Newsgroups

To keep up with Linux developments, you need access to the Internet, especially to the newsgroups. You can find discussions on specific Linux-related topics in the newsgroups listed in Table G-1.

Table G-1: Linux Newsgroups on the Internet
Newsgroup	Provides the Following
comp.os.linux.admin	Information about Linux system administration
comp.os.linux.advocacy	Discussions about promoting Linux
comp.os.linux.announce	Important announcements about Linux. (This is a moderated newsgroup, which means you must mail an article to the moderator, who then posts it to the newsgroup.)
comp.os.linux.answers	Questions and answers about Linux. (All the Linux HOWTOs are posted in this moderated newsgroup.)
comp.os.linux.development	Current Linux development work
comp.os.linux.development.apps	Linux application development
comp.os.linux.development.system	Linux operating system development
comp.os.linux.hardware	Discussions about Linux and various hardware
comp.os.linux.help	Help with various aspects of Linux
comp.os.linux.misc	Miscellaneous topics about Linux
comp.os.linux.networking	Networking under Linux
comp.os.linux.setup	Linux setup and installation
comp.os.linux.x	Discussions about setting up and running the X Window System under Linux
linux.redhat	Discussions about Red Hat Linux

You can use Mozilla to read the newsgroups. For a newsgroup, use a URL of the form news://my.newsserver.com/newsgroup, in which my.newsserver.com is the fully qualified domain name of your news server (your Internet service provider should give you this name), and newsgroup is the name of the newsgroup you want to read. For example, assuming that your news server is news.myisp.net, you can browse the comp.os .linux.setup newsgroup by typing the following URL in the Location field of the Netscape Web browser:

news://news.myisp.net/comp.os.linux.setup

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You can also use the Google Groups page at http://groups.google.com/ to search for specific items in the comp.os.linux newsgroups or browse that newsgroup.