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	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 docu-
       ment 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.


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 mail-
       ing lists are also archived at the LinuxDoc site.


FILES
       Most  distributions  include the HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs in
       the installation
       /usr/doc/	     (most documentation is here)
       /usr/share/doc/	(possibly some documentation here)
       /usr/doc/HOWTO/	(HOWTO files)
       /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/  (mini-HOWTO files)
       /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/ (used by some recent distributions)

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

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



LDP			March 5, 2000				1