I have already mentioned the documentation files, typically installed in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/cdrom. These can be a gold mine
of useful information.
The following Usenet FAQs are posted
periodically to news.answers
and archived at Internet FTP sites such as
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/.
Several other Linux HOWTOs have useful information relevant to CD-ROM:
At least a dozen companies sell Linux distributions on CD-ROM; most of
them are listed in the Distribution HOWTO.
The following Usenet news groups cover CD-ROM related topics:
The
comp.os.linux newsgroups are also good sources of Linux
specific information.
A FAQ document on IDE and ATA devices can be found at
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/pc-hardware-faq/enhanced-IDE/
and at
http://www.seagate.com/techsuppt/faq/faqlist.html.
A web site dedicated to multimedia can be found at http://www.scala.com/multimedia/.
Creative Labs has a web site at
http://www.creaf.com/.
The Linux Software Map (LSM) is an invaluable
reference for locating Linux software. The LSM home page is at
http://www.ExecPC.com/lsm/.
and there is an on-line browsable version at
http://www.boutell.com/lsm/.
Another great site for finding Linux applications is
http://www.freshmeat.net/.
The Linux mailing list has a number of "channels" dedicated
to different topics. To find out how to join, send a mail message with
the word "help" as the message body to
majordomo@vger.kernel.org.
The Linux Documentation Project has produced several books
on Linux, including Linux Installation and Getting
Started. These are freely available by anonymous FTP from major
Linux archive sites or can be purchased in hardcopy format.
Finally, a shameless plug: If you want to learn a lot more about
multimedia under Linux (especially CD-ROM and sound card applications
and programming), check out my book Linux Multimedia Guide,
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Japanese translations are now in print. For details, call 800-998-9938
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