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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> 18<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2005-05-04<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="#new-released">New documents @ The LDP</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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<ul>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Local links<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Several people already pointed out that our <a href="http://www.tldp.org/docs.html" target="_top">docs page</a> has absolute pointers back to iBiblio, whether you use the
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main site or a mirror. Because the mirrors do have the complete collection, having absolute links is rather pointless. The issue is now being dealt with and local links will be made available
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soon.</span></p>
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</li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">The LDP history<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Greg Ferguson put up an article <a href="http://www.tldp.org/history.html" target="_top">TLDP history</a> that was published earlier in LinuxJournal. Some feedback, however,
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still needs to be incorporated to make it accurately reflect what happened during the last 10 years.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Unmaintained Documents<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Guido Gonzato sent in a mail indicating that he doesn't have the time to maintain the Configuration HOWTO, From DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO, From VMS to Linux HOWTO and the
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Saving Space mini-HOWTO. If you would like to maintain any of these documents, send a mail to the <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:discuss@en.tldp.org">discuss@en.tldp.org</a>></tt> list.
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Thank you Guido for writing and maintaining these documents so far.</span></p>
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<li><span class="rss:item">OpenSource XML authoring tools<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">Saqib Ali is covering VEX and ButterflyXML in his article for Free Software Magazine. The article might be interesting for HOWTO authors and editors. The HTML version is at
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<a href="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_03/practical_applications_xml/" target=
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"_top">http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_03/practical_applications_xml/</a>.</span></p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="new-released"></a>2. New documents @ The LDP</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Trevor Harmon finalized the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TimeSys-Linux-Install-HOWTO/" target="_top">TimeSys Linux Install mini-HOWTO</a>, which is a quick-start guide
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for installing TimeSys Linux on a typical desktop workstation. In the words of the author <span class="QUOTE">"TimeSys Linux is a derivative of Linux created by TimeSys Corporation. It includes a
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fully preemptible kernel, a constant-time scheduler, fully schedulable interrupt handlers, fully schedulable soft-IRQs, and reduced interrupt disable times. These features reduce latency to a point
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where TimeSys Linux can be used as a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS)."</span>.</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">Nicolas Dufour prepares submission of the <a href="http://www.nemoworld.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=70" target="_top">Linux
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Aviation HOWTO</a>, listing useful software for private, commercial and military pilots, airlines, airports and anything having to do with aeronautics.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Machtelt Garrels proposes <a href="http://tille.xalasys.com/training/tldp/flowcharts.php" target="_top">new versions of the flowcharts explaining TLDP workings</a>.
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Yaroslaw Fedevych helped making them more accessible by re-styling the <a href="http://docs.linux.org.ua/stuff/tldp/pubprocess.pdf" target="_top">Publishing Process Flowchart</a> and the <a href=
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"http://docs.linux.org.ua/stuff/tldp/maint.pdf" target="_top">Maintenance Process Flowchart</a>. Yaroslaw's versions are put forward for publication.</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">David Ranch updated the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/" target="_top">Linux IP Masquerade HOWTO</a>. It has now more comments in the example rulesets.
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Apart from that lots of polishing has been done to streamline this HOWTO. The the rc.firewall-iptables-stronger ruleset was updated to fix a typo.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Avi Alkalay updated the <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TimePrecision-HOWTO/" target="_top">Managing Accurate Date and Time</a> to v1.0.9. This update includes a link to
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french translation.</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://xsteadfastx.is-a-geek.org/LDP" target="_top">http://xsteadfastx.is-a-geek.org/LDP</a> by Marvin Preuss, in Wolfsburg, Germany.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://tldp.attrition.jp/" target="_top">http://tldp.attrition.jp/</a> by Ryan, in Tokyo, Japan. This is our first Japanese mirror, thank you Ryan!</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://tldp.corporacionlinux.cl" target="_top">http://tldp.corporacionlinux.cl</a> by Rodrigo Henriquez M., in Santiago, Chili.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://www.linux.org.py/LDP/" target="_top">http://www.linux.org.py/LDP/</a> by Oliver Schultze, the first mirror in Paraguay. It is located in the city of
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Asuncion. Thank you, Oliver!</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.mirrorplus.org" target="_top">http://ldp.mirrorplus.org</a> by the admins of MirrorPlus, Munich, Germany.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://debian.phys.hacettepe.edu.tr/LDP" target="_top">http://debian.phys.hacettepe.edu.tr/LDP</a> by Mustafa Bayramgil, in Ankara, Turkey.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.mirrors.asianbaptist.org/" target="_top">http://ldp.mirrors.asianbaptist.org/</a> by Matthew Isam, first mirror in the state of Oklahoma, USA.
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Congratulations!</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://viveka.math.hr/LDP/" target="_top">http://viveka.math.hr/LDP/</a> by Vedran Sego, in Zagreb, Croatia. First Croatian mirror, well done!</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://viveka.math.hr/LDP/" target="_top">http://viveka.math.hr/LDP/</a> by Marius David, Timisoara, Romania.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://gcwilhelm.dynalias.com/ldp/" target="_top">http://gcwilhelm.dynalias.com/ldp/</a> by Gunter Wilhelm, Kirschhausen, Germany.</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 <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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<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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