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The '''Linux Documentation Project''' (LDP) is an all-volunteer project that maintains a large collection of [[GNU]] and [[Linux]]-related documentation and publishes the collection online.<ref name=paul>Library{{cite Trends – March 22, 2005 - Strategies and technologies of sharing in contributor-run archives.- Jones, Paul [http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4454575/Strategies-and-technologies-of-sharing.html], part 1, retrieved 2008-09-29</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.journal

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

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

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| 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 ==

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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 September 2008, LDP started a [http://wiki.tldp.org [wiki]] to allow a better interaction with the authors and the users, with a plan to convert documentation to the wiki format<ref>{{Cite web
| title = Manifesto for 2010
| url = http://wiki.tldp.org/draft01
| date=2009-05-15
| website = wiki.tldp.org
|accessdate access-date = 20152019-12-2810}}</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|accessdate = 2015-12-28}}</ref>

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

== Content ==

The LDP publishes 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/ldptutorials/linux-index documentation-project/
| publisher=[[Linux.com ]]
|accessdate=13 February 2013 |url-statusdate=dead |archive2009-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130204081408/http://www.linux.com/ldp03-index20
| |archiveaccess-date= 4 February 2013 |df= 2019-12-10}}</ref> These goals are sometimes very specific, such as configuring a particular modem, and sometimes very broad, such as how to administer a [[computer network|network]] for an [[internet service provider|ISP]].

Very broad topics are covered in the guides, which are book-length documents, usually on broad subjects such as security or networking.