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General information

FAQ about the openSUSE project

Migrating from Microsoft Windows

Acronyms - What do all those darn three letter words mean?

Concepts - An introduction to many openSUSE/Linux concepts

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.
	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 11.0 Documentation (pdf/html)
	Novell openSUSE 10.3 Documentation (pdf/html)
	Novell openSUSE 10.2 Documentation (pdf/html)		Novell AppArmor (pdf/html)
	Novell SUSE Linux 10.1 Documentation (pdf)		Novell Cool Solutions Linux
	Novell SUSE Linux 10.0 Documentation (pdf)		Novell Cool Solutions SUSE Linux Pro
	Novell SUSE Linux 9.3 Documentation (pdf)		The Developer Shortcut Guide to SUSE Linux (sponsored by Novell)

Documentation Source Files in XML

The documentation of openSUSE/SUSE Linux is written in XML based on the NovDoc DTD, which is a subset of the DocBook DTD. openSUSE 11.0 Documentation sources openSUSE 10.3 Documentation sources openSUSE 10.2 Documentation sources SUSE Linux 10.1 Documentation sources

Errata

The list of the bugs and printing errors found in the openSUSE documentation: Errata in the openSUSE 11.0 Documentation Errata in the openSUSE 10.3 Documentation Errata in the openSUSE 10.2 Documentation Errata in the SUSE Linux 10.1 Documentation

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.

Developer Documentation

	Development Development documentation by the community.		Making a SUSE based distribution Documentation for making a SUSE based distribution
	SUSE Package Conventions Documentation for making SUSE RPM packages

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.