LDP

Copyright (C) 2000 Stein Gjoen Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English.

NAME

LDP - Intro to the Linux Documentation Project, with help, guides and documents

SYNOPSIS

The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) provides a variety of free documentation resources including guides, FAQs, HOWTOs, and man-pages to the Linux community.

AUTHORS

The various documents in the LDP archives are maintained by individual authors, and are listed in the beginning of each HOWTO. If you have any questions or inputs to a document we encourage you to contact the authors directly.

WEB PAGES

The LDP has its own dedicated web site as do many of the various translations projects which are linked from the main LDP web site at:
http://www.tldp.org/

MAN PAGES

A web page with status information for manual pages and translations is found at:
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/man/

MAILING LISTS

LDP has a number of mailing lists, such as
<announce@en.tlpd.org> Announcements from the LDP project
<discuss@en.tldp.org>
General discussion on the LDP project
<docbook@en.tldp.org>
Questions about the use of DocBook
For subscription information, see the website.
If you are interested in DocBook beyond the simple markup of your LDP document, you may want to consider joining one of the OASIS DocBook mailing lists. Please see http://docbook.org/mailinglist/index.html for more information.

FILES

Most distributions include the HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs in the installation
/usr/doc/ (old place for documentation)
/usr/share/doc/ (new place for documentation)
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/ (HOWTO files)
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/mini/ (mini-HOWTO files)

SEE ALSO

info(1), man(1), R xman (1x)
info pages as read with emacs(1) or info(1)