August 1999
Beginner
760 pages
23h 55m
English
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Sources of Linux Information
As you have probably guessed, there are many sources of information about Linux available apart from this book.
Online Documents
If you have access to the Internet, you can get many Linux documents via web and anonymous FTP sites all over the world. If you do not have direct Internet access, these documents may still be available to you; many Linux distributions on CD-ROM contain all the documents mentioned here and are often available off the retail shelf. Also, they are distributed on many other networks, such as Fidonet and CompuServe.
There are a great number of web and FTP archive sites that carry Linux software and related documents. Appendix A contains a listing of some of the Linux documents available via the Internet.
Examples of available online documents are the Linux FAQ, a collection of frequently asked questions about Linux; the Linux HOWTO documents, each describing a specific aspect of the system—including the Installation HOWTO, the Printing HOWTO, and the Ethernet HOWTO; and the Linux META-FAQ, a list of other sources of Linux information on the Internet.
Most of these documents are also posted regularly to one or more Linux-related Usenet newsgroups; see Section 1.10.3 later in this chapter.
The Linux Documentation home page is available to web users at http://www.linuxdoc.org. This page contains many HOWTOs and other documents, as well as pointers to other sites of interest to Linux users, including the Linux Documentation Project ...
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