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- Debian has a large community of active developers and users. It is probably one of the largest free distributions - and has a very loyal following. Because of this, there are many further resources and support. Below is a list of many!
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Debian Support Resources
You can find Official documentation
on Debian.org the official Debian site.
Forum
http://forums.debian.net - Debian User Forums
http://www.debianforum.de - German Debian Forums
http://www.debianhelp.org - Debian Help Community Site
mailto:libranet-ot@yahoogroups.com - Libranet Off Topic
User resources
Debian user resources (HOWTO's, articles, etc)
LocalGroups - this is a list of "geographical" user groups.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/newbiedoc/ - intros by newbies for newbies
http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#refcard - A printable reference to common Debian commands, translated to many different languages
http://www.debian-administration.org - Community Debian System Administration Site
http://www.debian-news.net - A collection of articles about Debian and Ubuntu
http://www.debianadmin.com - Debian Admin Tutorials and Howtos
http://www.debianforum.nl - Dutch Debian&Ubuntu Wiki, low content
http://www.debianguiden.dk - Danish Debian Guide
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk - System admins, Tutorials, HOWTOs, articles, news and useful open source software
Advocacy, developers, inside information
http://qref.sourceforge.net/ - Upstream of Debian Reference
http://www.apt-get.org - Unofficial APT repositories
http://www.debian-administration.org - Debian Administration resources
http://www.debian-community.org - Debian-Community.org is a brand new effort to give something back to the community and bridge the gap between developers and users.
http://www.debianhelp.org - Debian Help - Questions and Answers
http://planet.debian.org - PlanetDebian - Announcements and General Notice Board
#debian (irc.debian.org)
Wiki
Debian Related Wikis
http://en.linux.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page - General Linux Wiki
http://guide.debianizzati.org/ - A Debian related wiki by Debianizzati.org in Italian Language
http://kernelnewbies.org - Kernelnewbies Wiki
http://markhobley.yi.org:9090 - Mark Hobley's Debian Users' Wiki
http://wiki.earth.li/DebianUK - Debian-UK's wiki (mostly for UK events)
http://wiki.debianforum.de - User orientated Wiki by Debianforum.de in German Language
http://doc.debian-id.org - User orientated Wiki by Debian-id.org in Indonesian Language
http://www.debonaras.org - Debonaras (Debian On NAS And Routers And Stuff)
Other international support
- German
http://dugfaq.sylence.net - debian-user-german FAQ - Archive of 'debian-user-german'
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de Debian newbie documentation
http://www.debianforum.de - debianforum.de - Debian Webforum
- Spain
http://barrapunto.com/index.pl?section=debian - Barrapunto.com - Debian related News
http://www.esdebian.org - esDebian - Debian related info
http://www.laespiral.org - La Espiral - Debian related Website
- French
http://andesi.org - Andesi - Debian related doc, news and forums
http://dpt.tuxfamily.org - Debian Pour Tous - Debian related doc and news
http://www.debian-fr.org - Debian-fr - Debian related doc
http://www.debianworld.org - Debian World - Debian related doc and news
http://www.devloprog.org/admin - DevloProg - Debian admin related tips
- Finland
http://debian-fi.dy.fi - Suomi Debian - Finland Debian forum
- Portuguese
http://www.debian-br.org - Debian-BR - Debian related website
http://www.debian-rs.org - Debian-RS - Debian related website
http://www.debianpt.org - DebianPT - Portuguese Debian related website
- Dutch
http://www.debianforum.nl - DebianForum.nl - Dutch Debian Webforum
- Indonesian
http://www.debian-id.org - Debian-ID - Debian related doc, news and forums
- Italian
http://www.debianizzati.org/ - Debianizzati.org - Debian users community with news, forums, e-zine and a lot of guides and documentation.
- Russian
http://debianforum.ru/ - russian forum
Generic Linux & Unix Documentation
Here is a short list of places where you can find *nix related documentation. Please add to this list only universally useful links. For example a page explaining how to install nVidia kernel drivers is not a good idea. -- PaoloPan
http://www.tldp.org - The Linux Documentation Project
http://oslab.snu.ac.kr/~djshin/linux/mail-list - a list of Linux mailing lists
http://linux.editme.com - about Linux (preferly encyclopedias)
A resource that many of the tech savvy use is Google. It is a great place to search for Debian related information. You would be amazed how fast you can answer a simple question with a simple query. Try out the English version at: http://www.google.com/
See also