# General information about the FAQ

## 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; FAQ are Susan G. Kleinmann and Sven Rudolph. After them, the FAQ was maintained by Santiago Vila and, later, by Josip Rodin. The current maintainer is Javier Fernandez-Sanguino.

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 debiandocs),

- many developers, volunteers, and beta testers,

- the flaky memories of its authors. :-)

- and the Choosing a Debian distribution FAQ, which Kamaraju Kusumanchi graciously released under the GPL, so it could be included as a new chapter (see choosing).

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.

## 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 `debian-faq` package.

## Availability

The latest version of this document can be viewed on the Debian WWW pages at .

It is also available for download in plain text, HTML, and PDF formats at . Also, there are several translations there.

This document is available in the `debian-faq` package. Translations are available in `debian-faq-de`, `debian-faq-fr` and other packages.

The original XML files used to create this document are also available in `debian-faq`'s source package, or in GIT at: `git@salsa.debian.org:ddp-team/debian-faq.git` and .

## Document format

This document was written using the DocBook XML DTD. This system 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.