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{{Short description|Online collection of documentation on GNU and Linux}}

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The '''Linux Documentation Project''' (LDP) usedis to bea andormant all-volunteer project that maintains a large collection of [[GNU]] and [[Linux]]-related documentation and publishes the collection online.<ref name="paul">{{cite journal |last=Jones |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Jones (computer technologist) |date=2005-03-22 |title=Strategies and Technologies of Sharing in Contributor-Run Archives |url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/1750 |journal=[[Library Trends]] |volume=53 |issn=0024-2594 |access-date=2019-12-10 |number=}}</ref> It began as a way for [[Hacker (programmer subculture)|hacker]]s to share their [[documentation]] with each other and with their users, and for users to share documentation with each other. Its documents tend to be oriented towards [[experienced user]]s such as professional system administrators, but it also contains tutorials for beginners.

| url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/1750

| title=Strategies and Technologies of Sharing in Contributor-Run Archives

| first=Paul

| last=Jones

| author-link=Paul Jones (computer technologist)

| journal=[[Library Trends]]

| volume=53

| number=4

| date=2005-03-22

| issn=0024-2594

| access-date=2019-12-10}}</ref> It began as a way for [[Hacker (programmer subculture)|hacker]]s to share their [[documentation]] with each other and with their users, and for users to share documentation with each other. Its documents tend to be oriented towards [[experienced user]]s such as professional system administrators, but it also contains tutorials for beginners.

== History ==

The LDP originally began as an [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] site in 1992, but it went on the [[World Wide Web]] at [[Ibiblio|MetaLab]] in 1993.<ref name=paul/> It is believed to have been the first Linux related website ever.{{cn|date=November 2022}}

Today, the LDP serves over 475 documents contributed by even more authors. About a dozen of them are book length, and most of those are available in print from major technical publishers including [[O'Reilly Media|O'Reilly]].

On 1 SeptemberIn 2008, LDP started a''The LDP Wiki''; the [[wiki]] tohas allowsince agone better interactionoffline with the authorslast andentry the users, with a plandating to convert documentation to the wiki format2016.<ref>{{Citecite web

| title = Manifesto for 2010

| url = http://wiki.tldp.org/draft01

| date=2009-05-15

| website = wiki.tldp.org

| access-date = 2019-12-10}}</ref>

and a list of pages to be ported.<ref>{{Cite web

| title = Page_Status - The Linux Documentation Project

| url = http://wiki.tldp.org/Page_Status

| date=2014-10-08

| website = wiki.tldp.org

| access-date = 2019-12-10}}</ref>

Presently (as of July 2020), the LDP is no longer active; the last entry under "Recent Changes" dates from 2016 to 2001-29,<ref>{{cite web

| url = http://wiki.tldp.org/RecentChanges

| title = RecentChanges - The Linux Documentation Project

| access-date = 2020-07-24

| date = 2016-01-29

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240502060641/http://wiki.tldp.org/RecentChanges

| archive-date=2 May 2024

| titlewebsite = Page_Status - The Linux Documentation Project Wiki

}}</ref>

the last guide inserted from Mar 2014.<ref>{{cite web

{{as of|2025|post=,}} the most recent update to an LDP guide was in March 2014.<ref>{{cite web

| url = https://www.tldp.org/guides.html

| title = The Linux Documentation Project: Guides

| access-date = 2020-07-244 April 2025

| date = 2014-03-066 March 2014

| website = Linux Documentation Project

}}</ref>

== Content ==

The LDP published many HowTo"HOWTO" documents, whichthat instruct a user on the specific steps to take to achieve a desired goal.<ref>{{cite web

The LDP published many HowTo documents, which instruct a user on the specific steps to take to achieve a desired goal.<ref>{{cite web

| title=Linux Documentation Project

| url=https://www.linux.com/tutorials/linux-documentation-project/

| publisherwebsite=[[Linux.com]]

| date=2009-03-20

| access-date = 2019-12-10}}</ref>

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* [https://www.tldp.org/ The Linux Documentation Project]

* [https://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/The_LDP_HOWTO_Generator_ng.html The Linux Documentation Project HOWTO Generator]

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