If you know what do you want to do, and think is programable, then I thinkyour best bet is google for it, or ask on list.In many ways, one of the many purposes of the lists is to act as a very basic low-level interpreter between a user and the computer. Too much, maybe. I think that list traffic would be reduced somewhat and a user's grasp of what is available to him/her would be increased, if there was one place ( a dictionary?) that folks could go to at least learn the vocabulary of Debian that is available to them BEFORE hitting up the list experts.My question is: "Is there such a web-site?"
No. Even if such a website exists, it will be out of date very soon and requires heavy maintenance. The closest solution to your problem would be the wiki - http://wiki.debian.org/ . If you want to see such a thing, just write it up there and it will pick up if there is sufficient interest.
There's a huge, in the thousands, of comand line programs on any linux installation, and most people dont know how to use them all, if any,Wouldn't it be nice if there was a place where ALL the commands are available to peruse either before a command is needed or when a command is needed?
It would be real nice and I was looking for that one once upon a time. I think there is a book called Debian bible (not sure about the name) - It probably lists most of the commands.
raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Graduate Student, MAE Cornell University http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/