Please use your favorite search engine to find the most suitable list for your purpose.Ī lot of our mailing lists can be browsed as newsgroups, in the bian.* hierarchy.

Of course, there are plenty of other mailing lists, dedicated to some aspect of the Linux ecosystem and not Debian-specific. You can browse our mailing list archive or search the archives without the need to be subscribed.

For user support in other languages, please check the index of other user mailing lists.

For user support in English, please contact the debian-user mailing list.

Similarly, most of the conversation between Debian developers and users happens on different mailing lists: Therefore we communicate primarily through e-mail. More than thousand active developers spread around the world work on Debian in their spare time-and in their own timezones. Or a menu entry for connecting to servers and joining channels. Note: graphical clients like HexChat or Konversation often have a button Once you are connected, join channel #debian by typing this command: In some clients (such as irssi) you will need to type this instead: In most clients, you can do that by typing: Once you have the client installed, you need to tell it to connect The Debian Wiki offers a more comprehensive list of IRC clients which are available as Debian packages. Some popular IRC clients have been packaged for Debian, for example: There are lots of different clients out there, some with a graphical interface, some for the console. To connect to the IRC network, you can either use OFTC's WebChat in your preferred web browser or install a client on your computer.

You can also use a search engine to check for Debian-related channels.

For a full list of Debian channels, please refer to our Wiki. IRC channels dedicated to Debian can be found on OFTC. On IRC you can enter chat rooms (so-called channels) or you can directly chat with individual persons via private messages. It's a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a great way to chat with people from all over the world in real time. If this community-driven support doesn't fulfil your needs and you can't find the answer in our documentation, you may hire a consultant to answer your questions or to maintain or add additional functionality to your Debian system. Debian support is offered by a group of volunteers.

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