Getting help / Documentation
There are some places on this wiki and the larger web where you should look first when you are looking for help on CentOS.
Documentation on this Wiki
This Wiki will be growing, so if you are coming back some time later, you might want to take a look at the changes list to see what has been added or modified since your last visit.
Search for any information on the CentOS Wiki or the Internet
Frequently Asked Questions about CentOS in general and the different CentOS releases
Tips And Tricks are short articles with helpful information
HowTos are longer articles with details on how to get things done
Additional Resources like information about Software Repositories, supported Hardware and Software, and information about CentOS mirrors.
CentOS wiki in Spanish - Tips and Tricks, FAQs and a little more information
Manuals and other Documentation
The Documentation section is your starting point to the official CentOS documentation.
Manuals: official CentOS documentation and manuals
The Official CentOS Homepage
The CentOS homepage has a lot of information on many CentOS related aspects.
The Mailing Lists
The CentOS project runs several mailing lists on which you can ask your questions or help other people with the questions they have. All the CentOS developers as well as many long time Linux and CentOS users are on the lists.
List of mailinglists about CentOS (also for Brazilian Portugues, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Czech and Japanese)
The Forums
The CentOS Forums give you a place to ask questions about CentOS. Many highly knowledgeable CentOS community members are helping other users. Please choose a topic that is appropriate for your question.
The CentOS developers' Blog aggregator
CentOS developers are interesting people, and their individual blogs are collected into a feed at Planet CentOS.
IRC
For help in real time, #centos on irc.freenode.net is another valuable source of information about CentOS issues. Please read the CentOS IRC Guidelines first.
Web Search
No, we're not running a CentOS version of Google. But Google (and other search engines) know very much about CentOS already, if you ask them correctly. And, when asking on the mailing list or in #centos, almost everybody expects that you searched for the problem you had on Google. Sure, you will get help. But you will get much smarter help, if you ask smart questions
An overview of search resources about CentOS (including tips to help you filter better)
