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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 Ressources

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Official Websites of the Debian Project

On [http://www.debian.org Debian.org] official Debian site, you can find a section dedicated to documentation (intended for users, as far as I know).

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Forum

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User ressources

Debian user resources (HOWTO's, articles, etc)

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Advocacy, developers, inside informations

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Wiki

Debian Related Wikis

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Other international supports

Package Description

In the package description you can find some useful information, like a short description of the package, a link to the original website, a list of files contained, and more. The package description can be accessed at the url http://packages.debian.org/<package-name>. Or, try "aptitude show $PKG" (you may need to "apt-get update && apt-get aptitude && aptitude update" first).

One of the best places to look for help for a single package or application is to read stuff in /usr/share/doc/<package-name> (especially README.Debian). This is documentation written by developers or package maintainers. It is quite concise, but usually mentions most common problems and solutions, and new features and fixed bugs.

Bug tracking system

Many problems' solutions can be found as bug report responses. A search engine for bug reports is found on [http://bugs.debian.org]. Remember that if you want to search in archived (quite old) bugs you must chose "archived bugs" option. If you want to look at bugs of a specific package use http://bugs.debian.org/<package-name>.

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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

Interactive Documentation

These are places where you can ask a question and probably receive an answer. It is very important to give as much information as possible (within reason) when asking a question. It is very likely that you will get a satisfying answer, providing you have been able to sufficiently describe your problem so others can understand it.

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Google

A resource that many of the tech savy are used to is Google and should be a great place to look to. You would be amazed how fast you can answer a simple question with a simple query. Try it out at: http://www.google.com/

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Books

Many free and non-free books are listed on Debian website.

Extra books could be listed below.

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IRC channel

An IRC channel named #debian can be found on irc.debian.org and on irc.freenode.net. To connect, you need an IRC client (see IrcClients). More information can be found on GettingHelpOnIrc.

The channel has its own [:FAQ].


See also: ["UnofficialRepositories"], ["DebianMailingLists"]