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<chapt id="faqinfo">General information about the FAQ
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<sect id="authors">Authors
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<p>The first edition of this FAQ was made and maintained by J.H.M. Dassen
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(Ray) and Chuck Stickelman. Authors of the rewritten &debian; FAQ are
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Susan G. Kleinmann and Sven Rudolph. After them, the FAQ was maintained
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by Santiago Vila and, later, by Josip Rodin.
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The current maintainer is Javier Fernandez-Sanguino.
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<p>Parts of the information came from:
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<list>
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<item>The Debian-1.1 release announcement, by <url name="Bruce Perens" id="http://www.perens.com/">.
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<item>The Linux FAQ, by <url name="Ian Jackson" id="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/">.
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<item><url name="Debian Mailing Lists Archives" id="http://lists.debian.org/">,
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<item>the dpkg programmers' manual and the Debian Policy manual
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(see <ref id="debiandocs">)
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<item>many developers, volunteers, and beta testers, and
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<item>the flaky memories of its authors. :-)
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<item>Kamaraju Kusumanchi's <url name="Choosing a Debian distribution FAQ" id="http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing_distribution.html">, who graciously made it GPL so I could include it as a new chapter (see <ref id="choosing">)
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</list>
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<p>The authors would like to thank all those who helped make this
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document possible.
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<p>All warranties are disclaimed. All trademarks are property of their
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respective trademark owners.
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<sect id="feedback">Feedback
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<p>Comments and additions to this document are always welcome. Please send
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e-mail to <email/doc-debian@packages.debian.org/, or submit a wishlist
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bug report against the
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<package><url name="debian-faq" id="http://bugs.debian.org/debian-faq"></package>
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package.
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<sect id="latest">Availability
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<p>The latest version of this document can be viewed on the Debian WWW
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pages at <url id="http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/">.
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<p>It is also available for download in plain text, HTML, PostScript
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and PDF formats at <url id="http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#faq">.
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Also, there are several translations there.
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<p>This document is available in the <package/debian-faq/ package.
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Translations are available in <package/debian-faq-de/, <package/debian-faq-fr/
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and other packages.
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<p>The original SGML files used to create this document are also available
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in <package/debian-faq/'s source package, or in SVN at:
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<tt>svn://svn.debian.org/svn/ddp/manuals/trunk/debian-faq</tt>
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and <url id="http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/ddp/manuals/trunk/debian-faq/">.
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<sect id="docformat">Document format
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<p>This document was written using the DebianDoc SGML DTD (rewritten
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from LinuxDoc SGML). DebianDoc SGML systems enables us to create files in
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a variety of formats from one source, e.g. this document can be viewed
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as HTML, plain text, TeX DVI, PostScript, PDF, or GNU info.
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<p>Conversion utilities for DebianDoc SGML are available in Debian
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package <package/debiandoc-sgml/.
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