Popular
general Linux forums are available from www.LinuxQuestions.org, www.LinuxForums.org,
and www.LinuxHelp.net.
Communities also gather around specific software projects and Linux distributions. SourceForge
(http://sourceforge.net/) is home to thousands of open source software projects. Go to
the SourceForge.net site and try keyword searches for topics that interest you (for example, image
gallery or video editing). Each project provides links to project home pages, forums, and software
download sites. There are always projects looking for people to help write code or documentation
or just participate in discussions.
You??™ll find that most major Linux distributions have associated mailing lists and forums. You can go
directly to the Web sites for the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Linux (http://fedoraproject.org/),
Debian (www.debian.com), Ubuntu (http://ubuntuforums.org), Gentoo (www.gentoo.org),
and others to learn how to participate in forums and contribute to those projects.
Major Software Projects
Some software projects have grown beyond the status of being simply a component of Linux or
some other UNIX derivative. Some of these projects are sponsored and maintained by organizations
that oversee multiple open source projects. The most popular open source projects and organizations
include the following:
The Apache Software Foundation (www.
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