1. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

• David S. Lawyer cleaned up the Plug-and-Play HOWTO. v1.08 clarifies certain explanations, corrects of obsolete statements and has an introduction on hot pluggable devices and USB.
• v1.0.3 of the openMosix HOWTO by Kris Buytaert has minor corrections.
• The folks from traduc.org finished translating the Hardware HOWTO into French.
• The Introduction to Linux Guide v1.14, by Machtelt Garrels, has an extended chapter about I/O redirection and more about Linux groups and related commands. Apart from the new topics, it also contains minor corrections and an updated glossary.
• Miroslav "Misko" Skoric sent in his updates to the FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO, the LILO mini-HOWTO and the Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO.

2. News in The LDP world

• Getting ready for LSM
  

  Jean-Philippe Guérard let us know that members of the Traduc.org team will be attending the 5th Libre Software Meeting from 6 to 10 July. He also hopes that this will be an occasion to strengthen the relationship with TLDP and to replace the dead fr.tldp.org project with Traduc, the currently active French translation effort.

• New mirror sites
  

  This is like the baby-boom, but with Linux now. The whole of Texas is apparently running Linux now, and Canada is on their heels:

  • http://tldp.mirrors.activenodes.com/: set up by Eduardo Valdes in Toronto, Canada;
  • http://ldp.hughesjr.com/: Johnny Hughes is the maintainer for this mirror in Corpus Christi, Texas;
  • http://ldp.edgescape.com/: also in Texas, in Dallas, by Timothy Folks.

3. HOWTO contribute to The LDP

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 <[email protected]>.

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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.