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someone coming from a UNIX or BSD background, this is probably true. You don??™t have to wait for
graphical tools to pop up and almost everything is covered on a man page.
Man pages are the traditional means of documenting commands, file formats, devices,
system calls, and most any other component of a UNIX or Linux system. Man pages date
back to the very first UNIX systems. You can read man pages using the man command, followed by a
component name, from any shell. To learn about how the man page system itself works, type man man.
Slackware Internet Sites
The Slackware home page (www.slackware.com) is a good place to start looking for information
about Slackware. There are two main mailing lists plus an IRC channel available through
the Web site, as well as links to download sites, some documentation, and the Slackware Store
(store.slackware.com).
There??™s a Slackware Linux Essentials online book (www.slackbook.org/) and four FAQs
(www.slackware.com/faq/) available from the Slackware site. There??™s no ???news??? to speak
of at the Slackware site, so the best way to keep up on what??™s happening with the project is to
read the change logs (www.slackware.com/changelog/).
For information on the Slackware version described in this chapter (Slackware 12.
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