Debian Documentation
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Sources of documentation
- Debian-specific:
- Every package should have some docs in /usr/share/doc/package
- dpkg -L package|grep bin/ %%%helps to find the commands provided in a package
- General:
- man command
- info command
Mailing-Lists
- See http://lists.debian.org/users.html
- debian-announce
Major news and very important changes in the project are announced here.
Very low traffic. - debian-news
The current events and news about Debian are summarized in the Debian Weekly News, a newsletter regularly posted on this list.
Weekly traffic
French translation: debian-news-french
cf also the Weekly News - debian-security-announce
The security team informs the users about security problems by posting security advisories about Debian packages on this list.
Moderate traffic
- debian-announce
Sites
- http://www.debian.org
- http://www.debianaddict.org/ (french)
- http://debaday.livejournal.com/ (and http://debaday.debian.net ?)
- Formation Debian GNU/Linux (fr)
- New packages
- Optimisez les packages Debian pour votre système avec apt-build
- HOWTO - Install Debian Onto a Remote Linux System
- Rolling Out Unattended Debian Installations Part 1 and Part 2
- 2005/09/29 Installing Debian by O'Reilly