1. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

• Avi Alkalay, Donovan Rebbechi and Hal Burgiss's document http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/ on Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux has been updated for a 10 May 2005 version. Old section-based glossary has been converted to real DocBook glossary. Modernized terms and explanations have been used in the glossary and now also includes concepts as charsets, Unicode and UTF-8.
• Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ has been updated to v3.4. A complete ChangeLog is available at http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/Change.log
• v8.0 of the generated http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lcg/html/ Linux Consultants Guide has been submitted by Joshua Drake to The LDP.

2. Mirror information update

The following are the latest additions to our list of mirrors:

• http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/LDP/ maintained by IIT Madras in Chennai, India and updated daily.
• http://www.davtar.org/LDP maintained by David Brown in Spanish Fork, UT, USA and updated daily.
• http://gcwilhelm.dynalias.com/ldp/ maintained by Günter Wilhelm in Kirschhausen, Hessen, Germany and updated daily.
• http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/ldp/ maintained by LDP Keeper in California, USA and updated daily.
• http://www.tti-grads.net/ldp maintained by webmaster@itt-grads.net in Northern Virginia, USA and updated 2 to 3 times a week.

3. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO

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