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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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