What Other FAQ's and Documentation Are There for Linux?

There are a number of special interest FAQ's on different subjects related to system administration and use, and also on miscellaneous topics like Flying Saucer Attacks (the music) and support for recovering sysadmins.

The official Usenet FAQ archives are: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/.

The Internet FAQ Consortium provides a searchable archive at: http://www.faqs.org/. The site also maintains a current archive of Internet Request For Comment (RFC), Best Current Practices (BCP), and For Your Information (FYI) documents.

Here are some FAQ's and documents that might be especially useful, and their network addresses:

• A FAQ for new users: http://homes.arealcity.com/swietanowski/LinuxFAQ/

• A Linux FAQ in Spanish is available at: http://www.abierta.org/faq.htm Un FAQ (preguntas mas frecuentes) en Español se halla disponible en http://www.abierta.org/faq.htm

• AfterStep FAQ: http://www.linuxinfor.com/en/astepfaq/AfterStep-FAQ.html

• BASH Frequently Asked Questions: ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pug/bash/FAQ/

• de.comp.os.unix.linux.infos - FAQ: http://www.dcoul.de/

• Frequently Asked Questions about Open Source: http://www.opensource.org/faq.html

• Ftape-FAQ: http://www.linuxinfor.com/en/ftapefaq/Ftape-FAQ.html

• GNU Emacs: http://www.lerner.co.il/emacs/faq-body.shtml

• GNU Linux in Science and Engineering: http://www.comsoc.org/vancouver/scieng.html

• GNU Troff (groff) Info: http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/groff/

• Gnus 5.x: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/software/contrib/gnus/

• KDE FAQ: http://www.kde.org/faq.html

• GNU General Public License FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html

• Linux PPP FAQ: http://www.linuxinfor.com/en/pppfaq/PPP-FAQ.html

• Linux-Raid FAQ: http://www.linuxinfor.com/en/raidfaq/index.html

• List of Periodic Information Postings: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/

• News.newusers.announce FAQ http://web.presby.edu/~nnqadmin/nan/

• Online Linux Resources: http://www.linuxinfor.com/en/docfaq.htm

• O'Reilly & Associates Openbook Project: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/

• Sendmail: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/

• Sendmail: Installation and Operation Guide: Formatted and me source versions are in the doc/ subdirectory of Sendmail source code distributions. http://www.sendmail.org/

• Technical FAQ for Linux Users: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-faq/?n-l-7261

• Web Internet Search Engine: http://www.infobasic.com/pagefaq.html

• Wu-ftpd: http://www.wu-ftpd.org/man/ (really a collection of man pages), with HOWTO's at: http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/

• XTERM Frequently Asked Questions. http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html

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