This document is intended as a replacement and extension of the unmaintained X Terminal HOWTO. The following Mini-HOWTOs can be found at the Linux Documentation Project (TLDP): XWindow-Overview-HOWTO, XWindow-User-HOWTO, XDM-Xterm Mini-HOWTO, NCD X terminal Mini-HOWTO.
TLDP, the XFree86 project, and the GNU organization have a series of online manuals that describe many of the services dealt with in this Mini-HOWTO. Man pages relevant to this document include pages for XDM, NFS, exports, X, and ulimit.