Where Is the Documentation?

Look in the following places, and the sites that mirror them.

• The Linux Documentation Project at http://tldp.org publishes hundreds of documents on using Linux.

• ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/OS/Linux/doc/HOWTO/

• ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/

• ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/

For a list of Linux FTP sites, refer to the answer for: Where Are the Linux FTP Archives?.

If you don't have access to FTP, try the FTP-by-mail servers:

• ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com

• ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk

• ftp-mailer@informatik.tu-muenchen.de

A complete list of HOWTO's is available in the HOWTO-INDEX at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html. The mini-HOWTO's are indexed at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/mini.html.

In addition, translations are available from ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations/ and mirrors worldwide. The HOWTO's and other documentation have been translated into the following languages:

• Chinese (zh)

• Croatian (hr)

• French (fr)

• German (de)

• Hellenic (el)

• Indonesian (id)

• Italian (it)

• Japanese (ja)

• Korean (ko)

• Polish (pl)

• Slovenian (sl)

• Spanish (es)

• Swedish (sv)

• Turkish (tr)

Additional documents are always in preparation. Please get in touch with the coordinators if you are interested in writing one. Contact and submission information is at http://tldp.org/mailinfo.html.

There is also a LDP HOWTO page at http://howto.tucows.org/.

The Guide Series produced by the Linux Documentation Project is available from http://tldp.org. Please read them if you are new to Unix and Linux.

And, of course, a number of people have written documentation independently of the LDP:

• Linux Administrators Security Guide, by Kurt Seifried. http://www.freek.com/lasg/.

• Newbie's Linux Manual. http://tldp.org/nlm/.

• One-Page Linux Manual. http://www.powerup.com.au/~squadron/.

• Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition. http://rute.sourceforge.net

• Short beginners' manual for Linux. Also available in Dutch. http://www.stuwww.kub.nl/people/b.vannunen/linux-man.php3.

• Virtual Frame buffer HOWTO, by Alex Buell. http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk/programming/prog.html

• X11 & TrueType Fonts, by Peter Kleiweg. http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/.

Documentation for kernel developers is on-line: http://kernelbook.sourceforge.net.

To find out about Linux memory management, including performance tuning, see Rik van Riel's Web page at http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/.

The Linux Consultants-Guide has a directory of Linux consultants.

Gary's Encyclopedia lists over 4,000 Linux related links. Its URL is http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html.

There is also a FAQ specifically for the Red Hat Linux distribution, at http://www.best.com/~aturner/RedHat-FAQ/faq_index.html.