Software and Application ... Help Forums

[vrkalak]

I see posts about problems that members are having with this or that Application or Program, all the time.

While there are members of this Forum, that use and know something about each Application ... the OS Devs and the Mint Team really have no say or input into how an Application and/or Open Source software works.

Almost every major Application or Browser or Software Project in GNU/Linux, BSD and Open Source has a Help Forum set-up to help the people that use each particular program or project.
Certainly, every Linux OS Distribution has a Help Forum set up for their distro. Well, so does everything else Open Source ... usually, have a Forum, a Wiki page and a FAQ page.

I know that the Forum Moderators and regular Members of this Forum stress the importance of searching and trying to find the answers yourself, before asking in the Forum.
And remembering that Google (or any search engine) is your friend.

But ... most people fail to think of looking for a Help Forum for a particular Linux or Open Source Application.
The various Help Forums have some very knowledgeable people and are usually a wealth of information about their project.

I would like to make this thread a place where Mint Members can post a link to some of the various Application/Software/Project Help Forums they have found and used.

I will add more stuff and links as I find them ... please, do the same. I believe, these links would be helpful to new Linux users.
Just spend a few minutes searching and becoming familiar with the various Apps and Projects in Linux and Open Source ... you might even learn something along the way.
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For instance ...

Compiz
Compiz Home >> http://www.compiz.org/
Compiz Wiki >> http://wiki.compiz.org/
Planet Compiz >> http://planet.compiz.org/
Compiz, also, has a large Help Forum >> http://forum.compiz.org/

Firefox/Mozilla
Firefox Support Forum >> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38
Firefox FAQ >> http://forums.mozillazine.org/faq.php?s ... 2e508cdbc5
Mozilla Forum >> http://forums.mozillazine.org/
Complete listing of Firefox 'Reported' Bugs >> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Issues_%28Firefox%29
Firefox On-line Help >> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/

Conky
Main Conky site >> http://conky.sourceforge.net/
Conky Wiki >> http://wiki.conky.be/index.php/Main_Page
Hard-core Conky >> http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/
Official Conky blog >> http://blog.conky.be/
Also, for Conky most every major Linux distro Forum, has a good Conky section.

Xfce -- Desktop Environment
Main Xfce site >> http://www.xfce.org/
Xfce Forum >> http://forum.xfce.org/
Xfce Wiki >> http://wiki.xfce.org/
Planet Xfce >> http://blog.xfce.org/
Eye-candy for Xfce >> http://xfce-look.org/

Gnome -- Desktop Environment
Main Gnome site >> http://www.gnome.org/
Gnome Forum >> http://gnomesupport.org/forums/
Gnome User Manual >> http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/
Planet Gnome >> http://planet.gnome.org/
Gnome Wiki >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME
Gnome blog/journal >> http://gnomejournal.org/
Gnome UserGroups >> http://live.gnome.org/UserGroups
Eye-candy for Gnome >> http://gnome-look.org/

[vrkalak]

VideoLAN - Media Player
Main VLC site >> https://videolan.org/vlc/
VLC Forum >> http://forum.videolan.org/
VLC Wiki >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player
VLC Projects >> http://www.videolan.org/videolan/
VLC Goodies >> http://www.videolan.org/goodies.html
VLC Community Portal >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal
Planet VLC >> http://www.videolan.org/news.html
VLC FAQ >> http://www.videolan.org/support/faq.html

GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program
Main GIMP site >> http://www.gimp.org/
GIMP Forum >> http://www.gimptalk.com/
GIMP User FAQ >> http://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html
GIMP Tutorials >> http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

Virtualbox
Virtualbox - Linux Host - Build Instructions >> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux%20 ... structions
Virtualbox Wiki >> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_architecture
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Porting_VirtualBox
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Build_instructions
Virtualbox Forum >> http://forums.virtualbox.org/
Virtualbox FAQ > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ

[exploder]

Great idea vrkalak!

There is a wealth of information on bugs in the system base here.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs

[vrkalak]

Some of the various Linux Distro Forums that I belong to:

Debian User Forum >> http://forums.debian.net
Crunchbang Forum >> http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/
Archbang Forum >> http://archbang.47.forumer.com
Arch/Linux Forum >> http://bbs.archlinux.org/index.php
Fedora Forum >> http://forums.fedoraforum.org
Ubuntu Forum >> http://ubuntuforums.org
Ubuntu-Geek Forum >> http://ubuntugeek.com/forum/
Sidux Forum >> http://sidux.com/index.php
Slitaz Forum >> http://forum.slitaz.org/
Puppy/Linux Forum >> http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/
Linux Forum >> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/
LinuxQuestions Forum >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/
JustLinux Forum >> http://www.justlinux.com/forum/
Spiral-Linear Forum >> http://spiralinear.org/index.php
Adventures in Linux Forum >> http://linuxadventures.boardhost.com/index.php
Tech Patterns Forum >> http://techpatterns.com/forums/
Xfce Forum >> http://forum.xfce.org
Inkscape Forum >> http://www.inkscapeforum.com/

Interested in making your own Linux OS? Check out these.

OS Devs - Operating system Developers
OS Devs Wiki >> http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
OS Devs Forum >> http://forum.osdev.org/
OS Devs Projects >> http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects
OS Devs FAQ >> http://wiki.osdev.org/Category:FAQ

[vrkalak]

Google - Search Engine and Google Apps.

Main Google site >> http://google.com/ig
Google Help Forum >> http://www.google.com/support/forum/
Google Community Forum >> http://www.googlecommunity.com/forum/
Digital Point Forum/Google >> http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5
Official Google blog >> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
Google's Wiki page >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
Google Discussion Forum >> http://www.webproworld.com/webmaster-fo ... sion-Forum
The V7 Network-Google Forum >> http://www.v7n.com/forums/google-forum/
Optimizing Google Forum >> http://forums.seochat.com/google-optimization-7/

With Google, there seems to be a Forum for each different App. in Google's Menu ... you'd have to do a search them yourself. There are toooo many.

AND ... Google, also, has a separate Search Engine specifically for Linux >>>> http://google.com/linux/