Rules for the LinuxBasics.org mailing list
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- Questions and answers on Linux
Technical stuff, manners and politeness
- no auto-responders - (this includes Out of Office messages)
- no reply requests - (this includes those spam things that require the sender to reply so that you can receive their email.)
- do not send plain “test,” “thank you,” “me too,” and other messages that do not contain actual relevant information to the list. Send your thanks and so on directly to the person. Their e-mail address is included in their post. - (We have some better ideas on how to test your mailsystem here.)
- However do send a message to the list if your problem has been solved. Describe how it was solved so others can learn from it.
- trim replies. Leave only what it vitally important to understand your answer. If somebody needs broader context, there are the archives and gmane.org
- send links, not the whole document or web page to the list. - (but quote the first paragraph or two if you’d like) Some of the articles are copyrighted and others are simply too long.
- send no attachments - If you need to share configuration files or logfiles, put them on your member-folder on LinuxBasics.org, and put the link in your mail
- HTML is stripped automatically
- Only the list address is accepted. Do not send your post to other addresses. This includes Cc’s.
Do we really have to say this?
- no porn
- nothing illegal
- nothing that comes close to the above
Related reading
The links provided below are some very tough rants on individual points. While we are not as radical as the authors of those pages, it might be interesting to read some hardliner’s opinions.
These links are not part of the list-rules!
HTML and MIME: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
Autoreplies: http://www.informationweek.com/…
Attention: The following link is a tough one. If you follow what is in there, you will probably never ask a question again.
Research before asking: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
These links are not part of the list-rules!
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Welcome to LinuxBasics.org - The online community that helps people to get Linux installed and running.
During this tour, we will guide you through our website, which has many facets which wait to be explored
The biggest project we are running is our Linux course, based on the LBook.
The book is stored in wiki-format, which enables us to update and correct it as we go.
Discussion for the course is on our Forum
Our Forum is used for discussion of Linux and for questions and answers.
Search the mailing-list that was used prior to the Forum.
The questions and answers from the list are stored in the list's archives in order to help others with the same problems.
Every weekend, we meet to chat in IRC. These meetings are NOT mandatory, but are a nice chance to get to know each other better.
IRC is also a great tool to solve many problems, since it is very quick and easy to ask for more details if you need them.
The tutorials are one of the oldest sections on the LBo-website.
Here you find explanations on how to do specific tasks in Linux. Many of the tutorials were created after a certain problem
has been discussed (and usually solved :) on the mailing-list.
The tutorials are categorized in
In the links section, you find outbound links to other valuable resources.
One of our later additions to the site. We maintain a mirror of the Linux Documentation Project. This is our contribution to the "home of the HOWTOs"
Another later addition is the LBlog which focuses on how to do stuff on the Linux Desktop. It begins with the basics on installing Ubuntu.
Using the integrated site-search, you can search the tutorials, the LBook and all other wiki-pages
Simply type the search term into the box in the upper-right corner of our webpages
As a community, we depend on your feedback and collaboration. So, if you have something to share with others, please contact us. If you have a suggestion for a topic you would like to see covered here, please add it on the Wishlist.
There are many ways to contribute: You can answer questions on the Forum, you can write a complete tutorial or just a step-by-step documentation on how you completed a specific task using linux. Ask questions if the information on this site is not clear, tell us if we got something wrong, spell-check our writings, whatever.
We are looking forward to meeting you at LinuxBasics.org
Anita, Jisao, Sam and Stefan