UNIX Information Resources on the Net

General information repositories

UNIX programming

FTP sites full of UNIX stuff

FTP search engines

W3 search engines

UNIX on the UseNet (NetNews)

The general hierarchy for UNIX newsgroups is comp.unix.*. The three generally most important probably are: There are a lot of other UNIX newsgroups, like vendor specific ones (e.g. comp.unix.sco.announce, comp.unix.aix), for particular architectures (comp.unix.amiga, comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit etc.) and of specific flavours (comp.unix.bsd.*, comp.unix.sys5.*). Some newsgroups are not for the uninitiated (like comp.unix.internals, or comp.unix.wizards, which is moderated anyway). comp.unix.questions is a good start.
Please note that each of the larger UNIX newsgroups maintains a FAQ (list of frequently asked questions) which provide extremely valuable material in a compact form (sometimes better than any book). Even the gurus read FAQs and so should you. It is generally considered very impolite and stupid to ask questions in a newsgroup that are covered by the FAQ. FAQs are posted regularly and can be obtained from archives.

UNIX distributors

Unix is a heterogenous family of operating systems. Unix comes as commercial operating systems, usually for high-end workstations and servers, or as freely distributable systems, usually with full source code, where the original (hacker-like) spirit of UNIX is somewhat preserved (but which are often a match for their commercial counterparts).

Organizations

UNIX fun

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