Newsgroups

To keep up with Linux developments, you need access to the Internet, especially to the newsgroups. You can find discussions on specific Linux-related topics in the newsgroups listed in Table G-1.

Table G-1: Linux Newsgroups on the Internet
Newsgroup	Provides the Following
`comp.os.linux.admin`	Information about Linux system administration
`comp.os.linux.advocacy`	Discussions about promoting Linux
`comp.os.linux.announce`	Important announcements about Linux. (This is a moderated newsgroup, which means you must mail an article to the moderator, who then posts it to the newsgroup.)
`comp.os.linux.answers`	Questions and answers about Linux. (All the Linux HOWTOs are posted in this moderated newsgroup.)
`comp.os.linux.development`	Current Linux development work
`comp.os.linux.development.apps`	Linux application development
`comp.os.linux.development.system`	Linux operating system development
`comp.os.linux.hardware`	Discussions about Linux and various hardware
`comp.os.linux.help`	Help with various aspects of Linux
`comp.os.linux.misc`	Miscellaneous topics about Linux
`comp.os.linux.networking`	Networking under Linux
`comp.os.linux.setup`	Linux setup and installation
`comp.os.linux.x`	Discussions about setting up and running the X Window System under Linux
`linux.redhat`	Discussions about CentOS Linux

You can use Mozilla to read the newsgroups. For a newsgroup, use a URL of the form news://my.newsserver.com/newsgroup, in which my.newsserver.com is the fully qualified domain name of your news server (your Internet service provider should give you this name), and newsgroup is the name of the newsgroup you want to read. For example, assuming that your news server is news.myisp.net, you can browse the comp.os .linux.setup newsgroup by typing the following URL in the Location field of the Netscape Web browser:

news://news.myisp.net/comp.os.linux.setup

You can also use the Google Groups page at http://groups.google.com/ to search for specific items in the comp.os.linux newsgroups or browse that newsgroup.