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http://www
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3 Documentation Conventions
The following typographicalconventionsare used in this manual:
• /etc/passwd
: directorynames and filenames
•
placeholder
:replace
placeholder
with the actual value
• PATH
: the environmentvariable PATH
• ls
,
--help
: commands,options, and parameters
• user
: users or groups
• [Alt],[ Alt] +[ F1]: a key to press or a key combination;keys are shownin upper-
case as on a keyboard
• File, File > SaveAs: menuitems,buttons
• DancingPenguins(ChapterPenguins, ↑AnotherManual): This is a referenceto
a chapterin another manual.
4 About the Making of This Manual
This book is writtenin Novdoc, a subset of DocBook(see
http://www.docbook.org
).
The XML source files were validatedby
xmllint
, processed by
xsltproc
, and converted
into XSL-FO using a customizedversion of Norman Walsh's stylesheets.The final PDF
is formattedthrough XEP from RenderX.The open source tools and the environment
usedto build this manual are availablein the package
susedoc
that is shippedwith
openSUSE.
5 Source Code
The source code of openSUSEis publicly available. The completesources for openSUSE
products are available from the repositoriesat
http://download.opensuse.org/source/
distribution/
. To retrievethe exact source code of a single package, proceedas
described at
http://en.opensuse.org/Exact_source_code
.
6Acknowledgments
With a lot of voluntary commitment,the developersof Linux cooperateon a global
scale to promote the developmentof Linux. We thankthem for theirefforts—this
distributionwould not exist withoutthem. Furthermore, we thank Frank Zappa and
Pawar. Special thanks,of course,goes to Linus Torvalds.
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