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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> 37, 38, 39 & 40<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2005-11-02<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="#updated-docs">Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</a></dt>
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<dt>5. <a href="#tldp-mirrors">Mirror information update</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="tldp-world-news"></a>1. News in The LDP world</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Volunteer for the mirror checkup<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Machtelt Garrels (Tille) is looking for a volunteer to do the mirrors checkup. Things to do are:</span></p>
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<ul>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Check time-stamp on all mirrors (http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html), all URLs should have a timestamp.txt in the top-level directory.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Contact the maintainers of mirrors that are not up to date, ask if they plan to correct the situation.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Create a list of mirrors that can not be contacted at all, those will be removed from http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html</span></li>
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</ul>
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<p>Get in touch with Tille if you are interested.</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">LDP Manifesto "Overview" change<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">David Lawyer looked at what he had drafted in 2001 for the "Overview" part of the Manifesto and edited it a little to reflect the current situation <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9693:200510:claiepedajakajhoajgg" target="_top">http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9693:200510:claiepedajakajhoajgg</a>. The revised version is available for
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comment and David posted a version <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9761:200510:ngajkeenpiioblmendee" target=
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"_top">http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9761:200510:ngajkeenpiioblmendee</a> asking if discuss list is OK with it.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">AsciiDoc and DocBook<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Scot Stevenson started <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9709:200510:mjolkcjnjbginkhagjki" target=
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"_top">http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9709:200510:mjolkcjnjbginkhagjki</a> started a discussion on why the LDP should start supporting AsciiDoc as one of the acceptable formats. Since Scot
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talked about LinuxDoc, David Lawyer put down his thoughts on the issue and said that the LDP could revive LinuxDoc.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">LDP or TLDP<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">David Lawyer, while discussing the draft of the Introduction to the LDP Manifesto, said <span class="QUOTE">"we did change was our URL from linuxdoc.org to tldp.org. But the
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old URL still works (I just tried it). So I'm in favor of continuing to use LDP and to not object if people call us TLDP. LDP has a lot of name recognition in printed books. If you look at our doc,
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there's several times more mention of LDP than TLDP. So it's not too late to go back to LDP. LDP is also used a lot on our website along with TLDP"</span>. Several people <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:sss:9730:200510:pgfjjcaefnhkbdlhllan" target="_top">http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:sss:9730:200510:pgfjjcaefnhkbdlhllan</a> were in favour of using LDP and
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Guylhem P. Aznar said that tldp.org was choosen because ldp.org was not available.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Alex Nordstrom, the maintainer of the Documentation Workgroup of the Linux Society of Sweden, sent in a mail to the discuss list <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9700:200510:ddjlkhedkoddjdpcpnpi" target="_top">http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9700:200510:ddjlkhedkoddjdpcpnpi</a> outlining the process of translating
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a document from the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) for the Linux Society of Sweden and requested comments on the translation effort workflow.</span></li>
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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">Rohit Agarwal submitted a <a href="http://geocities.com/vickys_box/libdc1394howtoVer2.pdf" target="_top">How To for libdc1394</a>, the document discusses libdc1394 library
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that is used for IEEE1394 camera interfacing.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="updated-docs"></a>4. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Scot W. Stevenson's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Mock-Mainframe/" target="_top">Mock Mainframe Mini-HOWTO</a> at v1.2.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Werner Heuser's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO/" target="_top">Linux Infrared HOWTO</a>. In version 3.7 technical and a language review have been done.
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Numerous bugs have been fixed and many URLs have been updated. Some obsolete stuff has been removed. Some documentation about Linux/IrDA with kernel 2.6 has been added (but there is still work to
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do).</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Miroslav "Misko" Skoric sent in updates to the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html" target="_top">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</a> (v1.36), the <a href=
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"http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html" target="_top">LILO mini-HOWTO</a> (v3.26) and the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html" target="_top">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</a> (v2.25).</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Peter Bieringer's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/" target="_top">Linux IPv6 HOWTO</a> is now at v0.49. The new revision adds configuration hints for DHCPv6
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and has broken URL cleanups.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Avi Alkalay sent in his <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TimePrecision-HOWTO/" target="_top">Managing Accurate Date and Time HOWTO</a>. v2005-10-12 of the document moves the
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Brazil zic file out and has been updated.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Mendel Cooper's <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html" target="_top">Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</a> at v3.7 is a bugfix update and adds some minor
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material.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">David S. Lawyer's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html" target="_top">Howtos-with-LinuxDoc-mini-HOWTO</a> has been updated and is now at
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v0.05.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Rob van der Putten's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Leased-Line/" target="_top">Leased line Mini HOWTO</a> now at v2.3b7 has information about additional PPPD options and
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routing.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Charles Curley's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/" target="_top">Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO</a> is at v2.0. The new
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version has notes for Fedora Core 4. Notes for older versions of FC and Red Hat have been removed. There are changes in the writeup and scripts reflect using Knoppix instead of tomsrtbt. A few
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scripts have been changed so that long lines don't fall off the right side of printed pages.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-mirrors"></a>5. 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://ldp.nedmirror.nl/" target="_top">http://ldp.nedmirror.nl/</a> maintained by Wessel Sandkuyl in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and is hosted in a multi-homed
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datacentre just under Schiphol. The mirror is updated daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://tldp.hord.ru" target="_top">http://tldp.hord.ru</a> maintained by dmitri@gnu.org, knight@uportal.ru in Moscow, Russia and updated daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.hoxt.com/" target="_top">http://ldp.hoxt.com/</a> maintained by Son Nguyen in Tampa, FL, USA and update daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://howto.hellug.gr" target="_top">http://howto.hellug.gr</a> maintained by Apostolos (Greek HOWTOs maintainer) in Athens, Greece and updated daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://www.linuxshop.us/ldp/" target="_top">http://www.linuxshop.us/ldp/</a> maintained by Scott Braynard in NJ, USA and updated daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.linuxnetwork.com" target="_top">http://ldp.linuxnetwork.com</a> maintained by Jeremiah Tieman in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and updated twice every
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day.</span></li>
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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 our low volume discussion mailing list <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org">discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</a>></tt>. 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 news mailing list <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:news-subscribe@en.tldp.org">news-subscribe@en.tldp.org</a>></tt>. 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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