LDP Introduction(n)                       LDP Introduction(n)



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 doc-
       ument 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-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 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(n), xman(n), info(o)

       info pages as read with emacs(s) or info(o)



LDP                         2001-11-15      LDP Introduction(n)