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  <volumenum>2004</volumenum>
  <issuenum>2</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>2004-01-14</pubdate>
  <title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
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<sect1 id="new-released">

<title>New documents @ TLDP</title>

<para></para>
  
<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Jakob Østergaard and Emilio Bueso have released
their <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html">Software-RAID
HOWTO</ulink> v1.00.0.  The document discusses the 0.90 version of the
RAID tools to use with 2.4 kernels. It starts off explaining everything
you always wanted to know about RAID.  The document is very
well-balanced and accessible also to readers who are not familiar with
the topic and is certainly worth a read!</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>The <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Media-Guide/html/">Linux Media
Guide</ulink> by Sheldon Rose adds more to our Linux advocacy department,
providing tips and tricks on how to generate positive PR and press
coverage for our favorite systems.  The non-technical nature of this
document makes it an ideal read for your managers, marketing and sales
people.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="new-for-review">

<title>Documents submitted for review</title>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Ralf Holzer updated the <ulink
url="http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~rholzer/cryptoloop_mini_howto.html">Cryptoloop
Mini-HOWTO</ulink>. Comments on the new version are
welcome.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="new-proposed">

<title>New document proposals</title>

<para>David Jao is working on a DVD playing HOWTO, because, as he <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6400:200401:nnkgdppdkkplmdhkmeic">points
out</ulink>, the current document is way too outdated, unmaintained, and
no longer even remotely accurate.  Since everybody who wants to play
DVDs on Linux runs into DMCA and other barriers, the proposal was hauled
in enthusiastically.</para> </sect1>

<sect1 id="updated-docs">
<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Peter Jay Salzman's <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/">Debian Jigdo
mini-HOWTO</ulink> v1.1. A popular document: translations
in German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese are available from
<ulink url="http://www.dirac.org/linux/debian/jigdo">Peter's web
site</ulink>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Subhasish Ghosh updated the <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Win+BSD+Linux-Install/html/index.htm">Windows+BSD+Linux
Installation Guide</ulink> on Intel architecture, using the GRUB boot
loader.  This edition has an extended troubleshooting section and adds
RedHat 8.0 and FreeBSD 5.1 to the reader's choice.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>The <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html">MS Outlook to
Unix Mailbox Conversion mini-HOWTO</ulink> v1.4 by Greg Lindahl has
additional information on the conversion of attachments, which can
sometimes be very troublesome because of the bundling techniques used in
Outlook.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>David S. Lawyer, one of our most prominent LinuxDoc
evangelists, published v0.03 of the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html">Howtos with
LinuxDoc mini-HOWTO</ulink>, which is a polish-up of the previous
edition.</para>

<para>David didn't sit still the last couple of weeks: he did a rewrite
of the devices section in the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html">Modem HOWTO</ulink>, which
is now v0.32; added more on flow control and updated the device info in
the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html">Serial
HOWTO</ulink> v2.22 and there are some minor formatting changes in the
<ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html">Text
Terminal HOWTO</ulink>, v1.34.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Rick Moen found a couple more LUGS and did a license
change in v1.7.5 of the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group
HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Miroslav Skoric's triplet: v1.29 of the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS
mini-HOWTO</ulink> tells about the upgrade-to-RH9 adventure and there is
some minor rephrasing in v3.18 of the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink> and v2.18
of the <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT
mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>

<listitem> <para>The latest version of Peter Bieringer's <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/index.html">Linux+IPv6
HOWTO</ulink> (v0.45). This revision has some minor fixes in the
document and the URLs and a few extensions.</para> </listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="tldp-world">
<title>News in The LDP world</title>

<sect2 id="news-item1">
<title>Malaysia mirror changes URL</title>

<para>The responsible for the Selangor i-ownur.info mirror informed us
about domain name problems they are having, due to which the mirror is
now located at <ulink
url="http://ldp.leakage.org">http://ldp.leakage.org</ulink>. Like the
previous one, it is updated daily.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="news-item2">
<title>Out of date Acer HOWTO</title>

<para>Though The LDP is facing a lot of problems with old and
out-of-date documents these days, once in a while, we do hear from
responsible authors regarding what they want to be done to their
documents. Emma <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6431:200401:ikndjmbepldekebhjjej">got
in touch</ulink> with Harish Thampi, the author of the Acer HOWTO, which
has not been updated since 3 years. Harish <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6432:200401:ikndjmbepldekebhjjej">would
probably</ulink> submit the document to linux-on-laptops.com</para>

<para>Emma is also <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6426:200401:ikndjmbepldekebhjjej">going
through our collection</ulink> to check for out of date documents and
duplicate information suggesting merging of documents wherever
applicable. Thank you Emma for that.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="news-item3">
<title>Docbook, Emacs/PSGML documentation</title>

<para>Charles Curley pointed to us that there is some useful
documentation on Docbook and Emacs/PSGML at <ulink
url="http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/documentation-guide/">http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/documentation-guide/</ulink>.</para>

</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="feedback">
<title>HOWTO contribute to TLDP</title>

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<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>

<para>The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</para>

</sect1>

</article>
