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6 LDP - Intro to the Linux Documentation Project, with help, guides and
7 documents
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10 The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) provides a variety of free docu‐
11 mentation resources including guides, FAQs, HOWTOs, and man-pages to
12 the Linux community.
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15 The various documents in the LDP archives are maintained by individual
16 authors, and are listed in the beginning of each HOWTO. If you have
17 any questions or inputs to a document we encourage you to contact the
18 authors directly.
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21 The LDP has its own dedicated web site as do many of the various trans‐
22 lations projects which are linked from the main LDP web site at
23 http://www.tldp.org/
24 which you may wish to bookmark.
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27 A web page with status information for manual pages and translations is
28 found at
29 http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/man/
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32 LDP has a number of mailing lists, such as
33 <announce@en.tlpd.org>
35 Announcements from the LDP project
36 <discuss@en.tldp.org>
38 General discussion on the LDP project
39 <docbook@en.tldp.org>
41 Questions about the use of DocBook
42 For subscription information, see the website.
44 If you are interested in DocBook beyond the simple markup of your LDP
46 document, you may want to consider joining one of the OASIS DocBook
47 mailing lists. Please see http://docbook.org/mailinglist/index.html for
48 more information.
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51 Most distributions include the HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs in the installa‐
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53 /usr/doc/ (old place for documentation)
54 /usr/share/doc/ (new place for documentation)
55 /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/ (HOWTO files)
56 /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/mini/ (mini-HOWTO files)
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59 info(1), man(1), xman(1x)
60 info pages as read with emacs(1) or info(1)
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