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FAQ - Linux information sources
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Q: Where can I get information about Linux on LQWiki?
Start with this FAQ, or with Main Page and browse through the topics and subtopics, or use the Search facility. If you don't find what you want, see Linux support options or other questions in FAQ - Linux information sources. In this case, you have probably found a documentation bug: report it at Documentation_bug.
Q: Where can I get information on LQWiki, itself?
Go to Editable LQ Central, where there are topics on
- Introduction: About, Welcome
- Guidelines: Policies, Copyrights, Style, Markup
- Getting started: Searching, Browsing Hierarchical TOC, Account, Plunge, New page, Naming, Stubs, Disambiguation, Editing, Long pages, Reverting, History, Redirect, Talk pages, Sandbox
- Contribute: Ways to help, User contributed help and tips, Suggestions, FAQ, Discussion, Requests
- Administration: Administrators, Deletion log, MediaWiki message links
Q: How do I get from a vague idea to the information I want?
In general, you can use combininations of the above keywords and the topics you are interested in for a Search with Google, LQWiki's Search, and the search or index facilities in any document you have already found. The goal is to avoid extremes: not so many hits that you can't spot the one you want; not so few that the one you want isn't there. You have to experiment to find this happy medium, and sometimes you'll have to start over from a new point of view.
If neither of these methods helps, you have probably found a documentation bug in LQWiki. Please report it on the Documentation bug page.
Another place to browse for Linux-related information is TLDP.
Q: Where can I get information about Linux on my local system?
Learn how to use the Find, Man, Locate, and Grep commands to search for local documents containing the information you want. Learn how to use the OpenOffice, Mozilla, Gedit, Evolution, and other Document utilities to search for the information in the documents you found.
Q: Where can I get information about Linux on the internet?
- Google - Powerful Search facility. Use the search techniques just described.
- Getting help from IRC - Interactive Internet Relay Chat sessions, sometimes with experts.
- Documentation
- LQWiki:Searching
- Linux support options
- MARC - Mailing List Archives - a searchable archive of mailing list archives. Allows you to search through many archives for a topic by subject and to search the bodies of messages in an archive that you have selected.
Q: Are there any good books about Linux?
A list of recommended books regarding linux, unix, and open-source can be found at the Books section.
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