Everything you ever wanted to know about Linux, and were perfectly willing to ask...
This is the first update I've made to these pages in several months. Sorry about the long time between updates, and all the broken links that were here; I did other things with my copious spare time. I've gone through and tested every link to make sure it works, and hopefully I'll be able to update these pages much more often too. Now on with the info!
New Users! |
If you're a new user, and you're looking for information on what to do and where to get Linux stuff, read the Info-Sheet and the Meta-FAQ. SMP users, check out the Linux SMP page, and find out which motherboards and what other hardware is known to be SMP-compatible. |
The kernel... |
Kernel Traffic does an excellent job of keeping up to date with the kernel. |
General Linux sites |
Linux International, a non-profit organization created to promote and develop Linux and the Linux user community all over the world. The Linux Documentation Project - all the manpages and HOWTOs and whatnot. In a related note, here is the list of Linux mailing lists. Linux Software Map, and the brand new Linux Software Database. The Free Software Foundation's GNU project, a mainstay of Linux /usr trees everywhere. The Linux Counter project.
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Distributions |
Slackware - Slackware - Slackware - 3 times as good as any other distribution!
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Some commercial info |
The Linux Mall. VA Research Linux systems. Preconfigured Linux x86 systems; they've got everything from PII 300's to Quad Xeon 450's. They also have preconfigured notebooks. Specialized Systems Consultants, publishers of Linux Journal. XI Graphics (formerly X Inside) also produces X servers for Linux. About any option you can imagine is available. I've been running a dual-head from these folks for a couple of years now, and it's great. Metrolink produces X servers, Motif toolkits, and whole bunches of other X stuff for Linux (among others) Stronghold, an apache-based secure web server, is available for Linux. Troll Tech, producers of the Qt X11 toolkit, used in the KDE desktop.
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Some not quite commercial info |
4Front Technologies' Open Sound System (OSS) page. OSS is the new name of the sound driver for Linux, among other systems (formerly VoxWare, TASD, and USS). A pile of sound software for Linux can be found here. There's also a signal-analysis package I've found called Dataplore (formerly known as SANTIS) which seems worth checking out. Scyld Computing - network driver development. All hail the mighty Donald Becker! There's a pretty good compression library out there called LZO. The Linux Security home page. The home site of ISC BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon. The home site of sendmail the god of all mail programs. The SATAN network security analyzation suite. Now if they'd only quit using that RED color. It's burning my retinas!
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Stuff for the X Window System (X11) |
We couldn't have X without the X Consortium. X11R6.4 is the latest release. Also check out The Open Group, current holder of the X copyright. The standard Linux X vendor is XFree86, which is in version 3.3.3.1. Have you ever wanted to know anything about the X Window System? X. End Of Story. Seeing as I'm a Motif programmer, here's a good Motif link: The Motif Zone Some Window Managers
For some other 3D stuff, the freeware implementation of OpenGL is the Mesa 3D Library. Some pages with backgrounds and icons for X. Also of interest is the Avernus page, though it is pretty Mac-centric, so the stuff there is probably useless to the average X user. They have some links to other background creators. Here are some X11 graphics utilities:
X11 on Usenet:
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Linux on USENET |
The comp.os.linux hierarchy: Some other groups that might be helpful as well, in alphabetical order:
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Linux Development Stuff |
The Linux Source Navigator, a cool source code highlighter of the Linux source tree. I found a whole bunch of stuff on threads: a tutorial from umass, and the LinuxThreads package by Xavier Leroy. This package is included with glibc2/libc6, but I can't cause glibc2 to build properly. Speaking of languages, I recently found the Language List, a list of every computer language known to man. I also saw the Retrocomputing Museum which has compilers for a bunch of strange languages. I found several links relating to CORBA, including several ORBs: Flick by The University of Utah, ILU by Xerox-PARC, OmniBroker by OOC, omniORB2 by ORL. Also related is the SHORE project, a persistent object storage system and the Texas persistent store object storage system. The JavaSoft home page. Also check out the Java for Linux page. After a couple days of searching, I finally found some useful information on imake. Turns out that it's included with the standard X distribution, too. GCC is the standard Linux compiler. Fetch it now! Also of interest is the development tree of the GCC project, called EGCS. Also check out the newest offering from the Pentium Compiler Group. In a related note, have a look at the Data Display Debugger, a marvelous front-end to gdb (requires Motif or LessTif). Some random stuff:
I don't know if this really belongs in a development section, but I found the official Perl home page and the Perl institute.
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Linux FTPs |
ftp.kernel.org, Linus's kernel source and patch archive. You'll find it here first. There are also mirrors of this site corresponding to most commonly used two-letter country codes, such as ftp.us.kernel.org. ftp.slackware.com, home of the Slackware distribution. Also check out www.slackware.com ftp.redhat.com, home of the Redhat distribution ftp.debian.org, home of the Debian distribution tsx-11.mit.edu, many development versions of various programs are available here. |
