August 1999
Beginner
760 pages
23h 55m
English
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Linux News and Information Sites
Recently, a number of sites that feature news about Linux have been created. If you need to get your daily dose of Linuxish reading, try one (or more) of the following:
- http://lwn.net
Has articles and feature stories about different Linux-related topics.
- http://www.linuxgazette.com
Now a subsidiary of the print magazine Linux Journal, Linux Gazette does not contain news so much as articles about setting things up and finding your way through your Linux system. Mainly targetted at beginners to intermediary users.
- http://www.linuxfocus.org
Calls itself “the first and (for the moment) only multilingual magazine about Linux.” Contains longer reviews and articles about Linux-related things in several languages.
- http://linux.miningco.com
Contains longer reviews and articles about Linux-related things; often very well written.
- http://www.freshmeat.net
A very useful list of new software available for Linux. If you are wondering whether the rest of the Linux community is sleeping or working, check this site and watch the new applications coming in.
- http://slashdot.org
Brings often updated headlines from computing in general (but with a focus on Linux and free software) and is probably best known for its bulletin-board system where people can comment on the news and on other comments. The low quality of some comments (both orthographic and content-wise) sometimes makes a sort of fun of its own. (This does not apply to the news themselves, though.)
- http://www.chariott.com/linapps.html ...
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