CoMedia Programming Resources: GNU/Linux

GNU/Linux News & Propaganda

BeOpen

GNULinux.com

LinuxDev.net

Pythonlabs.com

DebianPlanet

"Serving FREE beer to the users of the FREE Linux of a FREE Planet"

Freshmeat.net

The place to look for Open Source GNU/Linux software

GNU.org and FSF.org

Where it all started... The tools that make free Linux/BSD systems useful.

Thank you, RMS!

kernel.org - The Linux Kernel Archives

Why We Should All Test the New Linux Kernel

Using Test Suites to Validate the Linux Kernel

www.kerneli.org - The International Kernel Patch

Linux.com

News and commentary on the GNU/Linux world

Linux.org

Useful especially for newbies

LinuxPlanet

LinuxToday

both from Internet.com

LinuxWorld

from IDG's IT World

Metalab Linux archive

Everything you might want (or see SourceForge)

Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter

Vote for (or against) your favorite Operating Systems

Slashdot

The only rag I read daily

SourceForge

Up-to-date news and project tracking from VA Linux

SourceForge Software Repository Map

The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond

Now an O'Reilly book

GNU/Linux Distributions

Caldera OpenLinux

Includes the K desktop environment and an Office Suite.

Corel Linux

makers of the WordPerfect office suite

Debian GNU/Linux

The UNIX for hackers

This server runs Debian Woody (testing) with Kernel 2.4.4

The Linux Cookbook

Mandrake

"a friendly Linux Operating System"

MkLinux

For Power macintosh machines

Redhat

Redhat Distribution Links

Red Hat Advanced Development Labs

Redhat Package Management (RPM) See also Rpmfind

Slackware

by Patrick Volkerding

S.u.S.E.

"Easiest Install on the Market due to Extensive Hardware Detection & Configuration"

TurboLinux

"Integrating Linux into the Enterprise"

Yggdrasil

"Plug and play Linux"

A few GNU/BSD flavors (for reference)

BSDi

A commercial BSD system that provides support

Mac OS X

Also known as "Darwin", based on Mach 3.0 and FreeBSD 3.2

FreeBSD

The UNIX Hotmail and Yahoo! use

OpenBSD

a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system

NetBSD

Highly portable and clean, this is what CoMedia ran from 1993 to 1997

Some Select Applications

BRU 2000 Backup Software Home Page

Concurrent Versions System (CVS)

See my CVS FAQ

CygWin32 - GNU UNIX shell for Win-32 systems

(see my NT Tools page for Emacs, Vi, and more)

Digital Audio by 4Front Technologies

FramerD

a portable distributed object-oriented database suitable for semantic networks, frame systems, and many intelligent agent systems

GNOME Project

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)

The GIMP Toolkit (GTK)

gPhoto - digital camera software

GNU Cash

Don't delete your Quicken yet, but it's getting close!

GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension (Guile)

ht://Dig - web indexing and searching engine (GPL)

Hypermail - an email to HTML converter

Java-Linux

JitterBug - Web-based bug tracking

KDE

Local KDE docs

KOffice

Log analysis tools

Majordomo 2

Majordomo 1

MHonArc - an Email to HTML converter

Mozilla

Bugzilla

Palm

Gnome-Pilot

JPilot

KPilot

MalSync

PilotManager

SyncBBDB

Sync XML Conduits

ReadThis! encoder/decoder applet

qmail

by Dan Bernstein

StarOffice suite

To be GPL'd Oct. 2000 - see openoffice.org

VNC - Virtual Network Computing from ORL

WordPerfect for GNU/Linux

by Corel

WU-FTPD - Developers Corner

ht://Dig search of WU-FTPD archives

GNU/Linux Related Security (See also Security and Crypto Resources)

Bastille Linux

The Bastille Hardening System attempts to "harden" or "tighten" the Linux operating system

Books and Documentation

Securing & Optimizing GNU/Linux: Red Hat Edition

how to install a Red Hat GNU/Linux Server with all the necessary security and optimization for a high performance GNU/Linux specific machine

Coyote Linux

A single floppy firewalling gateway router

Firewalling and Proxy Server HOWTO

Fling

a new suite of internet protocols that perform the function of DNS, TCP, and UDP in a manner that's both untraceable and untappable. Fling protects clients from servers, servers from clients, and both from an eavesdropper in-between. The result is that anyone can serve or retrieve any data, without fear of censure.

FreeS/WAN

Services to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks

Linux Administrator's Security Guide (LASG)

Linux IP Masquerade Resource

linux-security.org

Lunix Firewall and Security Site

Openwall Project

including Owl, a security-enhanced GNU/*/Linux-based server platform

Packet sniffers / Protocol analyzers

Ethereal - a network protocol analyzer

IPTraf - a statistics utility for monitoring IP networks

MRTG-2.5: The Multi Router Traffic Grapher

Sniffit

PoPToP - Linux PPTP server

Linux PPTP client

Security Enhanced Linux

from our friends at the NSA

SecurityFocus.com on Linux

SSH

OpenSSH

OpenSSL

Trinity Firewall Tips

Trinux

Trinux is a portable Linux distribution that boots from a single floppy disk, loads it packages from a FAT/Ext2 partition, floppy disks, or HTTP/FTP servers, and runs entirely in RAM.

Tripwire

quickly identify changes occurring in a file system (e.g., those caused by unwelcome visitors).

See also the Open Source Tripwire project

Hardware (See also: General Hardware)

Hardware Compatibility Lists

Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO

Linux Hardware Database

RedHat Hardware Compatibility Lists

Linux USB Project

Penguin Computing

Telenet Systems Solutions

VA Linux

Industrial strength pre-configured GNU/Linux boxes

Hosts Linux.com

Documentation

Linux Documentation Project

Linux HOWTOs

LINUX Links

LINUX Man Pages

Linux Resources (Linux Journal)

Where to get GNU/Linux

lsl - linux systems labs

Good prices for most distributions