CNET Help.com a good starting point for answers to questions about Linux
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FirstLinux A Linux meta site which is the ideal starting point for a beginner. It features the Linux Guide and the Linux Product Guide
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I've installed Linux: What Next ? a collection of articles giving suggestions and ideas for exploiting your newly installed Linux system
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Linux Package Guide contains information
on the core packages of the RedHat, Suse, Caldera and Debian distributions
for the Intel platform. The database is fully searchable allowing you to
find out whether a particular distribution supports your favorite application,
and moreover, in which package that application is stored
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Hacking Linux Exposed by Brian Hatch,
James B. Lee, George Kurtz: a must-have security handbook for anyone running
Linux. This cutting-edge volume shows you how to think like a Linux hacker
in order to beat the Linux hacker. You'll get detailed information on Linux-specific
hacks, both internal and external, and how to stop them
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Running Linux by Matt Welsh,
Lar Kaufman: covers everything you need to understand, install, and start
using the Linux operating system. It includes a comprehensive installation
tutorial, complete information on system maintenance, tools for document
development and programming (3rd edition)
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary: by Eric S. Raymond
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The Best of Linux Distributions based on Matt Welsh's
cult classic Linux Installation & Getting Started. Revised, expanded,
and updated, The Best of Linux Distributions includes a general introduction
to Linux; detailed explanations of drive partitioning, filesystems, and software
package installation; distribution-specific instructions
for installing Debian GNU/Linux, Slackware, Caldera OpenLinux, and Red Hat
Linux; a complete, low-stress Linux tutorial; system administration under
Linux; X Window; and Networking. Also included are 4 CD-ROMs containing the
latest Linux operating system for Red Hat Linux, Caldera OpenLinux, Debian
GNU/Linux, and Slackware
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Linux Complete : Command Reference in 1,500 pages
of tiny print, this heavy-duty tome documents every command, utility, file
system, library function, and administration tool in the operating system.
Linux also features a detailed kernel reference guide and a good index.
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Programming With Gnu Software (Nutshell Handbook) by Michael Kosta
Loukides, Andy Oram, Mike Loukides, Andrew Oram: this book and CD combination
is a complete package for programmers who are new to UNIX or who would like
to make better use of the system. tents include GNU Emacs, gcc, C and C++
libraries, gdb, RCS, and make
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Linux Application Development by Michael K. Johnson,
Erik W. Troan: practical reference guides programmers developing Linux applications
or porting applications from other platforms.
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The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan,
Dennis M. Ritchie: presents a complete guide to ANSI standard C language
programming. Written by the developers of C, this new version helps readers
keep up with the finalized ANSI standard for C while showing how to take
advantage of C's rich set of operators, economy of expression, improved control
flow, and data structures
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The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup:
in this brand-new third edition of The C++ Programming Language, author Bjarne
Stroustrup, the creator of C++, presents the full specification for the C++
language and standard library
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Advanced Perl Programming (Nutshell Handbook) by Sriram Srinivasan:
covers complex techniques for managing production-ready Perl programs and
explains methods for manipulating data and objects that may have looked like
magic before. It gives you necessary background for dealing with networks,
databases, and GUIs, and includes a discussion of internals to help you program
more efficiently, and imbed Perl within C when necessary
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Programming Perl (Nutshell Handbook) by Larry Wall (Editor),
Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Christiansen, Stephen Potter: the book covers everything
from basic control statements to regular expressions to using objects and
interfacing with other languages (2nd edition)
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Learning Red Hat Linux by Bill McCarty:
walks the reader through the process of installing, configuring, and using
Red Hat Linux 6 and some of its most popular applications. Networking coverage
includes essential local area network configuration, plus excellent coverage
of Samba setup and the process of establishing a Point-to-Point Protocol
(PPP) connection to the Internet
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Linux in a Nutshell 2nd edition by Ellen Siever,
O'Reilly Staff: This complete reference covers the core commands available
on common Linux distributions. It contains all user, programming,administration,
and networking commands with options, and also documents a wide range of
GNU tools
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Maximum Rpm by Ed Bailey: The
complete reference for the RPM software package that is the heart of the
Red Hat Linux distribution. Designed for both the novice and advanced users,
Maximum RPM enables anyone to take full advantage of the benefits of building
software packages with the Red Hat Packagemanagement tools to ensure that
they install simply and accurately each and every time
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Debian GNU/Linux a free operating
system that provides almost 4000 software packages for six architectures
(Intel, Motorola, Alpha, SPARC, PowerPC, ARM) and is developed entirely by
volunteers over the Internet
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Mandrake Linux a distribution
famous for its ease of use, great installer, highly automatised configuration
tools, superb hardware compatibility, and great community of users
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OpenLinux eDesktop intended for desktop users, eDesktop comes with some useful commercial software
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RedHat an outstanding Linux distribution with its excellent rpm (package manager)
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SuSE Linux an extremely popular distro that features excellent documentation, thousands of applications on a DVD/CD-ROM set
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Linux Router Project a networking centric mini-distribution of Linux. LRP is small enough to fit on a single 1.44MB floppy disk, and
makes building and maintaining routers, terminal servers, and typically embedded networking systems next to trivial
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muLinux a tiny implementation
of Linux, which is able to occupy only a single floopy. Its aim is to demonstrate
the power and scalability of this operating system. The kernel is a 2.0.30
compiledfor a 386 and as much modularized as possible
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tomsrtbt "The most Linux on one floppy disk."
rescue/panic/emergency diskette,
or shirt-pocket Linux toolkit.
