LDP weekly news

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 27
Publication Date : 2003-10-29
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Table of Contents
1. New documents
    1.1. Fresh-AT-LDP
    1.2. Submitted for review
    1.3. Proposed New Documents
   
   
2. Updates
    2.1. HOWTOs
   
   
3. Feedback and Contributions

1. New documents

1.1. Fresh-AT-LDP

No new documents this week, but if you all help with the reviewing, we'll
soon have a couple of them for the next issue, see next section.
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1.2. Submitted for review

A lot of new documents this week for review:

Ž Ž *Ž Manoj Warrier sent in the 
    [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6116:200310:mfmfhldbnmphljajklim] 
    first submission of his Scientific computing on GNU/Linux using 
    free software HOWTO, which is already 
    [http://SciLinux.sourceforge.net] available from Sourceforge.
   
Ž Ž *Ž Another first submission, this one from Thomas Miglinci, is the 
    [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6122:200310:peoehkdflgbepalcfodc] 
    SIMpad HOWTO, dealing with the installation and configuration of Linux 
    on the Siemens Web Tablet.
   
Ž Ž *Ž And yet another first-timer: the 
    [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6124:200310:cndldkmfnfphflbbcfba] 
    Linux Kernel 0.01 Commentary, by Pramode C.E.
   

Apart from that, we received these submissions for existing documents:

Ž Ž *Ž From Miroslav Skoric, 
    [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6172:200310:akfanghehooklaknddfk] 
    updates for his FBB mini-HOWTO, LILO mini-HOWTO and
    Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO.
   
Ž Ž *Ž From Leo Cooper: the 
    [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:6175:200310:bcpajhjdjpmbcfdjegck] 
    Advanced Bash Scripting Guide v2.2.
   

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1.3. Proposed New Documents

Ž Ž *Ž Ivan A. Uemlianin sent in a detailed proposal for a CMU Sphinx HOWTO.
    [http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/] CMU Sphinx is a suite of free
    software for speech recognition.
   

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2. Updates

2.1. HOWTOs

Ž Ž *Ž We published v2.1 of Luigi Bitonti's 
    [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/RedHat-CD-HOWTO/] RedHat CD HOWTO, 
    it now contains tips on how to burn your own RedHat 9 CDs.
   
Ž Ž *Ž Rick Moen added a couple more LUGs to his list, the 
    [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html] Linux User Group HOWTO 
    is now at v1.7.2.
   
Ž Ž *Ž The [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bangla-HOWTO/] Bangla HOWTO is a joint effort
    of Taneem Ahmed, Santanu Chatterjee, Progga and Sayamindu Dasgupta,
    explaining how to add Bengali (Bangla) support on your GNU/Linux. v1.1.3
    now.
   
Ž Ž *Ž Daniel Quintiliani's 
    [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Windows-Newsreaders-under-Linux-HOWTO/] Windows 
    Newsreaders under Linux HOWTO v2.01 contains a lot of corrections 
    and a promise to add more news readers to this document.
   
Ž Ž *Ž For making an informed decision on buying a SPARC machine for Linux, we
    have the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SPARC-HOWTO.html] SPARC HOWTO, modestly
    versioned v0.0.5, by "Lionel, trollhunter Bouchpan-Lerust-JuŽÃŽ©ry".
   

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3. Feedback and Contributions

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