O Matt Welsh exei anakoinwsei ton kainourio toy `Installation and Getting Started' odhgo, ekdosh 2.2.2. Epishs, to Linux Documentation Project (to LDP) exei jekinhsei diafora biblia poy briskontai se diaforetiko stadio oloklhrwshs, ta opoia (biblia) yparxoyn sto SunSite, ston katalogo /pub/Linux/docs/LDP/. Krathste epafh mesw toy comp.os.linux.announce. H selida toy Linux Documentation Project yparxei sto <http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP>.
Toylaxiston ta parakatw sites kratoun antigrafa toy Linux.
Textual name Numeric address Linux directory
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tsx-11.mit.edu 18.172.1.2 /pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu 152.2.22.81 /pub/Linux
ftp.funet.fi 128.214.248.6 /pub/OS/Linux
net.tamu.edu 128.194.177.1 /pub/linux
ftp.mcc.ac.uk 130.88.203.12 /pub/linux
src.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.2.1 /packages/linux
fgb1.fgb.mw.tu-muenchen.de 129.187.200.1 /pub/linux
ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de 131.159.0.110 /pub/comp/os/linux
ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de 137.226.4.111 /pub/linux
ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de 137.226.225.3 /pub/Linux
ftp.Germany.EU.net 192.76.144.75 /pub/os/Linux
ftp.ibp.fr 132.227.60.2 /pub/linux
ftp.uu.net 137.39.1.9 /systems/unix/linux
wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 mirrors/linux
ftp.win.tue.nl 131.155.70.100 /pub/linux
ftp.stack.urc.tue.nl 131.155.2.71 /pub/linux
srawgw.sra.co.jp 133.137.4.3 /pub/os/linux
cair.kaist.ac.kr /pub/Linux
ftp.denet.dk 129.142.6.74 /pub/OS/linux
NCTUCCCA.edu.tw 140.111.1.10 /Operating-Systems/Linux
nic.switch.ch 130.59.1.40 /mirror/linux
cnuce_arch.cnr.it 131.114.1.10 /pub/Linux
ftp.monash.edu.au 130.194.11.8 /pub/linux
ftp.dstc.edu.au 130.102.181.31 /pub/linux
ftp.sydutech.usyd.edu.au 129.78.192.2 /pub/linux
To tsx-11.mit.edu kai to fgb1.fgb.mw.tu-muenchen.de einai ta epishma sites gia ton Linux-GCC (GNU C Compiler gia to Linux). Merika sites kratoun mirror apo alla sites. Parakaloume na xrhsimopoieite to site poy einai pio konta (se epipedo diktuoy) se esas opote ayto einai dynaton.
Toylaxiston to sunsite.unc.edu kai to ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de prosferoyn yphresies ftpmail. Steilte mhnyma sthn dieu8ynsh ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu h sthn ftp@informatik.tu-muenchen.de gia boh8eia.
An niw8ete oti exete xa8ei, dokimaste na koitajete sto sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/distributions/, opoy diafores dianomes prosferontai dwrean. Oi dianomes poy protimountai polu teleytaia einai oi: Red Hat Linux, Debian, kai Slackware.
Oi pio polloi twra egka8istoun to Linux apo CDROM's. Oi dianomes exoyn megalwsei se arketes ekatontades MBs apo Linux software, kai to ``katebasma'' olwn aytwn apo ena 28.8 modem pairnei polu wra.
Yparxoyn basika duo tropoi na parei kaneis to Linux se CDROM: san meros enos archive kapoioy FTP site, h apo ton kataskeyasth ths sygkekrimenhs dianomhs. An parete kapoio archive, sxedon panta 8a exete thn eykairia na dialejete anamesa se arketes dianomes, alla syxna den yparxei yposthrijh. An parete thn dianomh katey8eian apo ton kataskeyasth, pairnete synh8ws mono mia dianomh, alla tis pio polles fores exete kai yposthrijh kapoioy eidoys (tis pio polles fores yposthrijh gia thn diadikasia ths egkatastashs).
Yparxoyn polles BBS's poy exoyn arxeia gia Linux. Mia lista me aytes stelnetai syxna sto comp.os.linux.announce. Rwthste filoys kai omades xrhstwn (user groups), h paraggeilete kapoia apo tis emporikes dianomes. Mia lista me tis emporikes dianomes yparxei sto ``Linux distribution HOWTO'', dia8esimo apo to SunSite ston katalogo sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/distribution-HOWTO. H lista ayth stelnetai kai sto newsgroup comp.os.linux.announce arketa syxna.