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March 29, 2001 —
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SourceForge
Themes.org
color="ff6600">ADVOCACY
Linux
International
LI is a nonprofit association of groups, corporations, and others that promotes
and helps direct the growth of the Linux OS and the Linux community.
color="ff6600">DEVELOPMENT
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developerWorks
IBM
-run
developer site's Linux Zone has articles, news, and descriptions/links to
development
tools. The Open Source Zone hosts projects licensed under the IBM Public
License.
SourceForge
A
centralized
location for software developers to control and manage open source software
development. SourceForge hosts over 6,000 projects and has over 42,000
registered
users.
color="ff6600">DOCUMENTATION
Linux
Documentation Project
The
LDP is a collaborative effort to provide Linux documentation, ranging from online
docs to printed manuals, relating to installing, using, and running
Linux.
Linux
man Pages
An
indexed HTML version of the Linux man pages -- niftily compiled
by a Linux wannabe and "DOS dummy who would rather go back to
CP/M."
color="ff6600">EVENTS
LinEvents
Authoritative
listing of all upcoming Linux-related events -- collected, categorized,
summarized,
and presented with an efficient interface.
color="#ff6600">GAMES
Linux
Games
Latest
and greatest news, HOWTOs, hosted game sites, advocacy information, and
links
for games-on-Linux aficionados. Includes a pretty active discussion forum and
an FTP download site.
Linux Game Tome
A
dynamic,
user-maintained database of games for Linux. Started by Tessa Lau in 1995
and
resuscitated and overhauled in 1998 by Bob Zimbinksi.
color="ff6600">GENERAL
LINUX
Tucows
Linux
Linux
Webzine with original reviews, opinion, technical articles at various levels,
software downloads, and an extensive library of HOWTOs.
FirstLinux
Home
of the Linux Guide, a searchable and alphabetically arranged compendium of
Linux
terms, definitions, and documentation. Also includes capsule reviews,
resources
for beginners, and an exhaustive set of Web links.
LinuxPlanet
Mixed bag of features, reviews, opinion, discussion, and tutorials. Best known
for editor Kevin Reichard's reviews and editorials.
Just
Linux
A Linux
portal with some free services too: dynamic DNS, email forwarding, and the
Linux
Registry (a searchable database of Linux professionals, hobbyists, and
jobs/projects).
Linux.com
Linux.com
offers
original features and columns, news, and support resources aimed at users of
all experience levels.
Linux
Gazette
Monthly Web publication with an informal style. Linux Gazette is dedicated both
to making Linux just a little more fun and to sharing ideas and
discoveries.
Linux
Journal
This
companion site to the venerable monthly print magazine has selected material
from the current issue plus a number of online-only feature articles. Other
features include a speakers bureau.
The Linux
Show!!
Weekly Webcast (Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Pacific) with discussion of recent Linux
news and sometimes controversial topics, often including special guests from
the Linux community. Part of the GeekCast Network.
Linux
Online
A nonprofit
operation
that includes contributions from thousands in the Linux community. Aims to
provide
a clearinghouse for information about, and to further the promotion of,
Linux.
32BitsOnline
32BitsOnline
has timely editorials, technical articles, hardware and software reviews, news,
polls, and other features geared toward IT professionals in the Linux and BeOS
worlds.
Linux
Magazine
The
"chronicle
of the revolution" has been going to subscribers and newsstands since the
spring
of 1999. Complete issues go online a few months after they come out in print.
Site also includes some online-only content.
LinuxNews.com
This
news
site, spun off from LinuxMall.com, distinguishes itself by mixing a healthy
dose of original content with links to Linux news from across the
Web.
color="ff6600">HUMOR
Segfault.org
Go here when it
all gets too serious. Where else can you find satire like "NT Outperforms Self
on Same Hardware" and "USA Replaces Constitution with Linux Kernel?"
Humorix
linux/
Fake news that pokes fun at Linux and other tech stuff. "Fake news is to Humorix
as unconfirmed rumors are to Slashdot."
color="ff6600">KERNEL
Linux Kernel
Archives
Official site for the Linux kernel source. A number of sites around the world
have provided mirrors, which you can access from here.
color="ff6600">NEWBIES
Eclectic
Compendium for Linux Newbies
/
A well-organized individual's site, with basic technical information, hints,
tips, examples, and Web links for those getting started with Linux. Includes
an Online Troubleshooting Resources page.
