How should a newbie search for GNU/Linux help?

[Ben Finney]

Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran at fsfe.org> writes:

> It seems that each distro has it's own forums, and most projects
> have their own forums or mailing lists, and then there are some
> general sites like linuxquestions.org (or google.com/linux).

My first response is to lament the rise of such one-site-only,
non-standard forums at the expense of categorised, distributed,
standard-protocol Usenet forums. It does contribute to the problem of
knowing where to start.

> These are great for you and I

I find them far inferior to Usenet, myself, and am very glad for the
huge wealth of such forums standardised in access by the NNTP
interface of the Gmane service.

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Ben Finney