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Look in the following places, and the sites that mirror them.
If you don't have access to FTP, try the FTP-by-mail servers at ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com, ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk or ftp-mailer@informatik.tu-muenchen.de..
A complete list of HOWTO's and Mini-HOWTO's is available in the file
HOWTO.INDEX in the docs/HOWTO directory at the FTP
sites, or on the Web at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX.html, but
here is a (possibly incomplete) list:
AX25-HOWTO Access-HOWTO Assembly-HOWTO Benchmarking-HOWTO BootPrompt-HOWTO Bootdisk-HOWTO CD-Writing-HOWTO CDROM-HOWTO Chinese-HOWTO Commercial-HOWTO Consultants-HOWTO Cyrillic-HOWTO DNS-HOWTO DOS-to-Linux-HOWTO DOSEMU-HOWTO Danish-HOWTO Distribution-HOWTO ELF-HOWTO Emacspeak-HOWTO Ethernet-HOWTO Finnish-HOWTO Firewall-HOWTO Ftape-HOWTO GCC-HOWTO German-HOWTO HAM-HOWTO HOWTO-INDEX Hardware-HOWTO Hebrew-HOWTO IPX-HOWTO ISP-Hookup-HOWTO Installation-HOWTO Intranet-Server-HOWTO Italian-HOWTO Java-CGI-HOWTO Kernel-HOWTO Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO MGR-HOWTO MILO-HOWTO Mail-HOWTO NET-3-HOWTO NFS-HOWTO NIS-HOWTO News-HOWTO Optical-Disk-HOWTO PCI-HOWTO PCMCIA-HOWTO PPP-HOWTO Pilot-HOWTO Polish-HOWTO Printing-HOWTO Printing-Usage-HOWTO RPM-HOWTO Reading-List-HOWTO SCSI-HOWTO SCSI-Programming-HOWTO SMB-HOWTO Serial-HOWTO Serial-Programming-HOWTO Shadow-Password-HOWTO Slovenian-HOWTO Sound-HOWTO Sound-Playing-HOWTO Spanish-HOWTO TeTeX-HOWTO Thai-HOWTO Tips-HOWTO UMSDOS-HOWTO UPS-HOWTO UUCP-HOWTO User-Group-HOWTO VAR-HOWTO VMS-to-Linux-HOWTO XFree86-HOWTO XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO 3-Button-MouseThe following Mini-HOWTO's are available from http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/HOWTO/mini:
ADSM-Backup AI-Alife Advocacy Backup-With-MSDOS Battery-Powered Boca BogoMips Bridge Bridge+Firewall Clock Colour-ls Comeau-C++ DHCPd Dial-On-Demand Diald Dip+SLiRP+CSLIP Diskless Dynamic-IP-Hacks Ext2fs-Undeletion GTEK-BBS-550 HTML-Validation IO-Port-Programming IP-Alias IP-Masquerade IP-Subnetworking JE Jaz-Drive Kerneld Key-Setup LBX Large-Disk Linux+DOS+Win95 Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2 Linux+NT-Loader Linux+OS2+DOS Linux+Win95 Loadlin+Win95 Locales MIDI+SB Mail-Queue Mail2News Man-Page Multiple-Disks-Layout Multiple-Ethernet NFS-Root NFS-Root-Client Netscape+Proxy Offline-Mailing Online-Support PLIP PPP-over-minicom Pager Partition Print2Win Process-Accounting Proxy-ARP Public-Web-Browser Qmail+MH Quota RCS Remote-Boot Remote-X-Apps SLIP+proxyARP SLIP-PPP-Emulator Sendmail+UUCP Software-Building Software-RAID Soundblaster-16 Soundblaster-AWE64 StarOffice Swap-Space Term-Firewall Tiny-News Token-Ring Upgrade VPN Virtual-wu-ftpd Visual-Bell Win95+Win+Linux Windows-Modem-Sharing WordPerfect X-Big-Cursor XFree86-XInside Xterm-Title Xterminal ZIP-Drive ZIP-Install
In addition, translations of the HOWTO's are available from sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations and mirrors worldwide. Translations in the following languages are available:
Chinese (zh) French (fr) German (de) Hellenic (el) Indonesian (id) Italian (it) Japanese (jp) Korean (ko) Polish (pl) Spanish (es) Slovenian (sl) Polish (sv) Turkish (tr)
The HOWTO's are also on the Web, at the Linux Documentation Project's home page, http://sunsite.unc./edu/LDP.
More of these documents are always in preparation. Please get in touch with Greg Hankins, gregh@cc.gatech.edu, the HOWTO coordinator, if you are interested in writing one. The file sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX contains guidelines for writing a HOWTO.
The Guide Series produced by the Linux Documentation Project is available from http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP. Please read them if you are new to Unix and Linux. Here is a list of those available so far:
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Two Web pages in particular provide good starting point for general Linux information: Linux International's Home Page, at http://www.li.org, and the Linux Online's Linux Home Page at http://www.linux.org/.
