Beginner's Resources

This book tracks the resources from:
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/beginner-resource-collection and
https://github.com/molan-git/awesome-sailfishos/blob/master/README.md

Currently just Markdown dumps which need a bunch of work to make them useful.

Beginner's Resource Collection

Let's use this topic to collect some resources a beginner might find useful.

Keep this user-centric, there's other categories for development and other discussions.

*This is a wiki, so if you, dear reader, have something to add or edit, go ahead (you will need a certain [forum trust level](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/) though)!*

**Official Jolla Resources**
* [Jolla Store](https://shop.jolla.com/) get your SailfishOS licenses here!
* [SailfishOS Blog](https://blog.jolla.com/) for news, announcements and things
* [Jolla Together](http://together.jolla.com/):  legacy discussion and support forum (read-only, may go away)

* [Jolla Service and Support](https://jolla.com/support/) a.k.a. Jolla Care 
* [Jolla@Zendesk](https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/) Jolla customer care, where you can [create a new request](https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) and  [search](https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/search) for others

* [SailfishOS Wiki](https://sailfishos.org/wiki/SailfishOS) (developer-centric, with some user-related things)
* [SailfishOS Cheat Sheet](https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS_Cheat_Sheet) for Power Users, and aren't we all
* [Community News](https://forum.sailfishos.org/tag/community-news) monthly-ish news series on this forum

**Official User Guides**
* [User Guides](https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/200392647-User-guides) the base (see also below links)
* [Jolla User Guide](https://jolla.com/guide/en/index.html) SF1.0 (outdated)
* [Jolla Tablet User Guide](https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206260208-Jolla-Tablet-User-Guide) SF2.0 (outdated)

**Community Resources**
* [The Awesome SailfishOS Collection](https://github.com/molan-git/awesome-sailfishos/blob/master/README.md) a, well, awesome list of resources just like this one, by @molan et. al. 
* [List of Android -> Sailfish OS applications](https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/list-of-android-sailfish-os-applications/6866)
* [Android apps and their Sailfish equivalents](https://github.com/sailfishos-community/equivalentsinsailfish)
* [SailfishOS forum on maemo.org](http://talk.maemo.org/forumdisplay.php?f=52) the mother of all forums
* unofficial app resource: [OpenRepos](http://openrepos.net)
* Telegram Group: [Sailfish OS Fan Club](https://t.me/+KeJKDDA60uU2M2Q0)
  * More discussion channels are linked in [this post](https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-11th-march/5409), including links for different messaging platforms and languages.

**Third Party Resources**
* Sony [Open Devices](https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/)

**Technical Resources/Guides**
* [Guide: Installing Sailfish X on Xperias](https://gitlab.com/Olf0/sailfishX#guide-installing-sailfishx-on-xperias)
especially: 
   * [Increasing the "root" LVM volume size](https://gitlab.com/Olf0/sailfishX#33-increasing-the-root-lvm-volume-size)

* [Guide: Creating partitions on SD-card, optionally encrypted](https://gitlab.com/Olf0/guide-creating-partitions-on-sd-card-optionally-encrypted)
* [Guide: Externalising android_storage and other directories or files to SD-card](https://gitlab.com/Olf0/guide-externalising-android_storage-and-other-directories-files-to-sd-card)
  Note that externalising Android storage does not work for AlienDalivik (AAS) on Xperia XA2, 10, 10 II ans 10 III, yet.
* [Guide: Fix certificate issues on SailfishOS, e.g. DST X3 root certificate on older SailfishOS (e.g. Jolla1 with 3.4)](https://gitlab.com/Olf0/guide-fix-certificate-issues-on-sailfishos)
* [Some export (backup) functionality](https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/how-can-i-issue-system-backup-over-ssh/4112/3)

**App Stores /  Repositories Guides**
(enlisted here or in a separated thread ?)
* [How to install app's thread](https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/how-to-install-apps-in-sailfish-x-guide-for-noobs-like-me/1726)

Awesome Sailfish

A curated list of awesome Sailfish OS resources.

Sailfish OS is a mobile operating system based on open source and developed by the Finnish mobile company Jolla Ltd. and the Sailfish OS community.

Sailfish OS

Jolla

Application Sources / Stores

Useful Communications Apps

Tips and Tricks

Instant Messaging, Social Media and other

In English

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In French

In Spanish

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License

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