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@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Linux ran originally on 386/486/586-based PC's, using the hardware
facilities of the 80386 processor family (TSS segments, et al.) to facilities of the 80386 processor family (TSS segments, et al.) to
implement its features. There are now many ports to other hardware implement its features. There are now many ports to other hardware
platforms. (``<xref linkend="what-ports-to-other-processors-are-there" platforms. (``<xref linkend="what-ports-to-other-processors-are-there"
endterm="what-ports-to-other-processors-are-there">'') endterm="what-ports-to-other-processors-are-there">'')
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
Linus Torvalds is working on a Linux distribution specifically Linus Torvalds is working on a Linux distribution specifically
@ -110,6 +110,16 @@ the Linux Documentation Project Home Page,
</literal></ulink> </literal></ulink>
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
Postings on the <literal>comp.os.linux.*</literal> Usenet News groups,
including the FAQ, are archived on
<ulink url="http://www.deja.com/usenet/">
<literal>http://www.deja.com/usenet/</literal></ulink>. Search for
``<literal>comp.os.linux</literal>'' to retrieve articles from the
Linux News groups. (``<xref
linkend="what-newsgroups"
endterm="what-newsgroups">'')
</para>
<para>
The information in <citetitle>IGS</citetitle> is somewhat dated now. The information in <citetitle>IGS</citetitle> is somewhat dated now.
More up-to-date information about first-time Linux installation is More up-to-date information about first-time Linux installation is
located in the LDP's Installation HOWTO, also located at the LDP Home located in the LDP's Installation HOWTO, also located at the LDP Home
@ -726,591 +736,23 @@ If you don't have access to FTP, try the FTP-by-mail servers at
<literal>mailto:ftp-mailer@informatik.tu-muenchen.de</literal></ulink>. <literal>mailto:ftp-mailer@informatik.tu-muenchen.de</literal></ulink>.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
A complete list of HOWTO's and Mini-HOWTO's is available in the file A complete list of HOWTO's is available in the file
<citetitle>HOWTO-INDEX</citetitle> in the <citetitle>HOWTO-INDEX</citetitle> at
<filename>docs/HOWTO</filename> directory at the FTP sites, and on the <ulink url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html">
Web at <literal>http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html.</literal>
<ulink url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/"> </ulink>
<literal>http://www.linuxdoc.org/</literal></ulink>, but here is a (probably The mini-HOWTO's are indexed at
incomplete) list of topics: <ulink url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/mini.html">
<literal>http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/mini.html.</literal>
</ulink>
</para> </para>
<informaltable frame=none>
<tgroup cols=3>
<colspec colname=c1>
<colspec colname=c2>
<colspec colname=c3>
<spanspec spanname="c1c2" namest=c1 nameend=c2>
<spanspec spanname="c2c3" namest=c2 nameend=c3>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>3Dfx</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>AI-Alife</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>AX25</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Access</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Alpha</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Assembly</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Bash Prompt</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Belgian</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Benchmarking</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Beowulf</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>BootPrompt</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Bootdisk</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Busmouse</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>CD Writing</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>CDROM</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>CVS RCS</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Chinese</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Commercial</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Config</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Consultants</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Cyrillic</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>DNS</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>DOS/Win to Linux</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>DOSEMU</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Danish</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Diskless</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Distribution</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Ecology</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Emacs Beginner</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Emacspeak</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Esperanto</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Ethernet</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Finnish</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Firewall</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Framebuffer</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Ftape</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>GCC</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>German</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Glibc2</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Hardware Compatibility</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Hebrew</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Hellenic</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>INFO-SHEET</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>IP Masquerade</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>IPCHAINS</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>IPX</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>IR</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>ISP Hookup</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Ingres II</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Installation</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Intranet Server</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Italian</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Java-CGI</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Jaz Drive</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Kernel</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>KickStart</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Keyboard and Console</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Kiosk</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>LDAP</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Large Disk</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>LinuxDoc+Emacs+Ispell</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>META-FAQ</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry spanname=c1c2>
<citetitle>Loopback Encrypted File System</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>MGR</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>MILO</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>MIPS</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>MP3</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Mail</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Mail User</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Modem</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Majordomo and MajorCool</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Multi-Disk</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Multicast</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Mutt GnuPGP</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Networking</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>NIS</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Networking Overview</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Optical Disk</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry spanname=c1c2>
<citetitle>Online Troubleshooting Resources</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Oracle</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>PCI</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>PCMCIA</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>PLIP Install</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>PPP</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>PalmOS</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Plug and Play</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Parallel Processing</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Polish</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Portuguese</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>PostgreSQL</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Printing</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Printing Usage</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Quake</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Reading List</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Root RAID</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>SCSI Programming</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>SMB</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>SMP</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>SRM</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Security</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Serbian</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Serial</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Serial Programming</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Slovenian</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Shadow Password</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Software Building</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Software RAID</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry spanname=c1c2>
