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The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
Chapter 15 - General information about the FAQ

15.1 Authors

The first edition of this FAQ was made and maintained by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) and Chuck Stickelman. Authors of the rewritten Debian GNU/Linux FAQ are Susan G. Kleinmann and Sven Rudolph. After them, the FAQ was maintained by Santiago Vila. Current maintainer is Josip Rodin.

Parts of the information came from:

• The Debian-1.1 release announcement, by Bruce Perens.

• The Linux FAQ, by Ian Jackson.

• Debian Mailing Lists Archives,

• the dpkg programmers' manual and the Debian Policy manual (see What other documentation exists on and for a Debian system?, Section 11.1)

• many developers, volunteers, and beta testers, and

• the flaky memories of its authors. :-)

The authors would like to thank all those who helped make this document possible.

All warranties are disclaimed. All trademarks are property of their respective trademark owners.

15.2 Feedback

Comments and additions to this document are always welcome. Please send e-mail to doc-debian@packages.debian.org, or submit a wishlist bug report against the doc-debian package.

15.3 Availability

The latest version of this document can be viewed on the Debian WWW pages at http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/.

It is also available for download in plain text, HTML and PostScript formats at the Debian FTP server and any of its mirrors in the directory doc/FAQ/.

The original SGML files used to create this document are also available in doc-debian's source package, or in CVS at: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-doc/ddp/manuals.sgml/faq

15.4 Document format

This document was written using the DebianDoc SGML DTD (rewritten from LinuxDoc SGML). DebianDoc SGML systems enables us to create files in a variety of formats from one source, e.g. this document can be viewed as HTML, plain text, TeX DVI, PostScript, PDF, or GNU info.

Conversion utilities for DebianDoc SGML are available in Debian package debiandoc-sgml.

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