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| Linux
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| General and Documentation. | |
| LDP | Linux Documentation Project Wokingham, my nearest site. |
| HOWTOs | Linux HOWTOs direct -- and at Wokingham |
| Linux Resources | |
| www.lugs.org.uk | UK Linux User Groups |
| linux.tucows.com | Linux Applications finder |
| Ibiblio | Linux resources. |
| www.sourceforge.net | Linux Applications finder |
| freshmeat.net | Linux Applications finder |
| And for the veggies amongst us, fresh fruit and veg | Sadly just the same site. Ho Hum. :-(
It's bizare how just the name puts me off. |
| www.slashdot.org | Linux news |
| www.linux.org | Linux info site |
| www.linux.org.uk | Linux info site |
| Everything Linux | Linux Tools and links |
| Control-Escape | Beginners and info |
| Linuxlinks | |
| Linux Resource Exchange. | |
| Linux Emporium | Shopping for Linux CDs? Also related stuff .. freeBSD etc., programming, books, toys and widgets. |
| Linuxbox | Free web hosting for Linux projects |
| Linux Distributions/Distributors | |
| Unifix Linux | Still my favourite distribution, though unconventional. |
| Red Hat Linux | Most people's current favourite distribution. |
| S.u.S.E. Linux | Possibly Europe's favourite distribution. |
| Debian Linux | Maybe NASA's favourite ;-) |
| Ubuntu Linux | I guess this should be Africa's favourite ;-) |
| Gentoo Linux | A Linux named after Gentoo penguins. |
| Fedora Linux | Derived from Red Hat, I guess. |
| Mandrive Linux | Popular, but I've not tried it. |
| Slackware Linux | Slackware, traditional favourite ;-) |
| NetBSD | Prefer BSD to Linux? Try this. If you've heard of Linux, but not BSD, don't let the unfamiliarity put you off. The BSDs are good. |
| FreeBSD | Prefer BSD to Linux? Or this. |
| Sunsite | ftp repository |
| TSX-11 | ftp repository |
| ftp.kernel.org | ftp repository |
| One-floppy Linux. | A complete (small) linux systems on a single floppy disc, with links to many other small Linux versions. |
| Superant | Mini embeddable Linux |
| Magazines and E-zines (A vile phrase... E-zine is a vile phrase -- Polonius.) | |
| Linux Journal | The Premier Linux Magazine. |
| Linux Today | -- aims to provide a one-stop source for all the latest Linux news. |
| Applications I personally find interesting or usefull. | |
| SoundApps | Linux Linux Soundapps page excellent listing for Linux audio and MIDI software -- appears defunct :-( |
| Linux Sound | Another page for Linux sound and MIDI software. |
| HylaFAX | The Fax server system for Unix. (Big! If you just want FAX on your desktop, this isn't the one) |
| The GIMP | GNU Image Manipulation Program. |
| SANE | Scanner software. |
| Graphics Muse | Graphics Homesite |
| KDE | The Gnome Desktop Environment |
| KDE | The K Desktop Environment |
| FVWM-Crystal | The FVWM-Crystal Desktop Environment. I really like this, but not too many people seem to use it. Shame! |
| OpenOffice | The Open Office software suite. Has much that MS Office offers, but free or for a donation and in many respects works better (IMHO) |
| Axcene Office Suite . | Incuding the Xclamation Destop Publisher |
| Freetype. | Free TrueType tools |
| XFree86 | home page of a free X-Windowing system. |
| X Org | home page of a free X-Windowing system. |
| fwtk | fwtk Firewall Toolkit from Trusted Information Systems |
| Juniper | Juniper Firewall Toolkit from Obtuse Systems |
| Squid | Web Proxy/Cache |
| Mayko Map | X-Window System based Maps. |
| X-Tide | X-Window System based Tide calculator. Sadly the UK Hydrographer's Office have declined use of UK prediction conatants, rather crippling this for us. The POL data is fine, but has much pooer coverage. |
| Programming and Programming Languages | |
| OpenSource | The Open-Source Initiative. |
| Cygwin | Unix on Windows (well, it's better tha nothing). |
| MinGW | Unix on Windows .. nicer than cygwin, but not yet so rich, I think. |
| www.perl.com | The PERL website and CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) |
| perl.oreilly.com | The O'Reilly PERL website |
| Python | The Python website |
| Java | Sun's Java website |
| Tcl/tk | Tcl/tk website |
| Ruby | Object-Oriented scripting language website |
| Trumphurst | Java and C++ libraries. |
| Planet Source Code | Assorted source-code snippets. |
| FLTK graphics library | Slimline C++ graphics library. |
| GTK | The Gimp ToolKit (graphics) |
| Qt | Graphics Library |
| wxWidgets | Graphics Library |
| Cross-Assemblers | Various cross-assemblers for Linux. |
| SGML etc. Markup Language Links | |
| SGML/XML | The SGML website |
| DocBook | The Davenport DocBook standard. |
| SP & Jade | SGML parser and DSSSL engine |
| Norman Walsh | Pages on SGML matters |
| TeX | CTAN -- The TeX typesetting language Comprehensive TeX Archive Network |
| WWW Consortium | The reference site for HTML, XHTML, CSS and more |
| www.AnyBrowser.org | The Any-Browser campaign |
| Misc/unclassified | |