Debian Documentation

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

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

Non-Debian but still useful...

• http://www.computerhope.com/unix.htm