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  <volumenum>2003</volumenum>
  <issuenum>21</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>2003-09-17</pubdate>
  <title>TLDP Weekly News</title>
</articleinfo>

<sect1>
<title>New documents</title>

<sect2>
<title>Proposed new documents</title>

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<listitem><para>Martin A. Brown, the author of <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Traffic-Control-tcng-HTB-HOWTO/index.html">Traffic Control tcng-HTB HOWTO</ulink>, wrote a new one plainly called <ulink url="http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/howto/docbook/Traffic-Control-HOWTO/">Traffic Control HOWTO</ulink>.  It is more detailed than the first HOWTO, introducing core concepts of traffic control systems to users and system administrators who want to deploy traffic control in their networks.  Martin is eager to publish it and awaits your comments.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Expect a <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:5001:200309:kbhelhdodilmhcfclfkb">Installing and Running Linux under a Virtual PC</ulink> from Chris Gehlker.</para></listitem>

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<sect2>
<title>Submitted for review</title>

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<listitem><para>Christophe Devine posted the first draft of his <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5809:200309:dlljgdjednklpdmjfbnl">Encrypted Root Filesystem HOWTO</ulink>. The document, like any other that gets into the collection needs review. Over to Tabatha.</para></listitem>

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</sect2>
</sect1>

<sect1>  
<title>Updates</title>

<sect2>
<title>HOWTOs</title>

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<listitem><para>Call us security freaks or paranoid, our data is a matter of privacy.  If you agree with this, check out v1.1 of David Braun's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Disk-Encryption-HOWTO/">Disk Encryption HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Daniel Quintiliani has extended his <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xnews-under-Linux-HOWTO/index.html">Xnews under Linux HOWTO</ulink>.  Since he is covering more newsreaders in v2.0, he has renamed his HOWTO as the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Windows-Newsreaders-under-Linux-HOWTO/">Windows Newsreaders in Linux HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Svetoslav Slavtchev has updated his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/">XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO</ulink> to v1.2.</para></listitem>

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</sect2>
  
<sect2>
<title>Guides</title>

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<listitem><para>Mendel Cooper has been maintaining the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html">Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</ulink> for quite some time now.  After over 3 years, it is now at v2.1.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Find out everything about your filesystem in Binh Nguyen's <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html">Linux Filesystem Hierarchy</ulink> documentation, v0.61.</para></listitem>

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</sect2>

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<sect1 id="feedback">
<title>Feedback and Contributions</title>

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

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