The LDP Weekly News

[Posted May 18, 2005 by cook]
From:		Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <appaji-AT-metalab.unc.edu>
To:		editors-AT-newsforge.com, lwn-AT-lwn.net, news-AT-en.tldp.org
Subject:		The LDP Weekly News - 20050518
Date:		Tue, 17 May 2005 16:50:44 -0400
Cc:		gferg-AT-ibiblio.org, tille-AT-xalasys.com
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 19 & 20
Publication Date : 2005-05-18
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Table of Contents
1. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides
2. Mirror information update
3. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO

1. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

  * Avi Alkalay, Donovan Rebbechi and Hal Burgiss's document 
    [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/ ] on Optimal Use of
    Fonts on Linux has been updated for a 10 May 2005 version. Old
    section-based glossary has been converted to real DocBook glossary.
    Modernized terms and explanations have been used in the glossary and now
    also includes concepts as charsets, Unicode and UTF-8.
   
  * Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide 
    [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ ] has been updated to v3.4. A
    complete ChangeLog is available at 
    [http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/Change.log ]
   
  * v8.0 of the generated [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lcg/html/ ] 
    Linux Consultants Guide has been submitted by
    Joshua Drake to The LDP.
   

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2. Mirror information update

The following are the latest additions to our 
[http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html ] list of mirrors:

  * [http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/LDP/ ] maintained by IIT
    Madras in Chennai, India and updated daily.
   
  * [http://www.davtar.org/LDP ] maintained by David
    Brown in Spanish Fork, UT, USA and updated daily.
   
  * [http://gcwilhelm.dynalias.com/ldp/ ]
    maintained by Günter Wilhelm in Kirschhausen, Hessen, Germany and updated
    daily.
   
  * [http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/ldp/ ]
    maintained by LDP Keeper in California, USA and updated daily.
   
  * [http://www.tti-grads.net/ldp ] maintained by
    webmaster@itt-grads.net in Northern Virginia, USA and updated 2 to 3
    times a week.
   

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3. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO

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