Most useful Linux Resources

[SensoVision]

Have just thought about organizing thread for most useful Linux resources, which I'm using personally. Would also appreciate if you post links to sites which you find to be helpful in learning or using Linux OS.
http://www.linuxquestions.org - that's my first pick, they have very big forums and you can find almost any answer on your question, just do a search, and even  if you fail to find people there could still help you if you describe problem in details.

http://freshmeat.net/ this one is for people who like to find some free soft for your OS

http://www.lokigames.com/products/ this one is for gamers. Folks out there port games from Windows to Linux platform

http://www.kernel.org/ probably all around know about this site but since it's one of the most important resources I'll mention it here as well. In most cases system would perfectly work without kernel upgrades but if you have some new harware which doesn't supported by old kernel or wish to find some new features this site is for you.

http://kerneltrap.org/ - site which would help to solve problems with your Kernel

that's all for now, I'll post more with the time

[lostingermany]

The best places to find out about linux is to read the How to's. When it is installed on SuSe there is a very big database with help topics about almost everything. When I started with Linux back in the late 90's I found alot of links for Linux at several Universities in the States. I do not know if they are still there but most of them still should be. I have also found a few website with help and they are:

http://www.linuxlinks.com/
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/
http://www.linuxfocus.org/

If you are looking for help for programs that run with linux, then it would be good to go tothere websites, ex.

http://www.apache.org
http://www.mysql.com
http://www.sendmail.org
http://www.sendmail.com
http://www.php.net

Have fun!!

Kevin

[12noon]

Thanks for the great links to the linus resources.
 
Can you tell me what i should be looking to download first as soon as i've installed linux ? I take it that a firewall would be a good idea.

[SensoVision]

personally I don't have to use firewall, but if you'd like there are plenty of programs(free of course) which could set-up firewall for you, or you can create custom firewall using IPChains(that's build in feature of the kernel which is used for routing and other network tasks).
BTW if you're on Debian, you just need to run program called Synaptic(when you in X-Window-System) and make a search on firewall, you'll get list of many programs which could be installed after one click

[SensoVision]

just thought to post about this resource as someone may found it useful: http://pciids.sourceforge.net/
This is a public repository of all known ID's used in PCI devices, that is ID's of vendors, devices, subsystems and device classes. These ID lists (usually in form of a pci.ids file) are used in various programs like lspci

[SensoVision]

I've also posted list of Linux forums in this thread

[12noon]

If you don't have a fast modem and don't want to spend ages downloading Linux, then why not take a look on EBAY. You can buy cd's or dvd's with Linux on them and some will sell you 3 or 4 versions of Linux for just the price of the disk and postage and packing. It's worth taking a look at what's on offer on Ebay anyway.

[Menard]

If you don't have a fast modem and don't want to spend ages downloading Linux, then why not take a look on EBAY. You can buy cd's or dvd's with Linux on them and some will sell you 3 or 4 versions of Linux for just the price of the disk and postage and packing. It's worth taking a look at what's on offer on Ebay anyway.

You can also get them from Budget Linux CDs, updated regulary and for a low cost, usually lower than you can get it on eBay (on eBay, you might get a CD for $1, but it may cost $6 for the shipping).

You can also find distros on Amazon. Just search for the distro you want. Go to the item page for that distro and click on the used section. There you will find sellers offering CDs for a budget price. The advantage with Amazon, is that all sellers on Amazon must accept all forms of payment which Amazon offers, including checks and money orders.

[SensoVision]

I've just realize that for viewing big man pages like one which come with mplayer it's much easier to browse them using browser rather than perform this in console. Here is good site which let you search through many man pages online: http://seth.positivism.org/man.cgi?q=man
If you run a server on your box it's could be good idea to create such man archive locally it could be done with man2html package, in Debian just do
apt-get install man2html
BTW I've used Debian package as well and it didn't work for me right from the box since I compile Apache myself and have cgi-bin in different folder. So I've copied all content from /usr/lib/cgi-bin/man to /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin and everything start to working

[SensoVision]

Just got CDs with Ubuntu Linux(it's Debian based distribution with GNOME as a desktop manager), all disks are free and they tell that you've to pay for shipping, but I didn't pay anything on my post office. So if you wish to try Linux for free and don't have friends to borrow disks you may request them for free from this site: https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

[12noon]

Here's one you might want to check out :-
http://www.linuxappfinder.com
Most stuff is debian based though.

[SensoVision]

Thanks Graham! I'll check it now, as it looks as just what I need