1. News in The LDP world

• Local links
  

  Several people already pointed out that our docs page has absolute pointers back to iBiblio, whether you use the main site or a mirror. Because the mirrors do have the complete collection, having absolute links is rather pointless. The issue is now being dealt with and local links will be made available soon.

• The LDP history
  

  Greg Ferguson put up an article TLDP history that was published earlier in LinuxJournal. Some feedback, however, still needs to be incorporated to make it accurately reflect what happened during the last 10 years.

• Unmaintained Documents
  

  Guido Gonzato sent in a mail indicating that he doesn't have the time to maintain the Configuration HOWTO, From DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO, From VMS to Linux HOWTO and the Saving Space mini-HOWTO. If you would like to maintain any of these documents, send a mail to the <[email protected]> list. Thank you Guido for writing and maintaining these documents so far.

• OpenSource XML authoring tools
  

  Saqib Ali is covering VEX and ButterflyXML in his article for Free Software Magazine. The article might be interesting for HOWTO authors and editors. The HTML version is at http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_03/practical_applications_xml/.

2. New documents @ The LDP

• Trevor Harmon finalized the TimeSys Linux Install mini-HOWTO, which is a quick-start guide for installing TimeSys Linux on a typical desktop workstation. In the words of the author "TimeSys Linux is a derivative of Linux created by TimeSys Corporation. It includes a fully preemptible kernel, a constant-time scheduler, fully schedulable interrupt handlers, fully schedulable soft-IRQs, and reduced interrupt disable times. These features reduce latency to a point where TimeSys Linux can be used as a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS).".

3. Documents submitted for review

• Nicolas Dufour prepares submission of the Linux Aviation HOWTO, listing useful software for private, commercial and military pilots, airlines, airports and anything having to do with aeronautics.
• Machtelt Garrels proposes new versions of the flowcharts explaining TLDP workings. Yaroslaw Fedevych helped making them more accessible by re-styling the Publishing Process Flowchart and the Maintenance Process Flowchart. Yaroslaw's versions are put forward for publication.

4. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

• David Ranch updated the Linux IP Masquerade HOWTO. It has now more comments in the example rulesets. Apart from that lots of polishing has been done to streamline this HOWTO. The the rc.firewall-iptables-stronger ruleset was updated to fix a typo.
• Avi Alkalay updated the Managing Accurate Date and Time to v1.0.9. This update includes a link to french translation.

5. Mirror information update

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

• http://xsteadfastx.is-a-geek.org/LDP by Marvin Preuss, in Wolfsburg, Germany.
• http://tldp.attrition.jp/ by Ryan, in Tokyo, Japan. This is our first Japanese mirror, thank you Ryan!
• http://tldp.corporacionlinux.cl by Rodrigo Henriquez M., in Santiago, Chili.
• http://www.linux.org.py/LDP/ by Oliver Schultze, the first mirror in Paraguay. It is located in the city of Asuncion. Thank you, Oliver!
• http://ldp.mirrorplus.org by the admins of MirrorPlus, Munich, Germany.
• http://debian.phys.hacettepe.edu.tr/LDP by Mustafa Bayramgil, in Ankara, Turkey.
• http://ldp.mirrors.asianbaptist.org/ by Matthew Isam, first mirror in the state of Oklahoma, USA. Congratulations!
• http://viveka.math.hr/LDP/ by Vedran Sego, in Zagreb, Croatia. First Croatian mirror, well done!
• http://viveka.math.hr/LDP/ by Marius David, Timisoara, Romania.
• http://gcwilhelm.dynalias.com/ldp/ by Gunter Wilhelm, Kirschhausen, Germany.

6. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO

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