LinuxQuestions.org (commonly abbreviated LQ) is a community-driven, self-help

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for

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users. As of August 2011, it has over 462,200 registered members. Started in 2000 by

Jeremy Garcia Jeremy Garcia (born October 9, 1977) is a writer, podcaster, speaker and founder of LinuxQuestions.org. He was born in Buffalo, New York and attended the University at Buffalo. History Garcia founded LinuxQuestions.org in 2000, shortly after ...

, LQ is one of the most popular free software community sites and is usually reputed for helpfulness. The most popular section of the site are the

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s, where

users can share their knowledge and experience. Newcomers to the Linux world (often called

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s) can ask questions and Linux experts can offer advice. Topics include

security Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) caused by others, by restraining the freedom of others to act. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be of persons and social ...

, installation, and

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. Currently available forums fall into the following categories: LinuxQuestions.org, Linux, Enterprise Linux, Other *NIX Forums, Non-*NIX Forums. As of April 2009, the forums had more than 3.5 million posts. On March 5, 2004, LinuxQuestions.org set up a

wiki A wiki ( ) is an online hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience, using a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project, and could be either open to the pu ...

aimed at building the largest online Linux

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. The software used for this task is

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. LQ also has a section where one can download CD/

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ISO image An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system. IS ...

s of Linux installation and

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s. Other than the download section and forums LQ also has the following sections: * Linux

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* LQ

Radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...

Linux distribution A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and, often, a package management system. Linux users usually obtain their operating system by downloading one ...

s reviews * Book reviews * Linux Tutorials * Linux

hardware compatibility list A hardware compatibility list (HCL) is a list of computer hardware (typically including many types of peripheral devices) that is compatible with a particular operating system or device management software. In today's world, there is a vast amount o ...

* Articles (member written and submitted) * Linux

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* Member

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s Despite its growth, it is still essentially run by one person — owner and founder

— with help from a team of moderators. LQ is active in the community, often having either a stall or presence at

Linux conferences Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...

or expositions. These are primarily in the

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, but have also been in the

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and in

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