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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. Below is a list of many!

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Debian Support sites

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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 support

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.

Books

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

Extra books could be listed below.


See also: ["UnofficialRepositories"]