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From:	 David Merrill <david@lupercalia.net>
To:	 LDP Weekly News <news@linuxdoc.org>, Linux Weekly News <lwn@lwn.net>,
	 Michael Hall <mhall@internet.com>
Subject: LDPWN for 2002-03-05
Date:	 Wed, 6 Mar 2002 11:24:11 -0500

LDP Weekly News
2002-03-05

   by David Merrill

New Version of the GFDL

   The Free Software Foundation is working on a new version of the GNU
   Free Documentation License. The new version of the license clarifies
   some wording with respect to invariant sections and front matter, and
   places limits on their size and the ways they can be used.

   We recommend for compatibility reasons the GNU FDL or the OPL v1.0
   with options A and B not applied. OPL v2 does not meet our
   requirements. Some authors using the GFDL may find that the newest
   version adds too many restrictions, especially on non technical
   sections content or cover pages content. However, the LDP considers
   licensing to be the author's choice, not the LDP's. We have some
   general guidelines about licensing, because of our need to freely
   distribute documents, but we do not require any specific license. Our
   Manifesto specifies the characteristics a license must fulfill. LDP
   authors are free to choose the license they want, as long as the basic
   guidelines from our manifesto are respected.

   The LDP will remain neutral in license choice or license version
   questions, as long as the LDP manifesto is respected. Therefore, we
   suggest anyone using the GFDL reads
   http://www.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html and makes their own decision
   about whether or not to adopt the new version of the GFDL. That page
   includes a diff which shows the differences between each version of
   the GFDL.

New Documents

     * Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-H
       OWTO/
       Version 0.02, Charles Curley, ccurley@trib.com
     * The Linux Network Administrators Guide, 2nd Edition (Spanish
       Translation)
       http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/LDP/nag2/translations/es
       Version , Olaf Kirch, Terry Dawson

Updated Documents

     * Apache Overview HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Apache-Overview-HOWTO.html
       Version 0.7, Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, ridruejo@apache.org
     * Authentication Gateway HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Authentication-Gateway-HOWTO/
       Version 0.04, Nathan Zorn, zornnh@musc.edu
     * Euro Character Support mini HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Euro-Char-Support/
       Version 1.0.1, Ari Makela, hauva@arska.org
     * Finnish-HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Finnish-HOWTO.html
       Version 2.0.11, Ari Makela, hauva@iki.fi
     * Linux IPv6 HOWTO
       http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/
       Version 0.22, Peter Bieringer
     * Linux Medicine-HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Medicine-HOWTO.html
       Version 2.0.3, Gerardo Arnaez, garnaez@yahoo.com
     * Masquerading Made Simple HOWTO
       http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Masquerading-Simple-HOWTO/
       Version 0.07, John Tapsell, tapselj0@cs.man.ac.uk, Matthias Grimm,
       DeadBull@gmx.net, Thomas Spellman, thomas@resonance.org
     * Palm OS Desktop HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO.html
       Version 2.0.1, Sean Buckley, sean@redbug.uklinux.net
     * Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/
       Version 2.95, David A. Wheeler
     * Snort Setup for Statistics HOWTO
       http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Snort-Statistics-HOWTO/
       Version 1.01, Sandro Poppi, spoppi@gmx.de
     * Text-Terminal-HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html
       Version 1.29, David S. Lawyer, dave@lafn.org

Unmaintained Documents

   These documents have been abandoned by their maintainers and many of
   them have not been updated in some time. If you're willing to become
   the maintainer for one of them, please join the LDP discussion list at
   lists.linuxdoc.org and post a message indicating your interest.

     * Battery Powered Linux Mini-HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Battery-Powered.html
       Version
     * Brief Introduction to Alpha Systems and Processors
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Alpha-HOWTO.html
       Version 0.11
     * Enterprise Java for Linux HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Enterprise-Java-for-Linux-HOWTO.html
       Version 0.2
     * HOW-TO for inHouse IntraNet
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Netscape+Proxy.html
       Version
     * Installing Linux on ZIP disk using ppa ZIP Drive Mini-Howto
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Install-From-ZIP.html
       Version 0.7
     * LINUX PLIP MINI-HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/PLIP.html
       Version 2.1
     * Linux Benchmarking HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Benchmarking-HOWTO.html
       Version 0.12
     * Linux SMP HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMP-HOWTO.html
       Version 1.12.1
     * Linux Swap Space Mini-HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Swap-Space.html
       Version 1.42
     * Linux Threads Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/Threads-FAQ/
       Version
     * Linux simple fax printer server mini-HOWTO (faxsrv-mini-HOWTO)
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Fax-Server.html
       Version 1.0
     * NFS-Root Mini-Howto
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/NFS-Root.html
       Version 8
     * News Leafsite mini-HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/News-Leafsite.html
       Version 0.4
     * SoundBlaster AWE 32/64 HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.html
       Version 1.2
     * Spanish Linux HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Spanish-HOWTO.html
       Version 0.1
     * The Ftape FAQ
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/Ftape-FAQ.html
       Version 0.2
     * The Hebrew HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hebrew-HOWTO.html
       Version 0.4
     * The LBX Mini-HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LBX.html
       Version 1.04
     * The Linux ""Linux-DOS-Win95-OS2"" mini-HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2.html
       Version 1.3.1
     * The Linux 3Dfx HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/3Dfx-HOWTO.html
       Version 1.16
     * The Linux Busmouse HOWTO
       http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/Busmouse-
       HOWTO/
       Version 2.0
     * The Linux Intranet Server HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Intranet-Server-HOWTO.html
       Version 2.12
     * The dosemu HOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DOSEMU-HOWTO.html
       Version
     * UMSDOS HOW-TO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/UMSDOS-HOWTO.html
       Version 1.2
     * Visible bell mini-Howto
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Visual-Bell.html
       Version 2.3
     * X11-big-cursor MINIHOWTO
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/X-Big-Cursor.html
       Version 2
     * mini-HOWTO install qmail with MH
       http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Qmail+MH.html
       Version 1.4

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-- 
David C. Merrill                         http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project                   david@lupercalia.net
Collection Editor & Coordinator            http://www.linuxdoc.org

And it came to pass in the third year of the Desert War that Paul Muad'Dib
lay alone in the Cave of Birds beneath the kiswa hangings of an inner
cell. And he lay as one dead, caught up in the revelation of the Water of
Life, his being translated beyond the boundaries of time by the poison
that gives life. Thus was the prophecy made true that the Lisan al-Gaib
might be both dead and alive.
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