LDP(7)									LDP(7)



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.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

       
	      Announcements from the LDP project

       
	      General discussion on the LDP project

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

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



LDP				  2001-11-15				LDP(7)