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