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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.
Specifically Debian Forums
http://www.debiancn.org - Chinese Debian Forums.
http://www.debianforum.de - German Debian Forums.
http://www.debianhelp.org - Debian Help Community Site.
http://www.debianuserforums.org - Alternative Debian User Forums.
http://forums.debian.net - Debian User Forums.
General Linux Forums and Sites with Debian Sections
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux/ - Linux Forums
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/ - Linux Questions
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/ - Reddit/Debian
https://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=161 - Ubuntu Forums/Debian
User resources
Debian user resources (HOWTO's, articles, etc.):
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.
https://www.debian.org/News/ - Latest Debian News
http://www.debianadmin.com - Debian Admin Tutorials and Howtos.
http://www.debianguiden.dk - Danish Debian Guide.
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk - System admins, Tutorials, HOWTOs, articles, news and useful open source software.
LocalGroups - This is a list of "geographical" user groups.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/newbiedoc/ - Intros by newbies for newbies.
Advocacy, developers, inside information
http://www.debian-administration.org - Debian Administration resources.
http://www.debianhelp.org - Debian Help - Questions and Answers.
#debian (irc.debian.org)
http://planet.debian.org - PlanetDebian - Announcements and General Notice Board.
http://qref.sourceforge.net/ - Upstream of Debian Reference.
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://wiki.debianbrasil.org/ - Brasilian Wiki in Portugese
https://wiki.debian-fr.xyz - User orientated Wiki by Debian-fr.xyz in French Language.
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.
Other international support
- German
http://www.debianforum.de - debianforum.de - Debian Webforum.
- Spain
http://barrapunto.com/index.pl?section=debian - Barrapunto.com - Debian related News.
http://blog.desdelinux.net/tag/debian - DesdeLinux - Documentation, news and forums related to Debian.
http://www.exdebian.org - exDebian - Documentation, news and forums related to Debian.
- Mexico
http://www.garryricketsonartworks.org/Debian-spanish/ -New, support questions, discussion
- French
http://debian-facile.org - Debian-Facile - Debian related doc, news and forums.
http://www.debian-fr.org - Debian-fr - Debian related doc.
http://www.devloprog.org/admin - DevloProg - Debian admin related tips.
https://www.debian-fr.xyz - Debian-fr.xyz - Debian forum related doc. and tutorials.
- 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.
- 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://linux-training.be/files/books/LinuxFun.pdf - Linux Fundamentals
http://www.tldp.org - The Linux Documentation Project.
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:
See also