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LDP Introduction(ldp) LDP Introduction(ldp)
NAME
LDP - Intro to the Linux Documentation Project, with help, guides and
documents
SYNOPSIS
The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) provides a variety of free docu-
mentation 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.
WEBPAGES
The LDP has its own dedicated web site as do many of the various trans-
lations projects which are linked from the main LDP web site at
http://www.LinuxDoc.org/
which you may wish to bookmark.
MANPAGES
A web page with status information for manual pages and translations is
found at
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/man/
MAILINGLISTS
LDP has a number of mailing lists, mostly of use to authors:
<ldp-announce lists.org>
Announcements from the LDP project
<ldp-discusslists.org>
General discussion on the LDP project
To join these lists send a mail with a body of "subscribe" to
<ldp-announce-requestlists.org> or <ldp-dis-
cuss-requestlists.org> respectively. These mailing lists are
also archived at the LinuxDoc site.
FILES
Most distributions include the HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs in the installa-
tion
/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)
SEEALSO
man(1), xman(1x), info(1)
info pages as read with emacs(1) or info(1)
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