Both of these pages provide links to other sites, information about general information, distributions, new software, documentation, and news.
Greg Hankins, gregh@cc.gatech.edu, maintains the Linux Documentation Project Home Page, at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP.
This page refers to all the FAQs and HOWTOs, both those which are available in HTML (WWW) format, and those which aren't.
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There are a number of international Usenet newsgroups devoted to Linux.
comp.os.linux.announce is the moderated announcements group;
you should read this if you intend to use Linux: it contains
information about software updates, new ports, user group meetings,
and commercial products. It is the ONLY newsgroup that may carry
commercial postings. Submissions for that group should be emailed to
linux-announce@news.ornl.gov.
comp.os.linux.answers contains all the FAQs, HOWTOs and other
important documentation. You should subscribe to this group also.
Axel Boldt, axel@uni-paderborn.de, noted that
comp.os.linux.announce is NOT archived on Dejanews or
Altavista. The only archive for the news group seems to be
www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html.
Also worth reading are the other groups in the
comp.os.linux.* hierarchy--you may find that many common
problems are too recent to find in this FAQ but are answered in the
newsgroups. These groups are
comp.os.linux.setup comp.os.linux.hardware comp.os.linux.networking comp.os.linux.x comp.os.linux.development.apps comp.os.linux.development.system comp.os.linux.advocacy comp.os.linux.misc
Remember that since Linux is POSIX compatible, most all of the
material in comp.unix.* and comp.windows.x.* groups
will be relevant. Apart from hardware considerations, and some
obscure or very technical low-level issues, you'll find that these
groups are a good place to start.
Please read ``
You still haven't answered my question!
''
before posting. Crossposting between different
comp.os.linux.* groups is rarely a good idea.
There may well be Linux groups local to your institution or area--check there first.
See also `` I don't have Usenet access. Where do I get information? ''
Other regional and local newsgroups also exist--you may find the
traffic more manageable there. The French Linux newsgroup is
fr.comp.os.linux. The German one is
de.comp.os.linux. In Australia, try
aus.computers.linux. In Croatia there is the moderated group
hr.comp.linux.m. In Italy, there is it.comp.linux.
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The Debian/GNU Linux people have a statement on their Web site at http://www.debian.org
Essentially, Linux uses libraries that store dates as 32-bit integers, which count the seconds since 1970. This counter will not overflow until the year 2038, by which time the library programmers will (hopefully) have upgraded the system software to store dates as 64-bit integers.
This, of course, does not mean that applications are not susceptible to the millennium bug, if they do not use the standard library routines.
The Free Software Foundation has a webpage about Y2K issues in GNU software at http://www.fsf.org/software/year2000.html
There is also a Usenet newsgroup, comp.software.year-2000, for general discussion of Y2K issues.
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There are three main archive sites for Linux:
Of the U.S. distributions, Debian GNU/Linux is available at ftp.debian.org/pub/debian. Red Hat Linux's home site is ftp.redhat.com, and Slackware's is ftp.cdrom.com.
The contents of these sites is mirrored (copied, usually approximately daily) by a number of other sites. Please use one close to you--that will be faster for you and easier on the network.
Not all of these mirror all of the other `source' sites, and some have material not available on the `source' sites.
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The easiest thing is probably to find a friend with FTP access. If there is a Linux user's group near you, they may be able to help.
If you have a reasonably good email connection you could try the FTP-by-mail servers at ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se, ftpmail@garbo.uwasa.fi or ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de.
Linux is also available via traditional mail on CD-ROM. The file sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO, and the file sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/distributions/Distribution-HOWTO contain information on these distributions.
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A digest of comp.os.linux.announce is available by mailing the word ``subscribe'' (without the quotes) as the body of a message to linux-announce-REQUEST@news-digests.mit.edu. Subscribe to this list is a good idea, as it carries important information and documentation about Linux.
Please remember to use the *-request addresses for your
subscription and unsubscription messages; mail to the other address is
posted to the newsgroup!
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The Linux developers now mainly use the Majordomo server at majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu. Send a message with the word ``lists'' (without the quotes) in the body to get a list of lists there. Add a line with the word, ``help,'' to get the standard Majordomo help file which lists instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing to the lists.
Most of the lists are used by the developers of Linux to talk about technical issues and future developments. These are not intended for new users' questions.
There is a linux-newbie list where ``no question is too
stupid.'' Unfortunately, it seems that few of the experienced users
read that channel. It does have very low volume.
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The Usenet Linux news groups are archived at http://www.dejanews.com, http://www.reference.com and http://altavista.digital.com
sunsite.unc.edu//pub/Linux/docs/linux-announce.archive
contains archives of comp.os.linux.announce. These are
mirrored from
src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet, which also archives
comp.os.linux, comp.os.linux.development.apps, and
comp.os.linux.development.system.
There is an ``easy to access'' archive of
comp.os.linux.announce on the World Wide Web at
http://www.leo.org/archiv/linux/archiv/ann_index.html. It
supports searching and browsing.
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