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There are many useful sources for information about Linux.

• O'Reilly and Associates offers a number of useful books related to maintaining and running variants of Unix, and several books specifically on Linux. Some of these books are available at the Coop.
• For general information on configuring a host for use on the net, you should consult the ``NET-2-HOWTO'' in /mit/linux/docs/HOWTO. They may also be installed on your system in /usr/doc/HOWTO. Basic configuration for MITnet is covered in the SIPB Linux Net Installation (``Installing RedHat-Athena Linux on MITnet'') document. If you need help after reading these files, call or drop by the SIPB office (W20-557, x3-7788) and we will try to help.
• The Usenet newsgroups in the comp.os.linux.* hierarchy discuss setting up, configuring and using the Linux operating system. You may want to read the newsgroups for a while to get a feel for what problems other users encounter.
• MIT has four mailing lists concerning Linux, all of which are archived in discuss:
  

  

  
  Please type blanche linux-announce -a $USER to add yourself to the linux-announce mailing list. You should probably also consider reading linux-help because other users may have the same questions you do.

• There are many WWW pages concerning Linux. Two useful ones are given by the URLs http://web.mit.edu/linux/www/ and http://www.linux.org/
• Man pages are invaluable in gaining an understanding of how commands work and how to use them properly. You can read man pages by using the man command. A typical usage would be man tar to get help on the usage for ``tar''.