1. News in The LDP world

• TLDP job descriptions
  

  The job descriptions that David Horton so diligently prepared for TLDP are now online a http://www.tldp.org/jobdesc/. thanks to David for his efforts and to those volunteers that contributed content to David.

• The LDP tool prototyping
  

  Stein Gjoen silently hacks away at tools that are useful for The LDP. Where there may not be a lot of buzz about the same, much of Stein's TLDP work is located at his home page http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/tarpl.html. Stein indicated that the web correlator script is now on line and (somewhat) documented, but not very user friendly. The program is about 150 lines of AWK script, takes in apache logs and creates a HTML report. These reports can be huge both in terms of size on paper as well as number of bytes. Sample is about 180 KB.

• TLDP author database
  

  Martin Wheeler let us know that the server the http://startext.demon.co.uk/tldp/index.html TLDP author database runs on is going off-line soon for a few weeks for a re-vamp, and he hasn't had the time to transfer it to another machine for the interim.

2. Discussions on The LDP lists

• HOWTOs in Debian Sarge
  

  Now that Debian has entered freeze and is on the verge of release, Stein Gjoen was wondering which documents from TLDP will be included and how recent these are. Rick Moen replied pointing Stein to http://packages.debian.org/testing/doc/doc-linux-text, http://packages.debian.org/testing/doc/doc-linux-html and http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/doc-linux.html. Frank Lichtenheld, the Debian package maintainer for the HOWTOs added that he doesn't plan any further updates until the release since only a few HOWTOs have been changed since the last one, but that can change if the release gets delayed or there are many HOWTO updates in the next few days. Andrew M.A. Cater on the thread indicated the non-free status of GNU Free Documentation License for Debian.

3. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

• The Compaq Remote Insight Board HOWTO http://linux.shiningdeath.de/howto-de-compaq_remote_install.shtml has been translated to German by Stephan Reuter.
• David A. Ranch's http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/ Linux IP Masquerade HOWTO has been updated to a May 22, 2005 version. This update has updated the rc.firewall-iptables-stronger ruleset to 0.87s, removed the unused drop-and-logit chain and updated the Multiple-IPs FAQ entry a bit.
• Machtelt Garrels updated the http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide, to v1.18. The changes in Tille's words "note about pagers, lots of clarifications, removed quite some RedHat-centric paragraphs, reviewed and updated lots in sound and video, removed xmms-mp3 stuff, added time zone info because I was just dealing with date and time, contrary to the title of the section, removed Mandrake refs."
• The http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/ The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide authored by Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz has been updated to v2.6.1.

4. Mirror information update

In case you intend to mirror The LDP collection, please use this command:

rsync -rlptv --delete ftp.ibiblio.org::ldp_mirror /your_path_to/LDP

Please send an email to <feedback@en.tldp.org> in case there is a problem, or if you successfully mirror the collection, let us know so that we can list you as a mirror.

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

• http://snolug.ghostwheel-systems.cc/LDP maintained by snolug-admin@ghostwheel-systems.cc in Marysville, WA, U.S.A., and updated daily.
• http://tldp.tuxhilfe.de/ maintained by mirrors@tuxhilfe.de in Berlin, Germany and updated daily at 15:37 CE(S)T..

5. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO

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