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 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.LinuxDoc.org/
       which you may wish to bookmark.

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, mostly of use to authors:

       <ldp-announce@lists.LinuxDoc.org>
	      Announcements from the LDP project

       <ldp-discuss@lists.LinuxDoc.org>
	      General discussion on the LDP project

       To  join these lists send a mail with a body of "subscribe" to <ldp-announce-request@lists.LinuxDoc.org> or <ldp-discuss-request@lists.Lin-
       uxDoc.org> respectively. These mailing lists are also archived at the LinuxDoc site.

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

       man(1), xman(1x), info(1)

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

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								    2001-11-15						     LDP Introduction(ldp)