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gNewSense has a strong community that is ready to help you. Because users and contributors span the globe, a key element to the project is communication. IRC , mailing lists and forums provide quick and easy ways to communicate.
Try to abide by our community guidelines, if you are unsure what they mean feel free to ask for clarification.
Before seeking help from others, please take a little time to review the huge variety of self-help resources that are available. Check out the gNewSense FAQ and Documentation. If you are already using gNewSense, man and info pages provide a lot of useful information. You can access these by using the man and info commands. For example, to use man to learn about apt-get, you would use:
man apt-get
Press q to quit.
To read the info pages on gcc, you can use:
info gcc
Press q to quit.
There are a number of other documents available on your system under the documentation folder at /usr/share/doc/.
While these commands work from a terminal, other easy-to-use tools are also available. Check the menus for your desktop and programs. Don't forget to check the gNewSense Documentation .
If you believe you have found a bug, please fill it in the Bugs page
The gnewsense-users mailing list is the place for most questions.
Development discussions happen in the gNewSense development mailing list, gnewsense-dev, and we encourage community users and developers interested in gNewSense to participate there. You can post in this list for development-related discussions that are not straight-forward bug reports or feature requests. This is not a suitable place to ask general questions.
Mailing lists are special email addresses which send email to all users who have subscribed to them. Sending an email to a mailing list reaches all users interested in discussing a specific topic and users who are available to help other users with that topic.
To subscribe to a mailing list, follow the appropriate link below and fill out the subscription form. The mailing lists are hosted at http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo.
NOTE Certain etiquette is required to help mailing lists work efficiently and smoothly. See our guidelines for specific points to follow while using gNewSense mailing lists.
IRC, or Internet Relay Chat, is a real-time, text-based form of communication. You can have conversations with multiple people in an open channel or chat with someone privately one to one.
To talk to other gNewSense participants, log onto the freenode IRC network.
NOTE You may be required to register your user nickname (nick) and identify with that nick. Otherwise, you may not be able to join or be heard on the IRC channel. There is a page describing how to register your nick at freenode.net.
To learn how to use IRC, refer to the IRC Tutorial at irchelp.org and IRC HowTo .
We invite you to drop in and say hi.
Forums provide gNewSense users with an easy way of getting help on any issues that may arise. Most of the forums are extremely active and provide structured access to a number of knowledgeable and helpful gNewSense users.
You are welcome to join the gNewSense Forum
There are many great community websites beyond the gNewSense project that may be of interest to you.
gNewSense is a project developed by volunteers all over the world and it's supported by the Free Software Foundation.
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All documentation is available under the terms of the GFDL with no invariant sections. ( note on the license )
Artwork is Free Cultural Work and is available under the terms of the cc-by-sa license.