<citetitle>Software Release Practice</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Sound</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Sound Playing</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Spanish</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>TclTk</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>teTeX</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Text-Terminal</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Thai</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Tips</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Turkish</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>UMSDOS</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>UPS</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>UUCP</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Unicode</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry spanname=c1c2>
<citetitle>Unix and Internet Fundamentals</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>User Group</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>VAR</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>VME</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Vim Editor</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>VPN-Masquerade</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Virtual Services</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>WWW</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>WWWmSQL</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>Wacom Tablet</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>XFree86</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry spanname=c1c2>
<citetitle>XFree86 Video Timings</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>X Window User</citetitle></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
<para> <para>
The following Mini-HOWTO's are available from In addition, translations available from
<ulink url="http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/">
<literal>http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/</literal></ulink>:
</para>
<informaltable frame=none>
<tgroup cols=1>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>3 Button Mouse mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>ADSM Backup mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop (ADSL) mini-HOWTO
</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>AI-Alife mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Advocacy mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Alsa Sound mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Apache SSL PHP/FI frontpage mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Automount mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Backup with MSDOS mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Battery Powered mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Boca mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>BogoMips mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Bridge mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Bridge+Firewall mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Bzip2 mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Cable Modem mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Cipe+Masquerading mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Clock mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Coffee mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Colour ls mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Cyrus IMAP mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>DHCP mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>DPT Hardware RAID mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Diald mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Fax Server mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Firewall Piercing mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>GIS-GRASS mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>GTEK BBS-550 mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>IO Port Programming mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>IP Alias mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>IP Masquerade mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>IP Subnetworking mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>ISP Connectivity mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Install From ZIP mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Kerneld mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>LBX mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>LILO mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Large Disk mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Leased Line mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2 mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Linux+NT-Loader mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Linux+Win95 mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Loadlin+Win95 mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Mac Terminal mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Mail Queue mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Mail2News mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Man Page mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Modules mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Multiboot using LILO mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>NCD X Terminal mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>NFS-Root mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>NFS-Root-Client mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Netrom-Node mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Netscape+Proxy mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Netstation mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>News Leafsite mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Offline Mailing mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>PLIP mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Partition mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Partition Rescue mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Path mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Pre-installation Checklist mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Process Accounting mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Proxy ARP Subnet mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Public Web Browser mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Qmail+MH mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Quota mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>RCS mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>RPM+Slackware mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>RedHat CD mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Remote Boot mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>SLIP-PPP Emulator mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Sendmail Address Rewrite mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Sendmail+UUCP mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Secure POP via SSH mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Small Memory mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Software RAID mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Soundblaster AWE mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>StarOffice mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Term Firewall mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>TkRat mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Token Ring mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Ultra-DMA mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Update mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Upgrade mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>VAIO mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Vesafb mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>VPN mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Visual Bell mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>Windows Modem Sharing mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>WordPerfect mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>X Big Cursor mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>XFree86-XInside mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>xterm Title mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>ZIP Install mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>ZIP Drive mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
<para>
The following HOWTO's are not distributed in all formats because SGML
Tools cannot format their graphics and tables:
</para>
<informaltable frame=none>
<tgroup cols=2>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry><citetitle>The High Availability HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
<entry><citetitle>The Graphics mini-HOWTO</citetitle></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
<para>
In addition, translations of the HOWTO's are available from
<ulink url="ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations/"> <ulink url="ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations/">
<literal>ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations/ <literal>ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations/
</literal></ulink> </literal></ulink>
and mirrors worldwide. Translations in the following languages are available: and mirrors worldwide. The HOWTO's and other documentation have been
translated into the following languages:
</para> </para>
<informaltable frame=none> <informaltable frame=none>
<tgroup cols=3> <tgroup cols=3>
@ -1343,18 +785,11 @@ and mirrors worldwide. Translations in the following languages are available:
</tgroup> </tgroup>
</informaltable> </informaltable>
<para> <para>
More of these documents are always in preparation. Please get in touch Additional documents are always in preparation. Please get in touch
with Timothy Bynum, with the coordinators if you are interested in writing one.
