<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >About this Document</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Designing Integrated High Quality Linux Applications" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Red Hat, About the Filesystem Structure" HREF="redhat.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="appendix" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Designing Integrated High Quality Linux Applications</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="redhat.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="appendix" ><H1 CLASS="appendix" ><A NAME="about">B. About this Document</H1 ><P >This document must be distributed under the terms of <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html" TARGET="_top" >GNU Free Documentation License</A >, which makes him sufficiently free. Everybody in invited to contribute to his content and ideas.</P ><P >Copyright 2002, Avi Alkalay.</P ><P >This document is published in the following locations: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/HighQuality/" TARGET="_top" >Main distribution</A > [<A HREF="http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/HighQuality/HighQuality.pt.html" TARGET="_top" >pt_BR</A >] [<A HREF="http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/HighQuality/highquality.tar.gz" TARGET="_top" >XML Source</A >]</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/HighQuality-Apps-HOWTO/" TARGET="_top" >LinuxDoc, as a HOWTO</A > [<A HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/HighQuality-Apps-HOWTO.html" TARGET="_top" >single page</A >] [<A HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/HighQuality-Apps-HOWTO.pdf" TARGET="_top" >PDF</A >]</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><A HREF="http://www.linuxandmain.org/essay/avi.html" TARGET="_top" >Linux and Main essay</A > (24<SUP >th</SUP > March 2002)</P ></LI ></UL > </P ><P >It was written originally in brazilian portuguese, and then translated to english. SGML and the more-then-incredible DocBook was used, that made possible this document being distributed in other formats, found in website.</P ><P >It got ready (potuguese+english) in mid march 2002. Everything changed after this epoch is cosmetics.</P ><P >I wrote it to help commercial companies and OpenSource developers make plug-and-play, easy-to-use software for Linux, and this way improve Linux usability and popularity.</P ><P >All concepts (from a high level perspective) described here, can be used in any UNIX flavor, or even other OS, like Windows. Maybe some day I'll write one of these for Windows....or Mac....</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="redhat.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Red Hat, About the Filesystem Structure</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >