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)