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<span class="before:content-['–_']">Last review: 2022-11-15</span> </div> <div id="preamble"> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="quoteblock"> <blockquote> <div class="paragraph"> <p>The Fedora documentation provides extensive information on how to install and use the Fedora operating system and the software packaged by the Fedora Project. Fedora is a large project. Therefore, the focus here is on basic explanations and references to detailed documentation of the various subprojects. A special focus is on making it easier for new users to get started.</p> </div> </blockquote> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Free Software has produced outstanding technical achievements and solutions over the past decades. Just one example is the Apache server, which is used today by the vast majority of websites and provides the entire Internet with information. This quickly overshadows a fact that Richard Stallman emphasized as early as 1997:</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p><em>"The biggest deficiency in free operating systems is not in the software — it is the lack of good free manuals that we can include in these systems.” <sup class="footnote">[<a id="_footnoteref_1" class="footnote" href="#_footnotedef_1" title="View footnote.">1</a>]</sup></em></p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>It is this spirit that inspires the Fedora documentation team to do the often tough and time-consuming work on our documentation.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>You’ll find here a bunch of information:</p> </div> <div class="dlist"> <dl> <dt class="hdlist1"><a href="getting-started/" class="xref page">Getting started</a></dt> <dd> <p><strong>First time with Fedora Linux?</strong> New users find here extensive information to get Fedora up and running</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"><a href="system-upgrade/" class="xref page">System upgrade</a></dt> <dd> <p><strong>Do you already have a Fedora Linux edition or Spin up and running?</strong> You don’t need to reinstall your system to get the new release. Fedora has put a lot of work into making an in-place update reliable and fully automated.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"><a href="release-notes/" class="xref page">Fedora 37 release notes</a></dt> <dd> <p>Contains extensive information about new and modified features of the current release. Users are advised to skim this information to check if they may be affected by one of the changes or are now able to resolve an issue with a new feature</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"><a href="../f36/release-notes/" class="xref page">Fedora 36 release notes</a></dt> <dd> <p>Fedora supports the current and the previous release. As a reference here is a quick link to the previous release notes.</p> <div class="paragraph"> <p>In the top bar, you can select older release notes.</p> </div> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1">A newbie’s primer</dt> <dd> <p>Are you new to Linux? 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Additional information about available resources such as IRC channels and mailing lists is available at <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help" class="bare">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help</a>.</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Before you open a new discussion or ask anyone for help on IRC, you should always do some research on your own. If you are encountering an issue, there is usually a good chance that someone else ran into the same problem before you and published a solution somewhere. Opening a discussion about something already explained elsewhere, or asking a common question that has been answered many times before, is not likely to result in a friendly, constructive response.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>When you ask for help troubleshooting problems related to the installation, you may be asked to provide log files generated by the installer. Consult the corresponding documentation to learn how to access a suitable log file.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_join_the_community"><a class="anchor" href="#_join_the_community"></a>Join the community</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Fedora has a vibrant community. The meeting place is the <a href="https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/docs">Fedora Discussion</a> Forum.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Fedora is a huge project. Some of us will remember when we first started getting involved in Fedora. It was not easy to get an overview and to find a way to contribute one’s interests and skills in the best possible way. Fortunately, we now have an initiative to pave the way for new participants and provide some guidance. Have a look at <a href="https://docs.stg.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/join/#_not_sure_where_to_start_come_hang_out_with_us">'Not sure where to start? 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We also preserve older documentation on this site for historical interest and to acknowledge the generous contribution of time and effort by many, many writers and translators.</p> </div> <div class="sect2"> <h3 id="_please_help_us_to_improve_the_documentation"><a class="anchor" href="#_please_help_us_to_improve_the_documentation"></a>Please help us to improve the documentation</h3> <div class="paragraph"> <p>We are always working to update and further improve this documentation. To do this, we rely on feedback. 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