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Web Site For Debian Newbies

Posted by Hemos on from the new-stuff-for-debianites dept.

lemox writes: "DebianHELP is a slash-style site that seeks to allay some of the problems new users face with Debian. There's not much there now, as they seemed to have launched only a few days ago, but it seems like it has a lot of potential. They need Debian-specific write-ups on many problems faced by new users, so here is your chance to make a contribution."

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  1. Ahh, some signal among the noise.. I hope... by TrIaX · · Score: 4

    The site, while pretty bare ATM, and a tad on the slow side, is an excellent start. There have been times when I started out with Debian that I was wondering "WTF?" and the answer been something simple like "you need to install the *-dev package to compile things against it" or something complex like having to touch various files during the kernel module probes when potato (back when it was unstable :) broke.

    I did notice on their banner that they have "debianHELP: Militantly FREE software help." in their top bar. I hope this means that they aren't going to reject helping those with questions on the non-free packages available, but instead allow questions/answers/writeups on ALL thing Debian.

    Being a long time Debian user, I'll probably start lending spare time to help with what they need help with as my way of giving back to a distribution that I've fallen in love with. I just hope it doesn't turn into the standard "newbie posts questions, regulars flame with RTFM!" type of environment.

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    Aluve, TrIaX