Linux Resources Help Links

Linux Resources, Help and Some Links

Part 2 of the Linux Newbie Administrator Guide

Related Resources

• Linux Newbie Administrator Guide
• 0. Linux Benefit
• 1. Before Installation
• 2. Linux Resources/Help
• 3. Basic Operations FAQ
• 4. Newbie Admin FAQ
• ~ 4.1 Lilo
• ~ 4.2 Drives
• ~ 4.3 X-Windows
• ~ 4.4 Configurations
• ~ 4.5 Networking
• 5. Shortcuts / Commands
• 6. Linux Applications
• 7. Learn Linux Commands
• A. How to Upgrade Kernel?

2.6 Any Linux Internet links?

There are surely thousands of Internet sites devoted to Linux. Here are some Linux links which I like, in no particular order. If you need something else, you should find a useful pointer on one of these pages.

http://sunsite.dk/linux-newbie/	Master site for this document (LNAG). Bookmark it.
http://www.linuxdoc.org /docs.html	Linux Documentation Project--Home for the many FAQs, Howtos, Minihowtos and Guides. Always up-to-date.
http://www.kalug.lug.net /linux-admin-FAQ/	Linux Admin FAQ (the non-Newbie).
http://members.aa.net/~swear /pedia/learning-linux.html	Gary's Encyclopedia--Learning Linux. Bookmark it.
http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/	Josh homepage. Good resource for learning Linux.
http://www.control-escape.com/	This site seems good for newbies!
http://www.linuxninja.com /linux-admin/	Linux administration made easy (LAME). Recommended.
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw /index.html#guide	Lots of Linux documentation. Bookmark it.
http://www.frankenlinux.com	Another help site for newbies
http://www.easyfeed.com /~jgo/LinuxGuide/	Yet another newbie guide
http://www.slashdot.org/	Discussions for nerds, hackers, gurus, etc. (= /.)
http://www.freshmeat.org/	Update on today's releases of Linux software
http://linuxtoday.com/	Linux news--excellent daily reading. Bookmark it.
http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de/	"The Linux Lab Project." Data acquisition and other interesting material for those in science.
http://www.linuxberg.com/	Linuxberg. Big portal. They have everything there. I like their rating of Linux software and am installing only packages that received 5 penguins ;-) . Bookmark it.
http://counter.li.org /linuxcounter_eng.html	The Linux counter. Register yourself as a linuxer!
http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users /havlik/Album/Linux-Counter/	See Dennis Havlik's impressive maps on Linux growth and geographical distribution.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users /iwj10/linux-faq/index.html	Linux FAQ.
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/	Tons of Linux software at the Sunsite archive. Bookmark it.
http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum /linuxlist/linuxlist/linuxlist.html	Linux applications.
http://www.boutell.com/lsm/	Linux applications.
http://www.linuxlinks.com /Software/	Linux applications.
http://directorysearch.mozilla.org /Computers/Operating_Systems /Linux/	Great new portal (better than yahoo) with excellent links for Linux newbies.
http://dir.yahoo.com/... /Unix/Linux/	Yahoo's entries for Linux. Looks very corporate-they refuse to add this guide!
http://www.debian.org/	Debian Linux site.
http://hardware.redhat.com /hcl/genpage2.cgi	Linux hardware compatibility list.
http://metalab.unc.edu /mdw/links.html	Lots of useful Linux links
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au /~conradp/linux/	Scores of excellent links.
http://www.linuxstart.com /documentation/	More links to Linux documentation.
http://www.linuxlinks.com/	Even more Linux links.
http://www.gnu.org/	Master GNU site (GNU's-Not-Unix. This is a recursive definition).
http://www.redhat.com/	The Red Hat site. It is typically too busy to bother.
http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI /u/torvalds/	Linus Torvalds home page.

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