LinuxNewbie
This
site takes people by the hand who are having a hard time learning how to
operate,
install, and get around the OS.
color="ff6600">NEWS
comp.os.linux.announce archive
://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/mjrauhal/linux/cola.archive/cola-last-50.html
c.o.l.a. is a moderated Usenet newsgroup intended as a forum for
announcements
for the Linux community. This page has links to the latest 50 messages, newest
ones first.
Linux Weekly
News
Weekly summary of Linux news
for all interests. Also has editorials, features, an event calendar, and a Linux
stocks page. Includes daily updates page.
Linux
Today
The most
all-encompassing
Linux and open source news site on the Web, updated continuously.
Slashdot.org
This hippest of
geek sites has reader-contributed daily news and reviews for those who
gravitate
toward open source but also have a far-ranging set of other techie
interests.
OPEN
SOURCE
Apache
Software Foundation
The
Apache
Software Foundation supports Apache open source software-development
projects,
including the world-dominant Apache Web server software.
FreeBSD
FreeBSD
is
a robust BSD Unix operating system with advanced networking, performance,
security,
and compatibility features for "PC-compatible" computers. FreeBSD is free and
developed and maintained by a large team of individuals.
OpenBSD
OpenBSD is a free,
volunteer-developed, multiplatform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system
emphasizing
portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security, and integrated
cryptography. Supports binary emulation of Linux.
NetBSD
NetBSD is a
free, highly portable UNIX-like operating system available for many platforms,
from 64-bit AlphaServers to handheld devices.
color="ff6600">GNOME
The
GNOME project,
part of the GNU Project, intends to build an easy-to-use desktop environment
for users and a powerful application framework for software
developers.
The GNU
Project
GNU (GNU's not
Unix)
is the venerable and productive endeavor, founded by Richard Stallman, to
provide
a freely distributable replacement for Unix.
KDE
KDE seeks to fill
the need for easy-to-use desktop for Unix and Linux workstations. The software
created by the KDE project is open source and cost-free.
OpenSource.org
Resource
site for the Open Source Initiative, an organization that advances the cause
of "free software" on the pragmatic grounds of reliability, cost, and strategic
business risk.
color="ff6600">SECURITY
SecurityPortal
pnews.html
Information for corporate security professionals includes tech notes and
opinion
pieces, summaries of breaking security news, feature articles, and links to
security-related resources.
LinuxSecurity
Source of information, insight, and news relating to Linux and open source
security
issues.
color="ff6600">SPECIAL- INTEREST
TECHNICAL LINUX SITES
LinuxPPC
This is
the official home of the Linux/PPC project, the native port of Linux to the
PowerPC processor. It's primarily, but not exclusively,
developer-oriented.
Linux
Telephony
A site that's "bridging the Linux and telephony paths"; offers relevant news
articles, technical discussion, projects, software, reviews, and other
resources.
LinuxDevices.com
News, articles, polls, forum, event and job listings, products, and links --
all exclusively focused on using Linux in embedded applications.
Realtimelinux.org
An impartial, technically oriented, noncommercially aligned community resource
for people interested in Linux as a realtime OS, focusing on the "hard realtime"
Linux kernels and applications.
color="ff6600">SOFTWARE
REPOSITORIES
Freshmeat
Repository
of free applications for almost any Linux purpose. Dozens of new packages are
posted daily from the hundreds contributed. There's also an editorial
section.
IceWalkers
A site
where
Linux software authors can announce their latest releases and make them
available
for download. Includes a system for users to rate applications.
LinuxApps.com
Downloads
of new applications for Linux from contributing developers. Several are posted
each day; all are indexed in a separate frame by date and by
category.
AppWatch.com
A
repository
for free and open source Linux applications only. AppWatch not only announces
new versions, but also maintains a database of changes and up-to-date links
to all releases of each application it lists.
color="ff6600">STANDARDS
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Linux
Standard Base
The
goal
of the Linux Standard Base is to develop and promote a set of standards that
will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software
applications
to run on any compliant Linux system.
X
WINDOW
SYSTEM
Themes.org
A repository, hosted by VA Linux Systems, of graphics, information, themes,
and other resources for the X Window System.
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