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Mailing Lists

Mailing lists are a way to communicate with other openSUSE community members. For more information about mailing lists, see Wikipedia article Electronic mailing list and openSUSE wiki articles about openSUSE mailing list netiquette, that describes consent on what is appropriate on our lists.

• opensuse@opensuse.org - This is the list where most technical support and discussions can occur; start here!

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Please note that the support mailing list is very active and can send you over 100 emails per day! There is also:

• opensuse-project@opensuse.org - The mailing list where non-technical aspects of the openSUSE distribution and community are discussed. Join us!

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• See here for other mailing lists
• see here for advanced mailing lists use info, which also gives some background on technicalities like subscribing to openSUSE mail lists and leaving (unsubscribing); they can make your openSUSE experience much better.

Instant Chat (IRC)

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a great way to connect with openSUSE community members in real time chat and for support. IRC uses popular client software, such as Konversation, Kvirc, X-Chat or instant messenger clients that support the IRC protocol. All are included in openSUSE. Although chatting occurs in a group forum, you can also privately chat with online members.

The main support channel is #opensuse on irc.opensuse.org. To start chatting, simply click on the #opensuse link! To see a complete list of all IRC channels, and support channels in other languages, head over to Communicate/IRC. If you are new to IRC take a look at Communicate/IRCforNewbies.

Web Forums

Web Forums are like bulletin boards. You need no additional software to participate. Your Web browser is sufficient. For in-depth information about Web Forums, see wikipedia:Internet forum.

The two most popular openSUSE forums are SUSEforums.net and SUSELinuxSupport.de; head over to either of those websites to jump right into the discussion.

For a list of all other web forums, see Communicate/Forums.

Other Methods

There are plenty of other ways to communicate with openSUSE users or to get support:

• Usenet (Newsgroups). See Communicate/Usenet.
• Jabber Multi-User-Chat (MUC). See Communicate/Jabber.
• Wikis, a great source of documentation. See in particular this site, openSUSE.org and the openSUSE Community website: openSUSE-Community.org.
• A blog (or weblog) is a Web site in which openSUSE community members post about things on a regular basis. Planet SUSE is the main aggregation of these blogs.