Further Reading and Information
The
Debian web site
contains a large quantity of documentation about &debian;. In
particular, see the
Debian GNU/Linux FAQ and the
Debian
Reference.
An index of more &debian; documentation is available from the
Debian Documentation Project.
The &debian; community is self-supporting; to subscribe to
one or more of the Debian mailing lists, see the
Mail List Subscription page.
Last, but not least, the Debian Mailing
List Archives contain a wealth of information on &debian;.
If you need information about a particular program, you should first
try man program, or
info program.
There is lots of useful documentation in
/usr/share/doc as well. In particular,
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO and
/usr/share/doc/FAQ contain lots of interesting
information. To submit bugs, look at
/usr/share/doc/debian/bug*. To read about
&debian;-specific issues for particular programs, look at
/usr/share/doc/(package name)/README.Debian.
A general source of information on GNU/Linux is the
Linux Documentation Project.
There you will find the HOWTOs and pointers to other very valuable
information on parts of a GNU/Linux system.
Linux is an implementation of Unix. The
Linux Documentation Project (LDP)
collects a number of HOWTOs and online books
relating to Linux.
If you are new to Unix, you probably should go out and buy some books
and do some reading.
This list of Unix FAQs contains a
number of UseNet documents which provide a nice historical reference.