LDP Weekly News

TLDP Weekly News

Issue Number : 19
Publication Date : 2003-09-03
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Table of Contents
1. New documents
    1.1. Fresh@LDP
    1.2. Submitted for review
   
   
2. Updates
    2.1. HOWTOs
    2.2. Guides
   
   
3. Feedback and Contributions

1. New documents

1.1. Fresh@LDP

  * Salvador J. Peralta sent in a new mini-HOWTO titled Scripting Graphical
    Commands with Tcl/Tk Mini-HOWTO. The document provides a cookbook-style
    tutorial introduction to Tcl and Tk, a scripting language and graphical
    toolkit that were designed to accomplish that very task.
   

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1.2. Submitted for review

  * David Braun submitted a document called the [http://lists.tldp.org/
    index.cgi?5:mss:5672:200309:mdeognklflhdfhdhjjcb] Disk Encryption HOWTO.
    He awaits your comments. We also have a [http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/
    Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO.html] Loopback Encrypted Filesystem
    HOWTO in our collection
   
  * Mirko Lindner sent in the [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5673:
    200309:kdeakebfldkpchflkeko] man page for the sk98lin driver
   
  * Peter Bieringer revised his [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5679:
    200309:flkfhghamjjaiaopehfo] Linux+IPv6 HOWTO, which will be v1.30 at the
    next update.
   
  * Daniel Nofftz sent in [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5687:200309:
    oghdkidgplopjnohfble] some minor updates (updated links) for the Athlon
    Powersaving HOWTO.
   
  * Daniel Quintiliani did not get much reviews yet, so give him a hand with
    his [http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?5:mss:5694:200309:
    jlhemghkmopilehhclgh] Xnews under Linux HOWTO.
   

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2. Updates

2.1. HOWTOs

Short reading-list this week:

  * We received news from Ian Ward, who published v1.1 of his [http://
    tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/] Debian and Windows
    Shared Printing mini-HOWTO.
   

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2.2. Guides

Two items from the Spanish TLDP site:

  * The [http://es.tldp.org/Manuales-LuCAS/doc-progmodlinux/] Linux Kernel
    Module Programming Guide is ready.
   
  * The Guia del Usario de Ruby should be [http://es.tldp.org/Manuales-LuCAS/
    doc-guia-usuario-ruby/] here according to [http://es.tldp.org/] http://
    es.tldp.org/, but the work appears to be in progress.
   

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3. Feedback and Contributions

 You can help The Linux Documentation Project by:

  * Reviewing one of the draft versions of the [http://www.tldp.org/authors/
    inprogress.html] documents in progress.
   
  * Picking up one of the [http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html]
    unmaintained documents.
   
  * Providing assistance with [http://www.tldp.org/authors/markup.html]
    markup.
   

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with a link to the LDP? Completed the translation of any HOWTO? Know of any
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us by sending in links and information at <feedback@en.tldp.org>.

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