Reference List of SUSE Linux Resources

Novell Cool Solutions: Feature
By Scott M. Morris

Digg This - Slashdot This Posted: 10 May 2006

It made sense to create a list of excellent resources for SUSE Linux users, whether new or seasoned. Below is a list of wikis, mailing lists, news sites, forums, and other types of places to go for information on SUSE Linux. If you have additional resources, please let me know, and I will update this page as necessary.

General Information

• http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate - start here
• http://www.opensuse.org
• http://www.novell.com/linux/
• http://www.alionet.org/ - Nice French resource
• SUSE Portal

SUSE Linux Mirrors

• International Update Mirrors for SUSE 10.0 Eval
• International ISO Mirrors for SUSE 10.0 Eval
• ISO and Update Mirrors for current openSUSE.org released version
• ISO and Update Mirrors for current openSUSE.org development version

Wikis

• http://susewiki.org
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE
• http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/SUSE
• CoolSolutions Wiki
• http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de

Mailing Lists

• SUSE Linux Mailing Lists - Novell
• http://en.opensuse.org
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/suse-newbie/
• Novell CoolSolutions Newsletters

News/Articles

• Novell CoolSolutions Articles
• DistroWatch.com - SUSE Linux

Forums

• http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de
• http://www.linuxquestions.org
• http://www.suseforums.net
• http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help

Blogs

• Andreas Jaeger
• Damian Smith
• James Ogley
• Jeff Jaffe
• Miguel de Icaza
• Nat Friedman
• Last and certainly least - Scott Morris
• More SUSE-related blogs can be found on http://planetsuse.org

RSS feeds

• http://distrowatch.com/news/dw.xml
• http://linuxtoday.com/backend/biglt.rss
• http://linux.sys-con.com/index.rss
• http://lxer.com/module/newswire/headlines.rss
• http://www.osnews.com/files/recent.rdf
• http://www.newsforge.com/reports.rss
• http://www.novell.com/newsfeeds/rss/slp.xml
• http://www.novell.com/newsfeeds/rss/nld.xml
• http://www.novell.com/newsfeeds/rss/sles.xml

IRC Channels

• #suse on irc.freenode.org
• #openSUSE on irc.freenode.org

Newsgroups

• ntp://forums.novell.com

Reader Comments

• This is the first time I ever knew that SUSE have a webreference page.
• Awesome resource! Thanks so much.
• You don't even include your own support forums? support-forums.novell.com

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