Linux Links
General
Distributions
Distro Watch
— A Guide to Linux Distributons.
Red Hat — Popular Linux
distribution.
Fedora Linux Home Page —
Get latest distribution here.
Fedora Project —
Unsupported version of Red Hat distribution.
Fedora
Mirrors — The main site is overloaded and often inaccessible. Try one
of these.
CentOS —
Free distro comparable to non-free Red Hat enterprise distro (RHEL).
White Box
Enterprise Linux — Free distro comparable to non-free Red Hat
enterprise distro (RHEL).
Suse — Popular Linux
distribution, recently purchased by Novell.
Ximian — Red carpet
express, recently purchased by Novell
Debian — Popular Linux
distribution.
Mepis — Built on
Debian, KDE. Can boot, run, and install from "live CD".
Ubuntu — Built on
Debian, Gnome. Can boot, run, and install from "live CD".
Knoppix — Built on
Debian. Have KDE and Gnome versions. Can boot and run from "live CD"
which provides good test of hardware.
Mandrake — Popular
Linux distribution.
Slackware Linux Project
— Popular Linux distribution.
Gentoo — Popular Linux
distribution.
Linux Beta — Source for all
kinds of beta releases, for those who like to live on the bleeding edge.
Journals, documentation
Repositories for instllations and upgrades
Administration, modules, upgrade tools
Drivers, devices
Multiple devices
Video, graphics
OpenGL — 3D video
drivers can provide smoothe transitions and game support.
IEEE-1394
NTFS
Scanners
Winmodem, Dial-up
Wireless
CD & DVD
Spam & virus defense
You may want to use a combination of the following:
Fetchmail —
Utility to retrieve email from remote server.
Sendmail — Mail Transport
Agent (MTA) utlity to manage email.
Procmail — Mail processor
for mail servers.
Milter — Mail filter for
mail servers, to exclude spam and viruses.
ClamAV — Antivirus
protection tool.
Spamassassin
— Mail filter for mail servers, to exclude spam.
Applications
Enterprise IT Planet
Linux Products — Linux applications.
Sourceforge — Hosting
site for development projects of all kinds, not just for Linux.
Freshmeat — Linux
applications.
Linux.com — Resource for
enterprise Linux solutions.
Linux Directory —
Everything and Anything for Linux!
Mozilla — Leading suite of
browser, email, web editor, IRC, and related functions.
Open Office — Word
processor, spreadsheet, and other functions.
Xandros — Distribution
that focuses on compatibility with Microsoft Windows.
Wine HQ — Main site for the
Wine emulator, with source.
Crossover Office —
Commercial Wine. Run MS Office and other Windows programs on Linux.
Transgaming —
Commercial Wine. Run Windows games on Linux.
Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (ALSA) Project — Focus on audio and MIDI
functionality.
WordPerfect
Cute — Editor for
programmers, more user-friendly than Emacs.
Nvu — HTML editor derived from
Mozilla composer.
Bluefish — Advanced
web editor for HTML, DHTML, PHP, and other web page development functions.
Quanta — Advanced
web editor.
LyX — GUI for LaTeX, better
than a word processer, especially for technical publishing.
LaTeX2HTML
— Translator from LaTeX to HTML.
Linux Printing —
Focus on printing functionality.
RealPlayer
for Linux — Download binaries for various platforms from here.
LinuxTV — Digital video on
Linux.
Linux and GNU
— GNU Project — Free Software Foundation (FSF).
The Gnome Project — Popular
implementation of X-Windows and a desktop environment.
The K Desktop Environment (KDE)
— Popular implementation of X-Windows and a desktop environment.
GIMP - Gnu Image Manipulation
Program — Aspires to become the Photoshop for Linux. Can launch a
scanner to acquire an image.
Rascal — Scientific
calculator.
Mathematica — Symbolic
mathematics calculation, derivation, and display package.
Nested Interactive Array Language
(Nial) — Implemented as Q'Nial, natural successor to APL, LISP and
Prolog.
Scheme
— MIT implementation of the scheme dialect of the LISP language.
Horde — Multi-user personal
information manager (PIM): Manages email, news, address book, calendar,
meetings, tasks, want list, notes, bank accounts, time tracking & billing,
etc.
Bulk Mailer —
Sends messages to lists of recipients through sendmail. Open source.
Limez — High performance
mailing list manager that can broadcast messages to large numbers of recipients
from files or databases.
CRM-ctt — Customer
Relationship Managment - customer tracking system.
eGroupware —
Collaboration utiity. Need meeting management functions, such as conference
edit and parliamentary procedure.
IntraSmart —
Proprietary groupware product, many useful features.
Asterisk — Utility to turn
your computer into a telephone PBX, and support voice-over-IP (VOIP).
Gnophone — VOIP
utility.
GnuCash — Competition for
Microsoft Money and similar products.
Scribus —
Desktop publishing package.
Blender —
Graphics 3D modelling and rendering package.
Ardour — Tool for
musicians.
Rosegarden4 — MIDI
sequencer, competition for Cubase.
Gaim — Instant
messaging client, supports multiple protocols.
Mplayer — Competition
for Windows Media Player.
Xine — Competition for Windows
Media Player.
CVS — Version
control and configuration management tools.
Vexira
MailArmor — Virus protection product, proprietary.
Chandler — Calendaring, event, agenda management.
Various Site Utilities — Many tools for webmasters.
Simulation Tools for Linux Systems — Includes some for web
sites.
Development projects
HAL — Hardware
Abstraction Layer, intends to make Linux "plug-and-play".
D-BUS —
Intends to create a messaging system so that, for example, firewire devices can
be detected and mounted for read-write access when physically connected, and
umounted when disconnected.
Linux-NTFS
Project — Support for accessing NTFS filesystems on a Linux
machine.
LUFS (Linux Userland
File System) — Enables one to mount a non-Linux partition, attached
device, or remote computer's file system, which is accessible by various means
(ftp, ssh, etc.).
Despam — Spam filtering
tool.
Subsites
Knowledgebase, Site Indexing, and Document Management Products
Installation Notes
Systems
Xeta is a Fujitsu C2210 laptop with P4, 2 GHz, 512MB RAM, 60GB HD, Firewire, integrated 802.11b wireless, SD memory stick, and DVD-RW drive.
Vana is a Sony VAIO PCG-XG9 laptop with P3, 500MHz, 128MB RAM, 20GB HD, Firewire, and DVD-R drive.
Yara is a custom desktop with AMD-64 3400+ socket 754, DFI nF3250Gb MB, 2.4 GHz, 3Gb RAM, ATI All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro graphics card, 300Gb HD, Dual-layer DVD+-RW drive.
Various Resources
Linux groups, sponsors
Wireless & Internet in general