mirror of https://github.com/tLDP/LDP
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<section id="theldp">
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<title>About The LDP</title>
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<para>The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) was started to
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provide new users a way of quickly getting information about a
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particular subject. It not only contains a series of books on
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administration, networking, and programming, but also has a large
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number of smaller works on individual subjects, written by those
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who have used it. If you want to find out about printing, you
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get the <ulink
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url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.html">Printing
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HOWTO</ulink>. If you want to do find out if your Ethernet card
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works with Linux, grab the <ulink
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url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html">Ethernet
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HOWTO</ulink>, and so on.
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</para>
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<para>
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The LDP provides documents to the world in a variety of
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convenient formats and also accepts submissions in a
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number of formats. The current standard for storing
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the source documentation is a format known as DocBook, see <xref
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linkend="docbook-why" />.
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</para>
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<blockquote>
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<attribution>LDP Manifesto located at <ulink
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url="http://www.tldp.org/manifesto.html">http://www.tldp.org/manifesto.html</ulink></attribution>
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<para>The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) is working on
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developing free, high-quality documentation for the GNU/Linux
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operating system. The overall goal of the LDP is to
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collaborate in all of the issues of Linux documentation. This
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includes the creation of <quote>HOWTOs</quote> and <quote>Guides</quote>. We hope to
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establish a system of documentation for Linux that will be
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easy to use and search. This includes the integration of the
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manual pages, info docs, HOWTOs, and other documents.</para>
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</blockquote>
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<para>
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The human readable version goes more like this: The LDP consists
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of a large group of volunteers who are working on documentation
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about Linux and the programs which run on the Linux kernel.
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These documents exist primarily as shorter HOWTOs and longer
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Guides. Both are available from <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/" />.
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This Guide focuses primarily on how to write your own HOWTOs for
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submission to the LDP.
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</para>
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</section>
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