LDP

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.


WEB PAGES
       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.


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-dis-
       cuss-request@lists.LinuxDoc.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)

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

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



LDP                               2001-11-15             LDP Introduction(ldp)