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304 Part III . Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution . Mailing lists (www.debian.org/MailingLists) Ways of accessing (and behaving on) Debian mailing list are described on this page. A complete listing of the more than 200 Debian mailing lists is available from http://lists .debian.org/completeindex.html. . Bug tracking (www.debian.org/Bugs) If you are interested in following the bug tracking system for Debian, links from the support page can take you to the Bug Tracking System site. If you are having problems with any Debian software, you can search that site for bug reports and file a bug report, if your bug was not yet reported. . Help (www.debianhelp.org) This site offers connections to a range of information about Debian. In particular, you can find Debian forums from this site, containing literally thousands of posts. The Debian User Forums site (http://forums.debian.net) is another place you can go to post questions about Debian. If you are interested in becoming a Debian developer, start at the Debian Developers Corner (www.debian.org/devel). That site acts as a guide to ways in which you can enter the Debian development community. There are Debian developers all over the world. The largest concentrations of Debian developers are in Europe and the United States, as you can see from the Debian Developer Location map (www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc). Installing Debian GNU/Linux The Debian CD image included with this book contains the most commonly used packages in the Debian system. Additional packages can be downloaded and installed from the Internet after the base system has been installed and an Internet connection established. For information about how to obtain additional Debian packages on CD or DVD, see www.debian.org/distrib/. Hardware Requirements and Installation Planning To run Debian, you need at least a 386 processor and 32MB of RAM. For a server or a graphical workstation (running the X Window System), you should plan on having at least 128MB of memory and a Pentium-class processor. A minimal set of packages requires 250MB of disk space, and a normal installation of desktop applications can require a few gigabytes. Additional space will be needed to store any data files that you want to keep on the system. Most ISA and PCI network cards are supported under Linux, although ISA models are not usually detected automatically by the installer. Inexpensive cards based on RealTek 8139 chipsets can be found at most PC dealers and will work fine for
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