Linux for Beginners

While Linux-based OSes have grown quite a bit more approachable and predictable during the past several years, getting acquainted with Linux can still be frustrating.

Fortunately, there are lots of helpful people out on the Internet who can answer your questions. Even better, theres a pretty complete log of the past questions and issues that others have already faced and solved waiting for you at your search engine of choice. Whats more, every distribution worth its salt maintains a variety of outlets for distributing information and offering help, including project wikis, mailing lists, IRC (Internet Relay Chat) rooms, user forums and project blog sites.

Fedora

• Fedora Project wiki
• Fedora mailing lists (the ones with names that contain "fedora")
• Fedora IRC rooms
• Fedora forums
• Fedora people blog
• Fedora software management

OpenSUSE

• OpenSUSE wiki
• OpenSUSE mailing lists
• OpenSUSE IRC rooms, newsgroups, blogs and forums
• OpenSUSE software management

Ubuntu

• Ubuntu wiki
• Ubuntu mailing lists
• Ubuntu forums
• Ubuntu IRC rooms
• Ubuntu blogs
• Ubuntu software management

Foresight

• Foresight wiki
• Foresight mailing lists
• Foresight IRC: #foresight on irc.freenode.net
• Foresight forums
• Foresight blogs
• Foresight software management

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