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-========
 Suricata
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 Introduction
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+------------
 
 Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine.
 
 
 Installation
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+------------
 
 https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/Suricata_Installation
 
 User Guide
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 You can follow the [Suricata user guide](http://suricata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to get started.
 
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 Contributing
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 We're happily taking patches and other contributions. Please see https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/Contributing for how to get started.
 
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-Overview of Suricata's QA steps
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+### Overview of Suricata's QA steps
 
 Trusted devs and core team members are able to submit builds to our (semi) public Buildbot instance. It will run a series of build tests and a regression suite to confirm no existing features break.
 
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-FAQ
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+### FAQ
 
 __Q: Will you accept my PR?__