1. Documents submitted for review

• Prospective authors for The LDP are usually pointed to the excellent LDP Author Guide. However, the guide is big and has a lot of details. David Laywer's Draft of very short Authors Guide is up for review, and intends to be a quick guide to new authors.

2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

• Ari Mäkelä published v2.0.29 of the Finnish HOWTO, with more details on OpenOffice on Debian and the choice of fonts.
• The v1.3 of the Samba Authenticated Gateway, by Ricardo Alexandre Mattar, has extended information on how to update your firewall configuration as users connect, including a link to a script that takes the pain off you for implementing this feature.
• Howard Shane documents new models and drivers in v1.6 of the Webcam HOWTO.
• Getting a bit old-fashioned but still wide-spread: IRC. In his IRC HOWTO, Frédéric L.W. Meunier explains the basics and lists available Linux applications.
• Kurt Swendson asked us to archive the existing version of the Beowulf HOWTO, and replace it with a completely revised Beowulf-HOWTO.
• Peter Bieringer did a few grammatical correction and incorporated minor review comment in the IPv6 IPsec section for v0.48 of his Linux + IPv6 HOWTO.
• Bryan Henderson updated the example module for 2.6 kernel and mentions dmesg as a way to see kernel messages in his Module HOWTO and also added info about the dangers of unloading modules. There is a link to the LKMPG.

3. News in The LDP world

• Linux MIPS HOWTO
  

  Ralf Bächle announced the replacement of the Linux MIPS HOWTO by a wiki. He is looking for advise on translation of the document.

• XML Editors and conversions
  

  Saqib Ali is working on a list of XML editors categorized by WYSIWYG, WYSIWYM and Text based. Secondary categorization is done by dividing the editors in Freeware, OpenSource and commercial groups.

  Recently we got a couple of documents written in OpenOffice, which needed to be converted to DocBook XML. There are a couple of possibilities to get there:

  • First convert the file to HTML using OO features, then optionally run it through tidy and then through html2db.
  • There is a tool which is called OOo2dbk and that can be downloaded from http://www.indesko.com/sites/fr/telechargements/ooo2dbk___du_docbook/view.

4. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO

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