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  <volumenum>2004</volumenum>
  <issuenum>4</issuenum>
  <publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
  <pubdate>2004-01-28</pubdate>
  <title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
</articleinfo>

<sect1 id="new-proposed">

<title>New document proposals</title>

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<listitem><para>Jeff Horsager wants to write an SSH HOWTO.  He motivates
the proposal <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6541:200401:acgppaonbojgaglolioj">here</ulink>.
A lot of people responded positively and <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6545:200401:acgppaonbojgaglolioj">an
outline</ulink> started to form.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Jing S. Tang wrote a <ulink
url="http://www.tangshanjing.0catch.com/bootingUSB_ldp.htm">bootingUSB
HOWTO</ulink>. This document explains how to create a Linux bootable USB
disk step by step. The target USB disk will contain the GRUB boot
loader, the boot file system and the root file system.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>David Jao <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6562:200401:hnkfheeekokahihbpldi">posted</ulink>
a draft version of his <ulink url="http://dominia.org/djao/dvd-howto/">DVD
Playback HOWTO draft</ulink>. Thomas Zimmerman also posted <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6573:200401:hedpdfoogcppgnlpcfnb">what he
thinks</ulink> about the document, your comments are welcome.
</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

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

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>There's a new version of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO/">Linux Security HOWTO</ulink> by Kevin Fenzi and Dave Wreski.  V2.3 covers passwords in GRUB and explains umask operation in detail.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>The <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/K7s5a-HOWTO.html">K7s5a HOWTO</ulink>, an
effort by Sebfrance, Andreas Willenbrink, &#193;lvaro Reguly and Paolo
Berva, documents the K7s5a mainboard.  It has instructions to make the integrated sound board work, how to get the sensors to do sensible reporting and how to activate the LAN adapter.  New in v1.6 are the instructions for Debian.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Daniel Quintiliani's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Windows-Newsreaders-under-Linux-HOWTO/">Windows Newsreaders under Linux HOWTO</ulink> v2.2 covers the latest stable version of <ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/">wine</ulink>, which causes a series of new problems.  Daniel documents each newsreader with its particular bugs.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/">Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO</ulink> v1.4 by Ian Ward has some minor corrections.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Mendel Cooper's <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">Advanced Bash Scripting Guide</ulink> v2.4 has bug fixes; the PDF version which previously had problems is now also OK.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Ralf Holzer released the v1.1 of his <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/">Cryptoloop
HOWTO</ulink>. This revision comes with updated information on patching
util-linux, Loop-AES, Best Crypt.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

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

<sect2 id="news-item1">
<title>CD Distributions EN HOWTO removed</title>

<para>Martin Wheeler requested that his HOWTO on "English-language
GNU/Linux distributions on CD-ROM" be removed. You are pointed to either the <ulink url="http://www.distrowatch.com/">DistroWatch site</ulink> or the <ulink url="http://www.linux.org/dist/">Linux Online site</ulink> as an alternative.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="news-item2">
<title>manpages from the IEEE and The Open Group</title>

<para>Alexander Voropay <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6575:200401:fnicdlaomnhkanlogpej">updated</ulink>
us that The <ulink
url="http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/pr_linuxman.html">IEEE</ulink>
and <ulink url="http://linuxpr.com/releases/6599.html">The Open Group</ulink> have granted permission to the
Linux Manual Pages Project to incorporate material from the
joint IEEE 1003.1T POSIXR standard and The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 6.</para>

</sect2>

</sect1>

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

<para>The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing
free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If
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<para>Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the
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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>

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