Appendix B (Starting a web site) . Entering the Linux Community 763
Appendix B . Entering the Linux Community 763 . Distrowatch (www.distrowatch.com) Contains information about a few hundred different Linux distributions. The site provides an easy way to find out about different distributions, and then simply connect to the distribution s home page, download site, or related forums. . LinuxISO.org (www.linuxiso.org) Provides information about Linux distributions and how to get them. Also tells you about downloading, verifying, and burning your own CDs from ISO images. . LWN.net Linux Distributions (lwn.net/Distributions) If you want to read succinct descriptions of more than 400 Linux distributions on one page, this is the place to go. Here are key sites associated with Linux distributions covered in this book: . Fedora (fedora.redhat.com) Community-driven Linux, supported by Red Hat. Check the Fedora Legacy Project (http://fedoralegacy.org) for longterm support issues. Look to Fedora Extras (www.fedora.us) and Livna.org (rpm.livna.org) for downloads of extra Fedora software. . Red Hat Enterprise Linux (www.redhat.com) Check the main Red Hat Web site for information on commercial Linux products. . Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Get news, documentation, support, and download information about Debian. To learn about packages, try the Debian Package a Day site (www.livejournal.com/users/debaday), which adds new descriptions of packages in the Sarge Debian distribution each day. (This site lists the 20 most recent journal entries.) . SUSE (www.suse.com) Get product and support information from this project s site. Also try the Novell site (www.novell.com), which owns SUSE. . Knoppix (www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html) The official KNOPPIX page on its creator s (Klaus Knopper s) Web site. An English forum is at www.knoppix.net, and a German forum at www.linuxtag.org/forum. . Yellow Dog (www.yellowdoglinux.com) From this site, sponsored by Terra Soft Solutions, you can purchase Yellow Dog Linux on CDs or get it preinstalled on Mac hardware. The YDL.net site offers some extra services for Yellow Dog Linux users, such as personal e-mail accounts and Web space. . Gentoo (www.gentoo.org) The center for the very active Gentoo community. The site contains a wealth of information about Gentoo and plenty of forums and IRC channels in which to participate. You ll find a solid and growing documentation set to back up the distribution, and tons of software packages to try (in the thousands). . Slackware (www.slackware.org) Check the changelogs at this site to get a feel for the latest Slackware developments. Try LinuxPackages (www.linux packages.net) for a broader range of information about Slackware.
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