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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> 01<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2006-03-21<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">Debian acknowledges GFDL<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Debian announced last week that the GNU Free Documentation License are <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060316" target="_top">considered free</a> if they do not
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contain any invariant sections. This is good news for the LDP, as our documents can now be included into the Debian and Debian-based distributions. Note that this does not automatically mean that the
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entire LDP collection will be included. Authors who want their documents to be included in the Debian documentation should check their licenses.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">New Weekly News Editor<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">We are happy to announce that Hans Bol has volunteered to take over the weekly news editing job from Y Giridhar Appaji Nag. Hans has been following the mailing-lists for
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quite some time and found editing our newsletter an ideal opportunity to help.</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">Feedback wanted on Windows-to-Linux HOWTO:<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Omari Norman is willing to upgrade the DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO. Alex Nordstrom had some <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9863:200601:nhfemjnhhhkbikpjliid"
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target="_top">advice</a>. For instance that people first start to use free software that is available on both platforms. When people are more convenient with the software the jump into the Linux
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world is not that big.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">TLDP author profiles - change of address:<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Greg Ferguson let us know that the address has changed for the TLDP Author Profiles database. It now can be found at : <a href="http://avalonix.co.uk/tldp/" target=
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"_top">http://avalonix.co.uk/tldp/</a></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">Fabio Busatto's <a href="http://libkeepalive.sourceforge.net/docs/TCP-Keepalive-HOWTO.xml" target="_top">TCP Keepalive HOWTO</a>. This document describes the TCP keepalive
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implementation in the Linux kernel, introducing main general concepts and pointing both to system configuration and software development.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">A reviewer is searched for to take a look at the following HOWTO: Subversion, SSH, TortoiseSVN Windows Client With Fedora Core 4 Linux HOWTO. Please contact
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editors@en.tldp.org</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Daniel Coletti wrote an article on <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9890:200602:biifelfgnkaocpnpjgoj" target="_top">Organizing a FLOSS Conference HOWTO</a>. A
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reviewer is being searched.</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">Anthony Lissot's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/" target="_top">Linux Partition HOWTO</a> at v3.5</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Ian Hakes's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DB2-HOWTO/" target="_top">DB2 Universal Database Version 8.2 for Linux HOWTO</a> at v1.1.7</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Rohit Agarwal's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/libdc1394-HOWTO/" target="_top">Libdc1394 Library Support for IEEE 1394 Cameras HOWTO</a> at v1.0</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">David S. Lawyer's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Serial HOWTO</a> at v2.24</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">David S. Lawyer's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Plug-and-Play-HOWTO</a> at v1.14</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">David S. Lawyer's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Text-Terminal-HOWTO</a> at v1.38</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Konstantin Boldyshev's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Assembly-HOWTO/" target="_top">Linux Assembly HOWTO</a> at v0.6g</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Steven A's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Quake-HOWTO.html" target="_top">Linux Quake How-To</a> at v2.02</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Wim van Dorst's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BogoMips/" target="_top">BogoMips mini-HOWTO.</a> at version 38</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Werner Heuser's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Ecology-HOWTO/" target="_top">Linux Ecology-HOWTO</a> at v 0.14.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Aaron Isotton's <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/C++-dlopen/" target="_top">C++ dlopen mini HOWTO</a> at v 1.10.</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://www.quadrunner.com/LDP" target="_top">http://www.quadrunner.com/LDP</a> maintained by Colin in Sacramento, CA. USA and updated daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.oss-mirror.org" target="_top">http://ldp.oss-mirror.org</a> maintained by Ralf Uhlemann in Dublin, Ireland and updated daily.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.linux-mirror.org" target="_top">http://ldp.linux-mirror.org</a> maintained by Michael Mettmann in Cologne/Koeln - Germany - Europe and updated
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daily</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://www.securehost.com/mirror/LDP/" target="_top">http://www.securehost.com/mirror/LDP/</a> maintained by R. Douglas and J. Harrison in Nassau, Bahamas and
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updated daily</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.lescampeurs.org" target="_top">http://ldp.lescampeurs.org</a> maintained by Charles Viard in Paris, France and updated daily</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://mirror.adult-pilot.net/LDP/" target="_top">http://mirror.adult-pilot.net/LDP/</a> in New York, USA and updated daily</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://tldp.mirror.qualispace.com/" target="_top">http://tldp.mirror.qualispace.com/</a> maintained by Nitesh N in Westerville, OH USA and updated
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daily</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://mirrors.stormbox.info/ldp" target="_top">http://mirrors.stormbox.info/ldp</a> maintained by Richard in Singapore and updated 4 times a day</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="ftp://ftp.linux.edu.lv/mirrors/LDP/" target="_top">ftp://ftp.linux.edu.lv/mirrors/LDP/</a> in Riga, Latvia and updated daily</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://tldp.paracoda.com" target="_top">http://tldp.paracoda.com</a> maintained by Hossam in Quebec, Canada and updated daily</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.conservativethinking.com/" target="_top">http://ldp.conservativethinking.com/</a> maintained by Chris Short in Chicago, USA and updated twice a
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day</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://www.studioinf.com/LDP/" target="_top">http://www.studioinf.com/LDP/</a> maintained by Andrea Gedda in Nurnberg, Germany and updated daily</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.cdmon.org/" target="_top">http://ldp.cdmon.org/</a> in Alicante, Spain and updated weekly</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.ods.org" target="_top">http://ldp.ods.org</a> maintained by Emilio Petrozzi in Verona, Wisconsin USA and updated daily</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://LDP.tantrum.org" target="_top">http://LDP.tantrum.org</a> maintained by Orlando in Clifton, NJ USA and updated daily</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://download.nextag.com/LDP/" target="_top">http://download.nextag.com/LDP/</a> maintained by Trieu Nguyen in Santa Clara, USA and updated daily</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 Hans Bol with help from several other people. To receive this newsletter weekly in your mailbox, subscribe to
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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="http://tldp.org/ldpwn" target=
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"_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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