For many businesses and system administrators, support is essential. It’s one of the main reasons why so many proprietary software titles have continued to remain on desktops and servers everywhere. But there’s absolutely no way businesses (especially at the enterprise level) can avoid open-source software and the Linux operating system.

But just because a piece of software is open-source doesn’t mean there’s no support available. In fact, open-source software has plenty of available support…it’s sometimes just not in the form that you’re accustomed to. And with just a bit of information going into this, you shouldn’t have any problem finding help for what you need.

Where can you turn when you need help with Linux?

This article and checklist from TechRepublic Premium take a look at some of the available options.