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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> 16<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2004-04-21<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#new-review">Documents submitted for review</a></dt>
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<dt>2. <a href="#new-proposed">New document proposals</a></dt>
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<dt>3. <a href="#updated-docs">Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#tldp-world-news">News in The LDP world</a></dt>
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<dt>5. <a href="#tldp-contribute">HOWTO contribute to The LDP</a></dt>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-review"></a>1. Documents submitted for review</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The review of Lars Strand's OLSR IPv6 HOWTO is nearing completion. OLSR is a routing protocol used in mobile ad-hoc networks. <a href=
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"http://www.gnist.org/~lars/work/insc/code/OLSR-IPv6-HOWTO-v0.5.tar.bz2" target="_top">Here is a preliminary copy of the OLSR IPv6 HOWTO</a>, created with the help of the OLSRd developer.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Emma Jane Hogbin submitted an update of the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LDP-Reviewer-HOWTO/" target="_top">Reviewer HOWTO</a>. This document contains information for our
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editors so that they can streamline the look and feel of TLDP documents.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Nearly there with the <a href="http://cvs.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/howto/docbook/Kernel-Build-HOWTO/" target="_top">Kernel Build HOWTO</a> by Kwan Lowe. A lot of our readers
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have been complaining about the retirement of the Kernel HOWTO, and about the time it takes to rewrite this document. Good news: your patience will be rewarded very soon. Our reviewer team is raising
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efforts to have the language and technical review ready by the end of this week.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-proposed"></a>2. New document proposals</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Howard Shane came up with the idea of writing a <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:msp:7057:200404:biifelfgnkaocpnpjgoj" target="_top">Home Office</a> HOWTO or FAQ,
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addressing such questions as <span class="QUOTE">"how to print different types of files?"</span> and <span class="QUOTE">"Which applications to use to print, FAQ and format files and share them among
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others with non-Linux systems?"</span>. He argues that much of the information needed by beginning users is out there, but shattered over tens of different documents and thus hard to find. Howard
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awaits your input.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Zeeshan Ali asks whether his <a href="http://www.geocities.com/zeelists/video-wall.xml" target="_top">Video-Wall HOWTO</a>, using Xinerama and Gstreamer, would be a good
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addition to TLDP. The document has been around for a while, but he now converted it to XML and applies for inclusion in our collection. Send him your comments!. Emma Jane Hogbin <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7077:200404:nokhehdlcjgfemldedhm" target="_top">had a few questions</a> about the documents content and detail.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Martin Rodgers thinks his <a href="http://www.wildcard.demon.co.uk/howto/ameol-wine.html" target="_top">Ameol/Wine HOWTO</a> is finished. Ameol is the off-line reader for
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the commercial CIX service. Martin would appreciate input from Ameol users.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">K. Richard Pixley spent most of last week attempting to get an LDAP server up and running for authenticating both linux and samba and <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7065:200404:ekgmocengagkoejbgelf" target="_top">found</a> that the available HOWTOs were helpful, but insufficient. Richard floated his idea of a HOWTO for
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this. Emma Jane Hogbin <a href="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:7080:200404:ikndjmbepldekebhjjej" target="_top">was of the opinion</a> that If the current LDAP HOWTO or the
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LDAP-Implementation-HOWTO are lacking information, then they should be improved.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="updated-docs"></a>3. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">AJ Lewis' <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/" target="_top">LVM HOWTO</a> v0.9 features an updated FAQ, info about ext3, an updated links section and an overview of
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LVM2 commands.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Emma Jane Hogbin updated the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/index.html" target="_top">LDP Author Guide</a>. The v4.4 comes with an added editor
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credit requirements to the Using DocBook section. The submission procedure has also been updated. New documents can now only be added by one of the review coordinators after the successful completion
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of each of the required reviews.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Mobile-IPv6-HOWTO/" target="_top">Linux Mobile IPv6 HOWTO</a> has been updated to v1.2 by Lars Strand. The new version has updates to the
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links section and the licence has been changed to GNU FDL with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-world-news"></a>4. News in The LDP world</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Wanted: Game Server HOWTO maintainer<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Anders Jensen-Urstad is looking for somebody to take over the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Game-Server-HOWTO/index.html" target="_top">Game Server HOWTO</a>.
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The document describes setup and maintenance of the various Quake servers and the Half-Life and Unreal Tournament servers.</span></p>
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</li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Outdated LDP man page<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Very few people know that most Linux systems come with an LDP man page that you can display with the <b class="command">man <tt class="parameter"><i>LDP</i></tt></b>
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command. Unfortunately, this man page contains a lot of old links. The maintainer has been contacted to put this straight, and we hope it doesn't take too long for all distributions to include the
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corrected man page.</span></p>
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</li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">In-progress list updated<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">The <a href="http://tldp.org/authors/inprogress.html" target="_top">list of documents being reviewed</a> has been cleaned out rigidly by Emma Jane, who jumps in while
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Tabatha takes a much-needed holiday.</span></p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-contribute"></a>5. HOWTO contribute to The LDP</h1>
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<p><a href="http://www.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>.</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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<p>The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</p>
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