at the bottom of each page in the online documentation or go to http://www
.novell.com/documentation/feedback.html and enter your comments there.
3 Documentation Conventions
The following typographical conventions are used in this manual:
•
/etc/passwd: directory names and lenames
•
placeholder
: replace
placeholder
with the actual value
•
PATH: the environment variable PATH
•
ls, --help: commands, options, and parameters
•
user: users or groups
• [Alt], [Alt] + [F1]: a key to press or a key combination; keys are shown in upper-
case as on a keyboard
• File, File > Save As: menu items, buttons
• Dancing Penguins (Chapter Penguins, ↑Another Manual): This is a reference to
a chapter in another manual.
4 About the Making of This Manual
This book is written in Novdoc, a subset of DocBook (see http://www.docbook.org).
The XML source les were validated by xmllint, processed by xsltproc, and converted
into XSL-FO using a customized version of Norman Walsh's stylesheets. The nal PDF
is formatted through XEP from RenderX. The open source tools and the environment
used to build this manual are available in the package susedoc that is shipped with
openSUSE.
5 Source Code
The source code of openSUSE is publicly available. Refer to http://en.opensuse.org/
Source_code for download links and more information.
6 Acknowledgments
With a lot of voluntary commitment, the developers of Linux cooperate on a global
scale to promote the development of Linux. We thank them for their eorts—this
distribution would not exist without them. Furthermore, we thank Frank Zappa and
Pawar. Special thanks, of course, goes to Linus Torvalds.
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