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>Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO</TITLE
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>Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO</H1
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>Jean-Philippe Guérard</A
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>Version 1.7<BR></SPAN
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>2006-05-25<BR></P
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>Revision History</B
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>Revision 1.7</TD
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>2006-05-25</TD
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>Revised by: JPG</TD
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>Two updates following suggestions of Oguz Yarimtepe (the Basic
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Unix Tutorial of Idaho State University is not available
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anymore, update of the link to the Why use Google page). Added
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a section listing translations of this document.</TD
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>Revision 1.6</TD
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>2005-08-06</TD
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>Added FOLDOC (thanks to Howard Mann for suggesting this).
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General document update and cleanup. Added the text of the Open
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Publication Licence at the end of the document.</TD
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>Revision 1.5</TD
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>2002-10-20</TD
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>More dead links removal & URL updates.
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Author and copyright updated as per Horward Mann request.</TD
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>2002-03-04</TD
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>Dead links removal. Outdated links update. Revision of the
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HOWTOs and FAQs sections.</TD
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>2000-07-24</TD
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DocBook.</TD
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>
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Troubleshooting a Linux-related issue is often perceived as a difficult
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task. But, often, the solution is just a few clicks away on the
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internet. This document will direct Linux users to resources available
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on the Internet that provide access to a vast amount of Linux-related
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information useful in the troubleshooting problems.
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</P
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>Table of Contents</B
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>1. <A
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HREF="intro.html"
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>Introduction</A
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>Document Updates</A
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>Copyright and License</A
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>Feedback and Corrections</A
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>Translations</A
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>1.5. <A
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>Document history</A
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>2. <A
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>Frequently-Asked-Questions (FAQs)</A
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>3. <A
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HREF="onlinesupport.html"
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>Online Support Sections</A
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>4. <A
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HREF="searchengines.html"
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>Internet Search Engines</A
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>4.1. <A
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HREF="searchengines.html#google"
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>Google.com</A
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>5. <A
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HREF="usenet.html"
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>Usenet Newsgroup Archives</A
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>6. <A
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>Mailing List Archives</A
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>7. <A
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HREF="howtos.html"
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>HOWTOs</A
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>8. <A
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>Online User's Manuals</A
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>9. <A
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HREF="unixrefs.html"
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>Online Unix References and Tutorials</A
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>10. <A
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>Miscellaneous Resources</A
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>10.1. <A
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HREF="miscresources.html#Xwindow"
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>Release Notes and Available Documentation related to the X Window Server</A
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>10.2. <A
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HREF="miscresources.html#gnumanuals"
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>GNU Software and Manuals</A
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>10.3. <A
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HREF="miscresources.html#FOLDOC"
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>The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing</A
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HREF="miscresources.html#webopedia"
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>An online dictionary of computer and technology terms</A
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>Concluding Comments</A
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>Open Publication License</A
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>Requirements on both unmodified and modified versions</A
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>Good-practice recommendations</A
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