<ulink url="mailto:tjbynum@metalab.unc.edu"> Contact and submission information is at
<literal>mailto:tjbynum@metalab.unc.edu</literal></ulink>, the HOWTO <ulink url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/mailinfo.html">
coordinator, if you are interested in writing one. The file <literal>http://www.linuxdoc.org/mailinfo.html</literal></ulink>.
<ulink url="ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX">
<literal>ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX</literal></ulink>
contains guidelines for writing a HOWTO.
He has a Web page that lists current HOWTO
updates and additions at
<ulink url="http://wallybox.cei.net/~tjbynum/HOWTO/projects">
<literal>http://wallybox.cei.net/~tjbynum/HOWTO/projects</literal></ulink>.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
There is also a LDP HOWTO page at There is also a LDP HOWTO page at
@ -1433,8 +868,8 @@ Gary's Encyclopedia lists over 4,000 Linux related links. Its URL is
<para> <para>
There is also a FAQ specifically for the Red Hat Linux distribution, There is also a FAQ specifically for the Red Hat Linux distribution,
at at
<ulink url="http://www.best.com/~aturner//RedHat-FAQ/faq_index.html"> <ulink url="http://www.best.com/~aturner/RedHat-FAQ/faq_index.html">
<literal>http://www.best.com/~aturner//RedHat-FAQ/faq_index.html <literal>http://www.best.com/~aturner/jRedHat-FAQ/faq_index.html
</literal></ulink>.</para> </literal></ulink>.</para>
<para> <para>
And the Home Page of this FAQ (by default, The Linux FAQ) is And the Home Page of this FAQ (by default, The Linux FAQ) is
@ -4519,21 +3954,21 @@ and so forth, working, can take a good deal of effort.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
Most notebooks currently on the market, for example, use Most notebooks currently on the market, for example, use
``Winmodems,'' which do not work with Linux because of their ``Winmodems,'' which often do not work with Linux because of their
proprietary hardware interfaces. Even notebooks which are certified as proprietary hardware interfaces. Even notebooks which are certified as
"Linux compatible," may not be completely compatible. ``Linux compatible,'' may not be completely compatible.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
The only notebook on the market at the time of this writing that has a Information about installing Winmodems in general is contained
modem that works with Linux is the Sony Vaio. There is an IBM Thinkpad in the <citetitle>Winmodems-and-Linux HOWTO</citetitle>. (Refer
that is certified as compatible with the Red Hat distribution, but to ``<xref linkend="howtos-and-other-documentation"
that apparently doesn't include the modem. endterm="howtos-and-other-documentation">'')
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
You can find the most current information, or ask other users about You can find the most current information, or ask other users about
their notebook experiences, on the linux-laptop mailing list, which is their notebook experiences, on the linux-laptop mailing list, which is
hosted by the <literal>vger.rutgers.edu</literal> server. Refer to hosted by the <literal>vger.rutgers.edu</literal> server. (Refer to
(``<xref linkend="what-mailing-lists-are-there" ``<xref linkend="what-mailing-lists-are-there"
endterm="what-mailing-lists-are-there">'') endterm="what-mailing-lists-are-there">'')
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
@ -4551,17 +3986,17 @@ body of the message to
<literal>mailto:majordomo@www.bm-soft.com</literal></ulink>. <literal>mailto:majordomo@www.bm-soft.com</literal></ulink>.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
There is a Web page about Linux on IBM Thinkpads at
<ulink url="http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/tp-linux/">
<literal>http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/tp-linux/</literal></ulink>.
</para>
<para>
The Linux Laptop home page is at The Linux Laptop home page is at
<ulink url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/"> <ulink url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/">
<literal>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/</literal> <literal>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/</literal>
</ulink>. </ulink>.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
There is a Web page devoted to Linux on IBM Thinkpads at
<ulink url="http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/tp-linux/">
<literal>http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/tp-linux/</literal></ulink>.
</para>
<para>
For information about interfacing peripherals like Zip and CD-ROM For information about interfacing peripherals like Zip and CD-ROM
drives through parallel ports, refer to the Linux Parallel Port Home drives through parallel ports, refer to the Linux Parallel Port Home
Page, at Page, at