1. New documents @ TLDP

As Eric S. Raymond, author of the Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO puts it, this document explains "how to get various proprietary and restricted multimedia Damned Things working" under Fedora Core. If you have problems getting MPEG, Flash, Java applications, RealMedia or MP3 to run, here's the place to start. Eric documents the standard tools and various free packages that you can add to your system.

2. New document proposals

• Kai Schlachter had troubles upgrading his glibc. He documented the procedure so as other people won't suffer like he did. He wants to submit his Glibc HOWTO to our collection and awaits your comments. David Horton already made some suggestions.
• Michael Schlenstedt proposed to write a Linux ISDN HOWTO. Michael's document would give some background information about ISDN and Linux and explain howto handle installations of i4l as well as capi. A detailed table of contents was posted to the discuss list.
• Steve Peace proposed to document the procedure for installing and configuring qmail-scanner and ClamAV virus scanner software as a HOWTO for TLDP. A draft version is available for comment.

3. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

• The Hardware HOWTO, by Steven Pritchard, has finally been updated after a long period of inactivity. Version 3.2.2 contains information on the Athlon64 CPUs; the video card section has been updated; notes are added for the IDE RAID 3ware 8000-series cards; there is more info about SATA (serial ATA or disk controllers in plain English) and a configuration update for Western Digital drives.
• Jorge Godoy, David Merrill, Mark Komarinski and Emma Jane Hogbin help you to better help us with v4.1 of the LDP Author Guide. This version has updates on the license recommendations for docs that you submit to TLDP.
• Revision 1.1 of Lars Strand's Mobile-IPv6-HOWTO comes with information on "Traveling through several foreign LAN's" and "Returning home" and a few other minor document re-structuring changes.

4. News in The LDP world

5. HOWTO contribute to TLDP

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