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  <volumenum>2003</volumenum>
  <issuenum>18</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>2003-08-26</pubdate>
  <title>TLDP Weekly News</title>
</articleinfo>

<sect1>
<title>New documents</title>
<sect2>
  <title>Fresh@LDP</title>

<para>Two new documents this week:</para>
  
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<listitem><para>Review Howard Shane's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Motorola-Surfboard-Modem/">Motorola Surfboard 4100 + 4200 Series USB Cable Modem mini-HOWTO</ulink> if you want to know how to set up this type of cable modem.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>By the same author, we published the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Scanner-HOWTO/


">Scanner HOWTO</ulink>, a long-time black hole in the Linux documentation which is now being filled.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>
</sect2>

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

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<listitem><para>Same goes for Daniel Quintiliani, who proposed a <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5635:200308:jlhemghkmopilehhclgh">Xnews-under-Linux-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Rick Meyerhoff <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4929:200308:dpdmmjkaoffllcanppmg">proposed</ulink>
to write an InstallFest-HOWTO.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Timothy
M. Lyons <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4962:200308:caoagifgbibgkipmobdn">wanted
to contribute</ulink> a new mini-HOWTO on using grub to multi-boot into
RH9/Win2K/WinXP and using VMware and Raw disks to utilize any alternate OS's
while in any one of the others.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>
</sect2>

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

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<listitem><para>Salvador Peralta posted a <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5614:200308:dldliacnddfeplmahjid">Scripting Graphical commands with Tcl/Tk mini-HOWTO</ulink>, but Tabatha asked to send it to the general discuss mailing-list first for discussion.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Saqib Shaikh has been maintaining a document called the
<quote>BLinux Software Map</quote> which aims to give an objective
overview of software currently available to help blind users use Linux
and would like to submit to the LDP after review. If you are interested
in reviewing this document, get in touch with
<email>tabatha@merlinmonroe.com</email>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>core_dump <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4957:200308:njejamjkdcgecipicpmj">posted</ulink> his Xnews-under-Linux-HOWTO for review. The document describes how to get the Windows newsreader Xnews to work under Linux and deal with problems that may arise.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>David Braun's <ulink url="http://mica.nfshost.com/HOWTO/Disk-Encryption/">Disk Encryption HOWTO</ulink> has been converted to DocBook. And David has requested for feedback.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect2>
</sect1>

<sect1>  
<title>Updates</title>

<sect2>
<title>HOWTOs</title>

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<listitem><para>Another update for Miroslav Skovic's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO</ulink>, which is now v1.23.  By the same author v 3.12 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html">LILO mini-HOWTO</ulink> and the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO</ulink> v2.12.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>By Saqib Ali: the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO/">Apache based WebDAV Server with LDAP and SSL</ulink>, v4.0.2.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>From Stephen A. Zarkos, we received the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Sentry-Firewall-CD-HOWTO.html">Sentry Firewall CD HOWTO</ulink>, v1.3.1.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html">Linux Ethernet-HOWTO</ulink> by Paul Gortmaker, v2.9 is now available.</para></listitem>

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

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<listitem><para>M. Leo Cooper sent in v2.0 of the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">Advanced Bash Scripting Guide</ulink>.</para></listitem>

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</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Various</title>
                                                                                
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<listitem><para>Paul Sutton updated his <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/REF/Joe-Command-Reference/">JOE Command Reference</ulink> to v3.0.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>It appears that the heat has done our Spanish colleagues much good ;-)  So much indeed, you better take a look yourself this time at the new items listed at <ulink url="http://es.tldp.org" />.</para></listitem>                                                                                
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</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1>
<title>Happenings in the LDP world</title>

<sect2>
<title>LDP Author Guide</title>

<para>
After about 30 hours of hard work, Emma Jane Hogbin <ulink url="http://cvs.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/guide/docbook/LDP-Author-Guide/">commited</ulink> the changes that she had planned for the LDP-Author-Guide. You are allowed to poke around but Emma would prefer that no major changes apart from the re-organization that she had earlier suggested be done until the proposed task is complete.
</para>

</sect2>

</sect1>

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

<para>
You can help The Linux Documentation Project by:
</para>
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<listitem><para>Reviewing one of the draft versions of the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/authors/inprogress.html">documents in progress</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Picking up one of the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html">unmaintained documents</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Providing assistance with <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/authors/markup.html">markup</ulink>.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>Please help us create this weekly newsletter. Seen a site putting
in a story with a link to the LDP? Completed the translation of any
HOWTO?  Know of any articles about the LDP published in newspapers or
magazines? You can update us by sending in links and information at
<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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