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Linux audio forums, IRC channels, mailing lists, and wikis

This page could/should be split into multiple pages. In case it stays a single page, it should be renamed to something like 'linux_audio_places'. Also, a podcast page/section should probably be added.

Forums

General Linux audio support forums

English

LinuxMusicians Forum - Also houses the official KXStudio and Laborejo forums.
Ubuntu Multimedia Production forum

Other languages

Dutch (Nederlandstalig) - Linux en muziek productie forum op homerecording.be
French - http://www.linuxmao.org/Accueil

German - http://www.audio4linux.de/forum/index.php
Polish - http://linux-muzyka.ixion.pl/
Italy - http://www.linux-audio.org/ and http://linuxaudio.it/

Distribution-specific support forums

AVLinux forum
Planet Tango (with mailinglist) (← What mailing list?) and Tango Studio forum
64Studio forum (English, Buy Professional Support option)
Ubuntu (Studio) forum and IRC (Forums in practically every language)

Musix support (Spanish - Português - Français - Català - English - Italian - Russian)

IRC channels

When using IRC, please be patient. It might be night in other countries and people from there might not be online, or online and AFK, or simply busy. One usually just writes one's question there, and if someone knows an answer, you will usually recieve it in up to half an hour (usually 5-10 minutes).

On irc.freenode.net

For general Linux audio help

Distro- and program-specific help

#kxstudio
#ubuntustudio
#archaudio

#alsa
#ardour
#ardour-mixbus
#dataflow (for PureData)
#jack
#laborejo
#ladi
#lilypond
#linuxsampler
#lmms
#musescore
#non

General Linux and hardware help

#ubuntu (support channel of what is currently the most popular Linux distribution)
#linux (requires you to register your nick)
##hardware
#nvidia, #nouveau, #radeon, #ati, #intel-gfx, #bumblebee, #poulsbo (graphics card support channels)

Mailing Lists

Mailing lists are a somewhat old method of communication, but quite popular out here - particularly among developers, but is also used by users. You need to register with them to post a message, but you can read the archives (i.e. all messages being posted) without registering.

Linux Audio mailing lists - You can also search it's archives.

Other wikis

German - http://wiki.datentraeger.org/index.php?title=Hauptseite
French - LinuxMAO's wiki - http://www.linuxmao.org/Toute+la+documentation
Finnish - Linuxaudio section of Linux.fi wiki - http://linux.fi/wiki/Musiikinteko_Linuxilla

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