Mailing Lists


Mailing lists are interactive or digest-form electronic discussions about nearly any topic. To use a mailing list, you must generally send an email request to be subscribed to the list, and then verify the subscription with a return message from the master list mailer. After subscribing to an interactive form of list, each message sent to the list appears in your email inbox. However, many lists provide a digest form of subscription in which a single- or half-day's traffic is condensed in a single message. The digest form is generally preferred unless you have set up electronic mail filtering.

The main Fedora Project mailing lists are detailed here, but there are quite a few Linux-related lists. Red Hat's offerings are also provided here. You can search for nearly all online mailing lists by using a typical mailing list search web page, such as the one at http://www.lsoft.com/lists/list_q.html.

Gnome and KDE Mailing Lists

GNOME users and developers should know that more than two dozen mailing lists are available through http://mail.gnome.org/. KDE users can also benefit by perusing the KDE-related mailing lists at http://www.kde.org/mailinglists.html.


Fedora Project Mailing Lists

The Fedora Project is always expanding, with many users finding Fedora for the first time. You can find many other knowledgeable users with answers to your questions by participating in one of Fedora's mailing lists. The lists are focused on using, testing, developing and participating in Fedora's development:

  • fedora-devel-list@redhat.com Developer information exchanges

  • fedora-announce-list@redhat.com Announcements concerning Fedora Core

  • fedora-docs-list@redhat.com Fedora users working on project documentation

  • fedora-list@redhat.com Discussions among users of Fedora Core releases

  • fedora-test-list@redhat.com Queries and reports from testers of Fedora Core test releases

Red Hat Mailing Lists

Red Hat provides a comprehensive archive and mailing list management web page at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/. You can use this page to subscribe to one of more than 40 mailing lists related to Red Hat and Fedora. Some of the more pertinent lists are

  • redhat-devel-list Information for developers using Red Hat Linux

  • redhat-install-list Installation issues about Red Hat Linux

  • redhat-list General Red Hat Linux discussion list

  • redhat-ppp-list Issues regarding PPP and dial-up under Red Hat Linux

  • redhat-secure-server Using Red Hat, Inc.'s secure server

  • redhat-watch-list Announcements of bug fixes and updates for Red Hat Linux

  • rpm-list Using the Red Hat Package Manager



Red Hat Fedora 5 Unleashed
Red Hat Fedora 5 Unleashed
ISBN: 067232847X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 362

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