1. News in The LDP world

• Debian acknowledges GFDL
  

  Debian announced last week that the GNU Free Documentation License are considered free if they do not contain any invariant sections. This is good news for the LDP, as our documents can now be included into the Debian and Debian-based distributions. Note that this does not automatically mean that the entire LDP collection will be included. Authors who want their documents to be included in the Debian documentation should check their licenses.

• New Weekly News Editor
  

  We are happy to announce that Hans Bol has volunteered to take over the weekly news editing job from Y Giridhar Appaji Nag. Hans has been following the mailing-lists for quite some time and found editing our newsletter an ideal opportunity to help.

2. Discussions on The LDP lists

• Feedback wanted on Windows-to-Linux HOWTO:
  

  Omari Norman is willing to upgrade the DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO. Alex Nordstrom had some advice. For instance that people first start to use free software that is available on both platforms. When people are more convenient with the software the jump into the Linux world is not that big.

• TLDP author profiles - change of address:
  

  Greg Ferguson let us know that the address has changed for the TLDP Author Profiles database. It now can be found at : http://avalonix.co.uk/tldp/

3. Documents submitted for review

• Fabio Busatto's TCP Keepalive HOWTO. This document describes the TCP keepalive implementation in the Linux kernel, introducing main general concepts and pointing both to system configuration and software development.
• A reviewer is searched for to take a look at the following HOWTO: Subversion, SSH, TortoiseSVN Windows Client With Fedora Core 4 Linux HOWTO. Please contact editors@en.tldp.org
• Daniel Coletti wrote an article on Organizing a FLOSS Conference HOWTO. A reviewer is being searched.

4. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

• Anthony Lissot's Linux Partition HOWTO at v3.5
• Ian Hakes's DB2 Universal Database Version 8.2 for Linux HOWTO at v1.1.7
• Rohit Agarwal's Libdc1394 Library Support for IEEE 1394 Cameras HOWTO at v1.0
• David S. Lawyer's Serial HOWTO at v2.24
• David S. Lawyer's Plug-and-Play-HOWTO at v1.14
• David S. Lawyer's Text-Terminal-HOWTO at v1.38
• Konstantin Boldyshev's Linux Assembly HOWTO at v0.6g
• Steven A's Linux Quake How-To at v2.02
• Wim van Dorst's BogoMips mini-HOWTO. at version 38
• Werner Heuser's Linux Ecology-HOWTO at v 0.14.
• Aaron Isotton's C++ dlopen mini HOWTO at v 1.10.

5. Mirror information update

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

• http://www.quadrunner.com/LDP maintained by Colin in Sacramento, CA. USA and updated daily.
• http://ldp.oss-mirror.org maintained by Ralf Uhlemann in Dublin, Ireland and updated daily.
• http://ldp.linux-mirror.org maintained by Michael Mettmann in Cologne/Koeln - Germany - Europe and updated daily
• http://www.securehost.com/mirror/LDP/ maintained by R. Douglas and J. Harrison in Nassau, Bahamas and updated daily
• http://ldp.lescampeurs.org maintained by Charles Viard in Paris, France and updated daily
• http://mirror.adult-pilot.net/LDP/ in New York, USA and updated daily
• http://tldp.mirror.qualispace.com/ maintained by Nitesh N in Westerville, OH USA and updated daily
• http://mirrors.stormbox.info/ldp maintained by Richard in Singapore and updated 4 times a day
• ftp://ftp.linux.edu.lv/mirrors/LDP/ in Riga, Latvia and updated daily
• http://tldp.paracoda.com maintained by Hossam in Quebec, Canada and updated daily
• http://ldp.conservativethinking.com/ maintained by Chris Short in Chicago, USA and updated twice a day
• http://www.studioinf.com/LDP/ maintained by Andrea Gedda in Nurnberg, Germany and updated daily
• http://ldp.cdmon.org/ in Alicante, Spain and updated weekly
• http://ldp.ods.org maintained by Emilio Petrozzi in Verona, Wisconsin USA and updated daily
• http://LDP.tantrum.org maintained by Orlando in Clifton, NJ USA and updated daily
• http://download.nextag.com/LDP/ maintained by Trieu Nguyen in Santa Clara, USA and updated daily

6. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO

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