> by AJ Lewis is now at v0.17. The updated document added a FAQ entry for max
size of LVs in LVM2; Did some cleanup of "Recover physical volume metadata" section and updated the contact e-mail address.</span></li>
<li><span class="rss:item">Werner Heuser's <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Mobile-Guide/html/index.html" target="_top">Linux on the Road</a> (Linux with Laptops, Notebooks, PDAs, Mobile Phones and
Other Portable Devices) known as the Mobile-Guide is now at Version 3.17.1. A technical and a language review have been achieved. Numerous bugs have been fixed and many URLs have been
updated.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-mirrors"></a>3. Mirror information update</h1>
<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://ldp.cict.fr/" target="_top">http://ldp.cict.fr/</a> maintained by baque@cict.fr in Toulouse, France and updated daily.</span></li>
<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://tldp.freemirror.de/" target="_top">http://tldp.freemirror.de/</a> maintained by Christian Reder on a dedicated dual Xeon server with traffic flatrate. The
server is located in Germany and updates are done nightly at 02:00 CET.</span></li>
<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.slugphils.homelinux.org/" target="_top">http://ldp.slugphils.homelinux.org/</a> in Quezon City, the Philippines is now update daily.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-contribute"></a>4. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</h1>
<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
help TLDP, consider joining our low volume discussion mailing list <tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org">discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</a>&gt;</tt>. You can also send
your suggestions to <tt class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:feedback@en.tldp.org">feedback@en.tldp.org</a>&gt;</tt>.</p>
<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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