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  <volumenum>2003</volumenum>
  <issuenum>11</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>2003-07-08</pubdate>
  <title>TLDP Weekly News</title>
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<sect1>
<title>New documents</title>

<sect2>
<title>Proposed new documents</title>
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<listitem><para>Wolfgang Fuschlberger <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4664:200307:bihoclgaklofcdbfodgc">proposed to summarize</ulink> the process describing the setting up a Linux-Box to act as a public Web-Terminal. The only other document he could find describing a similar work is the Kiosk-HOWTO, which is rather outdated.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Emma Jane Hogbin <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4676:200307:ikndjmbepldekebhjjej">proposed to write</ulink> a HOWTO on Multi-lingual Searching With ht://dig. A draft version is available at <ulink url="http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/language.phtml">http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/language.phtml</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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</sect2>

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

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>M. Gareth sent in his GNU Tools Linux summary for review, you can read it at <ulink url="http://www.karakas-online.de/gnu_linux_tools_summary/t1.html" />.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Machtelt Garrels submitted a document entitled <ulink url="http://tille.soti.org/training/bash">Bash for Beginners</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Eduardo Sztokbant sent in a proposal for a document describing <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5259:200307:ggkdllnfmpnmjddcgofj">HOWTO plug you USB Sony DSC camera</ulink> into your Linux box.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Simon Anderson put together a <ulink url="http://oob.freeshell.org/nzwireless/LWAP-HOWTO.html">Linux Wireless Access Point HOWTO</ulink> and would like to include the document in the LDP collection.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Binh announced that the Linux Dictionary Draft Publication is ready for interested people to take a look at <ulink url="http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/">http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/</ulink>.</para></listitem>
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</sect2>

</sect1>

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

<para>We had a bit of delay, so here's to make it up to you:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Saqib Ali updated his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Apache-WebDAV-LDAP-HOWTO/">Apache-WebDAV-LDAP HOWTO</ulink>, it is now at v4.0.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Thorsten Kukuk updated his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/">Linux NIS(YP)/NYS/NIS+ HOWTO</ulink> to v1.3.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Evgueni Tzvetanov renamed his first Oracle related HOWTO to include RedHat9.  It is now called the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Oracle-9i-RH8-and-RH9-HOWTO.html">Oracle-9i-RH8-and-RH9-HOWTO</ulink>. Note that this is only a simple installation example.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bryan Henderson sent us v1.03 of his <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/">Linux Loadable Kernel Module HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>We also got v1.4 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/">Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO</ulink>, by Eric Steven Raymond.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>And Gerardo Arnaez sent in v2.2.2 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Wireless-Link-sys-WPC11/">Link-sys WPC11 Mini-HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TimePrecision-HOWTO/">TimePrecision-HOWTO</ulink> by AviAlkalay explains the accurate management of date and time, this document is v1.0.5 now.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Al Dev submitted v6.1 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/">Linux Kernel HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Emma Jane Hogbin summarizes the installation process for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface in her <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/">ACPI HOWTO</ulink>.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Mendel Cooper sent in v1.9 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</ulink>.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>

</sect1>

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

<sect2>
<title>Updated ldp-xsl stylesheets</title>
<para>David Horton <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?2:mss:441:200307:lohjkpdcebjmjedplhpl">sent in an update</ulink> indicating that he fixed the LDP XSL stylesheets to work with docbook-xsl-1.61.3. The updated version is available at <ulink url="http://my.core.com/~dhorton/docbook/tldp-xsl/tldp-xsl-30jun2003.tar.gz">tldp-xsl-30jun2003.tar.gz</ulink> and David is interested in feedback.
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</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Fixed LDP CVS request form</title>
<para>Sergiusz Pawlowicz <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4666:200307:dakblliambaibglandeb">announced</ulink> that the broken LDP CVS account request form was now fixed. In case you were waiting for your account to be created, fill in the form once again at <ulink url="http://tldp.org/cvs/">http://tldp.org/cvs/</ulink>.
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</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>LDP Author Guide: New outline</title>
<para>Emma Jane Hogbin felt that the <ulink url="">LDP Author Guide</ulink> was overwhelming to new writers, and wrote a <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4692:200307:ikndjmbepldekebhjjej">new outline</ulink> for the same.
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</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Re-indexed LDP documents</title>
<para>
M. Lee Cooper had <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4671:200307:gogpemcpgmjdagijfkka">suggestions for LDP study guides</ulink>. Such a guide would consist of a reading list of LDP documents, HOWTOs and Guides, on each topic. Chris Karkas said that <ulink url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4675:200307:abhpkacpeilgccjkfapm">re-indexing the HOWTOs</ulink> under various criterion would be of added value. However, a <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/categories.html">categorized list of HOWTOs</ulink> is already available.
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</sect2>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="feedback">
<title>Feedback and Contributions</title>
                                                                                
<para>Please help us create this weekly newsletter. Seen a site putting
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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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