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).
http://www.debian.org/support - support home
http://www.debian.org/doc - Debian documentation home
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual - Installation manual
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html - Debian Reference Manual
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Forum
http://lists.debian.org - Mailinglists, main way of Debian communication
http://lists.debian.org/users.html - User mailinglists
http://forums.debian.net - Debian.net Forums
http://www.debianhelp.org - Debian Help Community Site
http://www.debianforum.de - German Debian Forums
http://www.debianforum.dk - Danish Debian Forums
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User ressources
Debian user resources (HOWTO's, articles, etc)
LocalGroups - Debian Local Groups
http://www.debianadmin.com - Debian Admin Tutorials and Howtos
http://www.debian-administration.org - Community Debian System Administration Site
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk - Tutorials and more
http://www.debianguiden.dk - Danish Debian Guide
http://www.debianforum.nl - Dutch Debian&Ubuntu Wiki, low content
http://cafecomputer.com/guide/users-guide.en.html - Debian Desktop Users' Guide
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ - intros by newbies for newbies
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Advocacy, developers, inside informations
http://times.debian.net - Debian Times
http://www.debian.org/News - Official news
http://planet.debian.org - Planet Debian, aggregating lots of Developer blogs
http://debianplanet.org - A Debian news site
http://planeta.debian.net - Planeta Debian, a blog aggregator in spanish
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://db.debian.org - Debian Developer Database
http://release.debian.org - Debian Release Management pages
http://alioth.debian.org - Project hosting for Open Source developers
http://mentors.debian.net - Public package repository
http://snapshot.debian.net - Debian packages archived daily since 2002/06/04
http://www.debian-administration.org - Debian Administration resources
http://www.debianplanet.org - DebianPlanet - Announcements and General Notice Board
http://www.debianhelp.org - Debian Help - Questions and Answers
http://www.linuks.mine.nu/debian-faq-wiki #Debian (irc.debian.org) FAQ
http://www.apt-get.orgUnofficial APT repositories
http://www.backports.org - Backports for the stable distribution
http://homex.subnet.at/~max/debian/index.php - Debian Related Stuff
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Wiki
Debian Related Wikis
http://wiki.debian.org - The Official Debian Wiki
http://markhobley.yi.org:9090 - Mark Hobley's Debian Users' Wiki
http://wiki.debconf.org - The DebConf Wiki
http://kernelnewbies.org - Kernelnewbies Wiki
http://en.linux.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page - General Linux Wiki
http://www.debonaras.org - Debonaras (Debian On NAS And Routers And Stuff)
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
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Other international support
- German
http://www.debianforum.de - debianforum.de - Debian Webforum
http://dugfaq.sylence.net - debian-user-german FAQ - Archive of 'debian-user-german'
- Spain
http://www.esdebian.org - esDebian - Debian related info
http://www.laespiral.org - La Espiral - Debian related Website
http://barrapunto.com/index.pl?section=debian - Barrapunto.com - Debian related News
- French
http://www.debian-fr.org - Debian-fr - Debian related doc
http://www.debianworld.org - Debian World - Debian related doc and news
http://andesi.org - Andesi - Debian related doc, news and forums
http://dpt.tuxfamily.org - Debian Pour Tous - Debian related doc and news
- Portuguese
http://www.debian-rs.org - Debian-RS - Debian related website
http://www.debian-br.org - Debian-BR - Debian related website
- Dutch
http://www.debianforum.nl - DebianForum.nl - Dutch Debian Webforum
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.
http://www.debian.org/doc/books - Debian Book Library
Extra books could be listed below.
See also: ["UnofficialRepositories"]