LDP(7)							 Miscellaneous Information Manual						    LDP(7)

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), xman(1x)

       info pages as read with emacs(1) or info(1)

LDP
								    2001-11-15								    LDP(7)