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<articleinfo>
  <volumenum>2003</volumenum>
  <issuenum>8</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>2003-06-10</pubdate>
  <title>TLDP Weekly News</title>
</articleinfo>

<sect1>
<title>The LDP Weekly News - RSS Feed</title>
<para>The LDP Weekly News now has a <ulink url="http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/">RSS</ulink> style XML newsfeed. The newsfeed can be accessed from the <quote>Feed</quote> link on the <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">TLDP home page</ulink>. Thanks to Chris Karakas for his technical assistance with this.</para>
</sect1>

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

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Claudio Erba, Chris Karakas, Andre Purfield and
Fortunato Matarazzo wrote a <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/PHP-Nuke-HOWTO/">PHP-Nuke: Management and Programming HOWTO</ulink>.</para>
<blockquote><para>
There has always been the necessity to have a definitive guide on
PHP-Nuke.  This tutorial describes the installation and structure of
PHP-Nuke and the details of customizing the front end to suit the users'
needs. The architecture of PHP-Nuke, with its modules, blocks, topics
and themes is presented in detail, as well as the interplay of PHP and
MySQL for the creation of a mighty content management system (CMS).It
also delves into more advanced issues, like the programming of PHP-Nuke
blocks and modules.
</para></blockquote></listitem>

<listitem><para>Ian Ward's <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/">Debian and Windows Shared
Printing mini-HOWTO</ulink> has been released</para>
<blockquote><para>
This HOWTO will demonstrate how to use command-line tools to configure
your Debian system for printing. It will explain how to send documents
from Linux to Windows printers and how to share Linux printers with
Windows PCs.  Some troubleshooting examples are also given.
</para></blockquote></listitem>

<listitem><para>Mark Hubbard's <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/VB6-to-Tcl/">VB6 To Tcl
mini-HOWTO</ulink> has been added to the LDP collection</para>
<blockquote><para>
A 15 Minute Tcl Tour For Visual Basic and VBScript Programmers.
</para></blockquote></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect2>

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

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Chris Albert proposed to write an <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4468:200305:oalgiegalcmfindiabbc">Anti-Spam-HOWTO</ulink></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Gerardo Arnaez <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4489:200306:okdlookblphamieiimpc">would like to write
a HOWTO</ulink> on qmail, vpopmail, qmailadmin server (on Debian) that
allows stmp after POP authentication.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect2>

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

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Jorje Bernal submitted a <ulink url="http://tuxland.servebeer.com/koke/howtos/Coloring-HOWTO/">Linux Coloring mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para>
<blockquote><para>
Mini-HOWTO to use the ansi sequences to put colors in the shell.
</para></blockquote></listitem>

<listitem><para>Gerardo Arnaez submitted a <ulink
url="http://www.mung.net/~dude/howto/Qmail-vpop-qmailadmin.html">Qmail,
Vpopmail, Qmailadmin HOWTO</ulink> for review.</para>
<blockquote><para>
A cookbook to set up a DEBIAN based Qmail servers that allows virtual
emails and SMTP after POP authentication.
</para></blockquote></listitem>

<listitem><para>Howard Shane submitted a <ulink
url="http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/Scanner-HOWTO.html">Scanner-HOWTO</ulink>
for review.</para>
<blockquote><para>
This document was written to assist the linux user in setting up their
raster image scanner device, including flatbed, hand-held, video- and
still-cameras, frame-grabbers and so on. It includes information on
interface types, kernel support, making and accessing the necessary
devices, and finally brief descriptions of applications available for
use both at the command line and within X-windows to access scanner
hardware.
</para></blockquote></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1>  
<title>Updates</title>
<sect2>
<title>HOWTOs</title>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Miroslav "Misko" Skoric's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FBB.html">FBB Packet-radio BBS
mini-HOWTO</ulink> has been updated to v1.18</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>David Horton's <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Pocket-Linux-Guide/html/">Pocket Linux Guide</ulink> is now at v1.2</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bangla-HOWTO/">Bengali in GNU/Linux HOWTO</ulink> has been updated to v1.1.2</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Ingvar Hagelund's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IBM7248-HOWTO/">Installing GNU/Linux on the IBM RS/6000 43P model 7248 HOWTO</ulink> is now at v2.0</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Peter Bieringer's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/">Linux IPv6 HOWTO</ulink> is at v0.43</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Eric Steven Raymond's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/">Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO</ulink> is at v1.3</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect2>
  
</sect1>

<sect1 id="happenings">
<title>Happenings in the LDP world</title>

<sect2>
<title>Anti-Spam-HOWTO</title>

<para>
Chris Albert asked if the discussion last year regarding writing an
Anti-Spam-HOWTO got off ground and <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4468:200305:oalgiegalcmfindiabbc">offered
to help</ulink>. Quite a few others <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4473:200305:hnngjagkpgjpnacjkpjd">were
interested</ulink> in helping. Greg Ferguson <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4494:200306:loceblldbelajghaloeg">said</ulink>
that he has been following the discussion with interest and noted that
collaborative authoring using CVS is the direction what he hopes the LDP
would move.
</para>

<para>
Hal Burgiss <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4542:200306:hnngjagkpgjpnacjkpjd">announced</ulink> that Chris had set up a mailing list for anyone who is interested in contributing, or just hanging out. To subscribe, send a message to:
</para>

<para>
<email>LISTSERV@LISTS.MCGILL.CA</email>
</para>

<para>
with a blank subject line , and body without signature:
</para>

<para>
SUB ANTI-SPAM-HOWTO firstname lastname
</para>

<para>
Chris is working on the <ulink
url="http://lists.mcgill.ca/archives/anti-spam-howto.html">list
archives</ulink> for the ANTI-SPAM-HOWTO list, but the list is already
discussing the content of the HOWTO and an <ulink
url="http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/howto/docbook/Anti-Spam-HOWTO/README">outline
draft</ulink> is in the CVS.

</para>

</sect2>

</sect1>

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

<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>
</sect1>

</article>
