SUSE LINUX Documentation - Index of
SUSE LINUX Documentation - Index of
SUSE LINUX Documentation - Index of
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4.8 Usenet<br />
Created in 1979 before the rise <strong>of</strong> the Internet, Usenet is one <strong>of</strong> the oldest computer<br />
networks and still in active use. The format and transmission <strong>of</strong> Usenet articles is very<br />
similar to e-mail, but is developed for a many-to-many communication.<br />
Usenet is organized into seven topical categories: comp.* for computer-related discussions,<br />
misc.* for miscellaneous topics, news.* for newsgroup-related matters,<br />
rec.* for recreation and entertainment, sci.* for science-related discussions, soc.*<br />
for social discussions, and talk.* for various controversial topics. The top levels are<br />
split in subgroups. For instance, comp.os.linux.hardware is a newsgroup for<br />
Linux-specific hardware issues.<br />
Before you can post an article, have your client connect to a news server and subscribe<br />
to a specific newsgroup. News clients include Knode or Evolution. Each news server<br />
communicates to other news servers and exchanges articles with them. Not all newsgroups<br />
may be available on your news server.<br />
Interesting newsgroups for Linux users are comp.os.linux.apps,<br />
comp.os.linux.questions, and comp.os.linux.hardware. If you cannot<br />
find a specific newsgroup, go to http://www.linux.org/docs/usenetlinux<br />
.html. Follow the general Usenet rules available online at http://www.faqs<br />
.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/.<br />
4.9 Standards and Specifications<br />
There are various sources that provide information about standards or specifications.<br />
http://www.linuxbase.org<br />
The Free Standards Group is an independent nonpr<strong>of</strong>it organization that promotes<br />
the distribution <strong>of</strong> free s<strong>of</strong>tware and open source s<strong>of</strong>tware. The organization endeavors<br />
to achieve this by defining distribution-independent standards. The maintenance<br />
<strong>of</strong> several standards, such as the important LSB (Linux Standard Base), is supervised<br />
by this organization.<br />
http://www.w3.org<br />
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is certainly one <strong>of</strong> the best-known<br />
standards organizations. It was founded in October 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee and<br />
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