If you need information about a particular program, you should first
try man
, or
program
info
.
program
There is lots of useful documentation in
/usr/share/doc
as well. In particular,
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO
and
/usr/share/doc/FAQ
contain lots of interesting
information. To submit bugs, look at
/usr/share/doc/debian/bug*
. To read about
Debian-specific issues for particular programs, look at
/usr/share/doc/(package name)/README.Debian
.
The Debian web site contains a large quantity of documentation about Debian. In particular, see the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ and the Debian Reference. An index of more Debian documentation is available from the Debian Documentation Project. The Debian community is self-supporting; to subscribe to one or more of the Debian mailing lists, see the Mail List Subscription page. Last, but not least, the Debian Mailing List Archives contain a wealth of information on Debian.
A general source of information on GNU/Linux is the Linux Documentation Project. There you will find the HOWTOs and pointers to other very valuable information on parts of a GNU/Linux system.