Documentation

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A goal of the openSUSE project is to provide the highest quality documentation to the communities the project serves. The openSUSE Community creates, edits, and refines comprehensive documentation, in the form of this wiki as well as traditional documentation, in many languages.

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General information

• Project overview
• FAQ about the openSUSE project
• How to migrate to a new openSUSE version
• Migrating from Microsoft Windows
• Acronyms - What do all those darn three letter words mean?
• Concepts - An introduction to many openSUSE/Linux concepts
• Statistics - A variety of statistics about openSUSE's usage.
• openSUSE/SUSE Linux on Wikipedia

User Documentation

	Get and Install Articles covering all aspects of the installation of openSUSE, including some special ways of getting the source files.
	Package Management Install, remove or update software.
	Package List Package details for each media
	Configuration System and application configuration articles.
	Hardware Supported platforms, hardware compatibility lists, tweaking, optimizing, and troubleshooting.
	HOWTOs HowTo guides on a wide variety of topics.
	Users FAQ Got a question, find an answer here. You can also post a question.
	Lessons for Lizards (LfL) The next-generation offline documentation provided for the openSUSE community.

User feedback

Wishlists These wish lists are a central point for feedback from the community about what is wanted in future releases.

Official Novell Documentation

	Novell openSUSE 11.1 Documentation (pdf/html)		Novell AppArmor (pdf/html)
	Novell openSUSE 11.0 Documentation (pdf/html)		Novell Cool Solutions Linux
	Novell openSUSE 10.3 Documentation (pdf/html)		The Developer Shortcut Guide to SUSE Linux (sponsored by Novell)

Documentation for older openSUSE/SUSE Linux versions is available from http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse.html.

Documentation Source Files in XML

The documentation of openSUSE is written in XML based on the NovDoc DTD, which is a subset of the DocBook DTD. openSUSE 11.1 Documentation sources openSUSE 11.0 Documentation sources openSUSE 10.3 Documentation sources

Errata

The list of the bugs and printing errors found in the openSUSE documentation: Errata in the openSUSE 11.1 Documentation Errata in the openSUSE 11.0 Documentation Errata in the openSUSE 10.3 Documentation

Developer Documentation

	Development Development documentation by the community.		Making a openSUSE based distribution Documentation for making a SUSE based distribution
	SUSE Package Conventions Documentation for making SUSE RPM packages		Build Service The Build Service provides a tool to create and release open source software for openSUSE and other Linux distributions easily on different hardware architectures and for a broad user audience.

Books

• The Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel is not about any specific operating system or distribution. It is about making a successfull opensource project and that makes it worth reading to any openSUSE member.

• Linux in a Nutshell Now in it's 5th edition printing is a highly recommended book from beginning Linux users to the more advanced. Linux in a Nutshell 5th edition will get anyone new to Linux up and running with a base of knowledge from which to grow from - in addition it offers more advanced users a handy detailed reference.

openSUSE internals

openSUSE special configuration tools are usually named "YaST", because most of the work is done through YaST, but there are several independant tools one can get to know. We will try to have here a better documentation or links for these tools.

• YaST Documentation Portal
• SaX2 the X Window configuration utility
• SuSEfirewall2 - The openSUSE firewall script
• siga - The System Information Gathering tool of openSUSE
• SuSEconfig - The system wide configuration script and its config files.