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)