1. Documents submitted for review

• The language review of the Linux Daemon HOWTO is completed. You can have a preview in our CVS. Thanks to S. Keeling, who also completed the Beowulf HOWTO language review and the Win+BSD+Linux-Install HOWTO.
• After some discussion, Teus Benschop included input and remarks from the discuss mailinglist in his Bible Translation Software on Linux Using Windows Emulators HOWTO. This does not mean that TLDP is getting religious: this HOWTO purely discusses the technical aspects of the software. Teus also explains why his document is, after all, not conceived as a general translation HOWTO, using the Bible as a practical example.

2. New document proposals

• S. Keeling came up with the idea of a Heavy Mail User HOWTO, which would discuss high E-mail load from the user's point of view, dealing with the problems caused by being subscribed on multiple mailinglists, having low bandwidth and an under-powered processing system. The author awaits your comments on the provisional XML source.
• Jesse Long proposed to write a Bootsplash HOWTO. Bootsplash enables you to configure your backgrounds for your virtual consoles, using the Linux Kernel's frame buffer facilities. V. Alex Brennen was of the opinion that a Framebuffer and BootSplash HOWTO would be a good addition to The LDP collection and pointed us to the Gentoo Forums: Framebuffer and BootSplash HOWTO.

3. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

• On demand of Gerardo Arnaez, the Link-sys WPC11 Mini-HOWTO is obsoleted.
• Artemiy Pavlov skipped a couple of official releases and published v1.5 of the SquashFS HOWTO. This version has improved descriptions, instructions for the 2.6 kernels and lots of comparisons between SquashFS 1.x and 2.x.
• The LVM HOWTO by AJ Lewis, describing Linux' Logical Volume Manager, has updated FAQ entries in v.0.12.
• Jakob Østergaard and Emilio Bueso are co-authoring the Software RAID HOWTO. New in v1.1: instructions on getting and installing the RAID tools, GRUB setup to boot from a RAID 1 and logical volume management on a RAID configuration.
• Machtelt Garrels sent in an updated version of the Bash Guide for Beginners. v1.2 of the document has an added index and more markup in screen sections.

4. News in The LDP world

• New mirrors
  

  It's amazing how many people want a local copy of the LDP collection. These are the new mirrors added last week:

  • http://ldp.opensourcemirrors.org: set up by John Ellis in Austin, Texas, USA.
  • http://mirror.narfum.org/LDP/: by Karel Bemelmans in The Netherlands.
  • http://www.signal42.com/LDP/: by Paul Brown in San Jose, California, USA.
  • http://www.linuxpowered.com/LDP/: by Vidyut Luther in Dallas, Texas, USA.
  • http://cfe.homeunix.org/ldp/: by Ernesto Celis in Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
• Libre Software Meeting 2004
  

  TLDP members Emma Jane Hogbin from Canada, Guylhem Aznar from France and Machtelt Garrels from Belgium will attend the Libre Software Meeting 2004 in Bordeaux, France from the 6th to the 10th of July.

  Meet them and many other Open developers, techies and supporters at this annual conference that will be held for the 5th time. This year's program features among many other topics the first open content management systems meeting, FREE (Free Resources for Education in Europe), high-level programming languages for application development, accessibility and a graphics design contest.

5. Discussions on The LDP lists

• LDP Manifesto
  

  Christopher Priest was trying to understand the purpose of TLDP. David Lawyer explained the original intention and the status.

6. HOWTO contribute to The LDP

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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.