Debian Polish

Debian is accessible in Polish language too. Starting from installation of the system, through user interface of the majority of popular programs and the system messages and finishing on documentation. Obviously, there is many things still to be done in this matter, but probably even now you can use Debian without knowing English.

Furthermore, there exists a strong Debian users society in Poland, visible by multiple web sites, mailing lists, and forums. At the moment, there is 13 official Debian developers from Poland registered in the project.

Polish Debian resources

Note that not all Polish documents are up-to-date. There has been many important changes in Debian, since Etch is stable. Some Polish resources may not include all that changes.

Manuals Online
- Debian FAQ [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] — Debian in questions and answers
- Guide for the novice — how to start the adventure with Debian
- Debian Quick Reference [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] — the concise user handbook
- Debian Reference [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] — the most comprehensive user manual
- APT HOWTO [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] — the short handbook about the Debian packages management utility, APT
- Debian New Maintainers' Guide [HTML] [plain text] [PDF] [PS] — how to create packages in the deb format
Books
Wiki
- Polish wiki about Debian — various articles and advices
- Polish pages on the official project Wiki — you can also co-create Debian or read what others have written
Other sites
- Debianusers.pl — many useful articles
- Debian Users Gang — large collection of good articles, FAQ's, links
- Debian Fanatic User — if you don't know yet why to choose just Debian
- Wikipedia — concise encyclopedic information
- jakilinux.org — comparison of different Linux distributions
- linux.pl — Polish Linux site, it describes different distributions

Where to look for help in Polish language

Forums
- Polish Debian Users Forum is at the moment probably the place of greatest activity of Debian users. On the forum there is a lot of advices, documents and discussions about present Debian editions
- Debian Users Gang — also active, forum for more advanced users
News groups
- pl.comp.os.linux.debian
- alt.pl.comp.os.linux.debian — smaller traffic, what can be regarded as advantage or disadvantage.
Debian mailing list for Polish users — you can subscribe or send e-mail on address debian-user-polish@lists.debian.org. (It can be also viewed via gateways mail2news, e.g. news.amu.edu.pl; you can write through such gateway if you subscribed to the list linux-gate@lists.bofh.it)
IRC
- #debian.pl on IRCNet
- #debian.linux.pl on IRCNet
- #error na IRCNet — channel DUG

There are several other Polish sites about Debian, but they weren't updated for some time.

Making Debian Polish

Formerly much of work was put in Polish Documentation of Debian Project (PDDP), but today it seems to be not active.
Information about translated packages and Debian web pages are available on the statistics pages.
If you would like to help in translation (e.g. installation messages, packages descriptions, programs interfaces, WWW pages like this, documentation etc.) or if you have another idea what could be placed on this or other Debian pages, send an e-mail on the debian-l10n-polish@lists.debian.org list.