Where do you go for help and news?

[Paul Lussier]

As one who usally turns to google or this group when I need help (or,
failing those two, the USENIX list), I find that I'm often behind
what's going on in the Linux world at large (my subscription to Linux
Journal has lapsed due to lack of time to read it).

Being a sysadmin by day, with more than a decade of
designing/building/managing UNIX environments, I tend to know exactly
what I need to learn and query or post with very a narrow focus which
usually yields very good results.

So, with that in mind, when referring others to "help" sites on the
web, I find that I'm referring them to places I'd frequent with the
assumption they have the same base knowledge I do, but just lack the
specifics of the subject being discussed.  Of course, this is also
usually exactly wrong :)

As a case in point, this week a good friend here at work, who knows
his (Cisco) networking better than I do, has almost no basic sysadmin
knowledge.  He doesn't understand the difference between RAID sets and
LUNs, or why NTFS fragments and UFSes don't (he apparently doesn't
really understand exactly what fragmentation is...), etc.  While
watching me type a bunch of command line "scripts-on-the-fly", he
asked me, "So, what does it take to get to this level of understanding
Linux?".  Needless to say, I was kind of caught off guard.  What do I
tell him? "Ditch Windows, increase your pain threshold to nearly
intolerable, and don't use anything but a UNIX-based OS for 15+ years?

I've obviously recommended my standard list of books (Nemeth et al,
Frisch, etc.)  But sometimes you need more than books.

So, what sites to people here frequent?  What Linux-related RSS feeds,
blogs, help sites to people tune into to increase their knowledge?
What other suggestions are there for people new to Linux to reach for
when they need help understanding some of the more heady
sysadmin-related topics?

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Seeya,
Paul
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