This web site is managed and maintained as a voluntary project of the webmasters of www.linux.or.jp, to provide useful informations in utilizing Linux especially from a user's point of view.
The site is running thanks to donated resources provided by JLA and mirror sites. By virtue of CVS, we are working distributively via networks, to keep the contents fresh and update, and of course e-mails on a mailing list and even IRC (Internet Relay Chat) are used to communicate with each other. Most of the pages at our site are written in Japanese only, except for a few pages.
JLA (Japan Linux Association) (formerly known as JLUG (Japan Linux Users Group)) was established on April 1, 1999, to promote the circulation of Linux. JLA's policy is to help "development of Linux". Linux, here we mean the whole system composed of the kernel, libraries and various commands.
On the basis of the above policy, JLA has following objectives.
Outline of JLA's actual activities is as follows:
More concretely;
For those who cannot read Japanese web pages, we provide here a few pointers for Linux related resources.
You can make hyper-links to the contents of this site completely freely, without any kind of limitations. As the freedom of linking informations is one of the most valuable concept of the World Wide Web, we do not afford to beg a permission in making links from this site nor do we make links to a site which requires such permissions.
As there are several mirror sites available as follows, please use them according to your network environment.
We use the word "Linux" to denote the whole computing system including the Linux kernel, various programs and libraries. There is an opinion claiming that such a whole system should be called "GNU/Linux" because in many cases it is realized by employing many tools and libraries provided by the GNU project, a notable point we think.
But here in this site, we think we should pay more attention to the way how Linus Torvalds, the original author of the Linux kernel, calls. So that we let the simple word "Linux" mean the whole computing system.
If you have any questions or suggestions about this site, please send mail to webmaster@linux.or.jp. Since we do not afford to answer general questions about Linux, questions not directly related to our site may be ignored.
We always welcome your contribution to make this site better. Please feel free to contact us. Support for the preparation of English pages is mostly appreciated.
We'd like to pay gratitude for those people who publishes a lot of useful informations freely (in both sense) via the World Wide Web, not to mention for those who invented or developed the Web.