LDP Weekly News

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 1
Publication Date : 2004-01-07
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Table of Contents
1. New document proposals
2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
3. News in The LDP world
    3.1. Active Brazilian TLDP effort
    3.2. DocBook quick reference card
   
   
4. Discussions on TLDP lists
    4.1. LDP unreachable author problems
   
   
5. HOWTO contribute to TLDP

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News wishes its readers a happy year
2004.
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1. New document proposals

  * Nathan Rosenquist submitted [http://www.rsnapshot.org/howto.html] a draft
    for a HOWTO accompanying the rsnapshot program. He awaits your comments.
   

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2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

  * The [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Windows-Newsreaders-under-Linux-HOWTO/]
    Windows Newsreaders under Linux HOWTO v2.11 by Daniel Quintiliani focuses
    on getting the sound right.
   
  * From Rick Moen we published v1.7.4 of the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/
    User-Group-HOWTO.html] Linux User Group HOWTO and v1.4.16 of the [http://
    tldp.org/FAQ/WordPerfect-Linux-FAQ] WordPerfect on Linux FAQ.
   
  * Greg Lindahl's [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html] MS
    Outlook to Unix Mailbox Conversion mini HOWTO v1.3 details the conversion
    of MS Outlook (not Outlook Express) mailboxes to UNIX mailboxes using
    Mozilla or IMAP.
   
  * More nifty things you can do with Bash in Mendel Cooper's [http://
    www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/] Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide v2.3.
   
  * The Linux Loadable Kernel Module HOWTO by Bryan Henderson is now at
    v1.05. This revision has information on module.h and -DMODULE, typo fixes
    and adds information on kallsyms.
   
  * The revised LDP Author Guide with the separated sections on authoring
    process (main guide) and technical HOWTOs (appendix). Now at v4.0.11.
   
  * Machtelt Garrels's Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide has been
    updated with a few changes in the document for better presentation of the
    content. The document is now at v1.9
   
  * From [http://es.tldp.org/] http://es.tldp.org/: Antonio Villalón Huerta
    published v2.1 of [http://es.tldp.org/Manuales-LuCAS/doc-unixsec/]
    Seguridad en Unix y Redes.
   

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3. News in The LDP world

3.1. Active Brazilian TLDP effort

The resurrection of our Portuguese-speaking colleagues LDP activity in
Brazil. Check [http://br.tldp.org] http://br.tldp.org.
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3.2. DocBook quick reference card

A quick reference card for users of DocBook is available at [http://
ydirson.free.fr/docbook/docbook.refcard.pdf] http://ydirson.free.fr/docbook/
docbook.refcard.pdf. A compact reference card is also available.
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4. Discussions on TLDP lists

4.1. LDP unreachable author problems

Jean-PhilippeGuérard, the howto translations coordinator for the French
project traduc.org [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6343:200401:
jpgoadlgfalflpipklib] said that traduc.org would like to publish the
Compressed-TCP Sessions using SSH-like tools HOWTO but wanted information
regarding the license under which it was published and was not able to reach
the author. David Lawyer responded saying that The LDP was facing similar
problems and that they would be of little help.
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5. HOWTO contribute to TLDP

The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing free, high
quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to help
TLDP, consider joining <discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org>.

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The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and Y Giridhar
Appaji Nag with help from several other people.