Its documents tend to be oriented towards experienced users such as professional system administrators, but it also contains tutorials for beginners.
The LDP originally began as an FTP site in 1992, but it went on the World Wide Web at MetaLab in 1993.
About a dozen of them are book length, and most of those are available in print from major technical publishers including O'Reilly.
[3] Presently (as of July 2020), the LDP is no longer active; the last entry under "Recent Changes" dates from 2016-01-29,[4] the last guide inserted from Mar 2014.
[5] The LDP published many "HOWTO" documents that instruct a user on the specific steps to take to achieve a desired goal.