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## External links

## Communities / Forums

- [ArsTechnica OpenForum](https://arstechnica.com/civis/) - IT Forum which is attached to a large news site.
- [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com) - Really, really large bulletin board system.
  - [/r/Linux](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux) - News and information about Linux.
  - [/r/LinuxQuestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions)
  - [/r/SysAdmin](https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/)
- [Spiceworks Community](https://community.spiceworks.com/start) - General enterprise IT news and small articles.
- [StackExchange Network](https://stackexchange.com/sites#technology) - Q&A communities.
  - [Server Fault](https://serverfault.com/) - StackExchange community for system and network administrators.

## Repositories

*Software package repositories.*

- [AlternativeTo](https://alternativeto.net) - Find alternatives to software you know and discover new software.
- [deb.sury.org](https://deb.sury.org/) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
- [ElRepo](https://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php) - Community Repo for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, CentOS, etc).
- [EPEL](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) - Repository for RHEL and compatibles (CentOS, Scientific Linux).
- [IUS](https://ius.io/) - Community project that provides RPM packages for newer versions of select software for Enterprise Linux distributions.
- [Remi](http://rpms.famillecollet.com/) - Repository with LAMP updated packages for RHEL/Centos/Fedora.
- [Software Collections](https://www.softwarecollections.org) - Community Release of [Red Hat Software Collections](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-software-collections/). Provides updated packages of Ruby, Python, etc. for CentOS/Scientific Linux 6.x.

## Websites

- [Cloud Native Software Landscape](https://landscape.cncf.io/card-mode?license=open-source&grouping=category) - Compilation of software and tools for cloud computing.
- [ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/) - Arch Linux Wiki which has really nice written articles valid for other distros.
- [Gentoo Wiki](https://wiki.gentoo.org/) - Gentoo Linux Wiki with a lot in-detail description of Linux components.
- [Awesome SysAdmin @ LibHunt](https://sysadmin.libhunt.com) - Your go-to SysAdmin Toolbox. Based on the list here.
- [Ops School](https://www.opsschool.org) - Comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer.
- [Digital Ocean Tutorials](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials) - 6,000+ tutorials for getting the basics of certain applications/tools/systems administration topics.

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