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developerWorks a free on-line
resource for tools, code, tips, education, on-line tutorials and more. The
site is for developers with focus on world-wide open standards and cross-platform
technologies such as Java, XML, Linux, Security, Web, Unicode and Open-Source.
Get relevant information from both industry-leading sources as well as tapping
in to the knowledge of the IBM technical community
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iMac Linux information and resources for the Linux port to the iMac
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RedHat package manager aims to bring you
the latest and most up to date information on the RPM software packaging
tool which is taking the world by storm
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UNIX Tutorial comprises fourteen
sections, each of which addresses a fundamental aspect of UNIX computing.
It concentrates on illustrating the central concepts by providing short explanations,
along with examples, and exercises
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GNU Hurd the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel
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Kernel Archives the primary site for the Linux kernel source, but it has
much more than just kernels - we have 20 GB of disk space set aside for mirroring the largest
Linux-related software archives
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Analysis of the Ext2fs structure an analysis of the structure of the Second Extended File System and is based
on a study of the Linux kernel source files
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Linux FAT32 Support FAT32 is an extension
to the FAT (File Allocation Table) that allows larger partitions than FAT16
while having a normal cluster size of 4096 bytes
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LinEvents exists to make information pertaining to upcoming events that are related to Linux and Free Software/Open Source accessible
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LinTraining exists to make information pertaining to Linux training and certification accessible
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Linux Filewatcher FileWatcher.org
is a searchable, daily updated directory of Linux/Unix/Internet related file
archives and programs grouped by topic. It features latest updates and file
descriptions and has also powerful search engines.
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Linuxberg The coolest place for Linux software. Brought to you by the TUCOWS people!
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SGI/Linux the port of Linux
to Silicon Graphics hardware. It currently supports all Indy models (R4400,
R4600, or R5000 MIPS® CPUs). In the long term, we would like to see more
extensive SGI platform support. Ports to newer hardware like O2(TM), OCTANE(TM),
and Origin(TM), and even to old hardware like R3000 Indigo(TM)
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Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Primary goals are:
Create fully modularized sound driver which will support kerneld/kmod, Create
new ALSA Kernel API which breaks most of limitations of current OSS API,
Ensure compatibility with most binary OSS/Lite applications, Create ALSA
Library (C,C++) and ALSA Manager
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Beowulf Project Beowulf is a project
to produce the software for off-the-shelf clustered workstations based on
commodity PC-classhardware, a high-bandwidth internal network, and the Linux
operating system.
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freshmeat an excellent resource for all the latest Linux software
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Linux Today a resource for
business professionals interested in maintaining a high level of awareness
of the news pertaining to Linux and the Open Source (tm) communities
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LinuxFocus an online magazine devoted to supplying the emerging young and active Linux community with tips, information and recent news.
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LinuxWorld a Web-only magazine that provides news and technical information about Linux and open source software
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Slashdot.org on-line publication with the latest Linux news
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The Linux Weekly News Dedicated to keeping Linux users up-to-date,
with concise news for all interests
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Linux Format covers Linux for
desktop user, developers and professionals. Each issue comes full of reviews,
features and tutorials on diverse topics. Our Hot Picks section highlight's
the best new open source software every month, all of which is available
on the covermounted CD ROM. DVD edition available. Worldwide subscriptions
available
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Crypto-Gram a free monthly
e-mail newsletter on computer security and cryptography from Bruce Schneier
(author of Applied Cryptography, inventor of Blowfish and Twofish, CTO and
founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., general crypto pundit and
occasional crypto curmudgeon)
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X-CD-Roast a program-package
dedicated to easy CD creation under Linux. It combines command line tools
like "cdrecord" and "mkisofs" into a nice graphical user interface
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GEAR Pro for Linux (commercial) supports
both a GUI and CLI interface. GEAR PRO for Linux offers full CD-R, CD-RW
,DVD-R and DVD-RAM recording and pre-mastering. GEAR supports most drives
on the market
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Domino (commercial) developed
by Lotus, Domino is a combines integrated collaborative functionality with
Linux' low cost-of-deployment and high reliability benefits to enable organizations
worldwide to gain access to powerful messaging, knowledge management and
Web application development capabilities
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ADABAS D high-performance relational database management system
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Beagle SQL a free object relational database engine
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DB2 for Linux the world most trusted relational database for applications ranging from
business intelligence to e-business. The availability of DB2 Universal Database on Linux enables
developers to combine the power of Linux with the performance and robustness of DB2
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GNU Sql Server a free portable
multiuser relatational database management system. It supports the full SQL89
dialect and has some extensions from SQL92
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INFORMIX-SE a commercial database
which provides Linux developers with the full power of an SQL-based database
engine, combined with the quality, configurability, and interoperability
of the Linux operating system
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Cooledit a full featured
multiple window text editor with interactive graphical debugger, anti-aliased
fonts, compiler interface, syntax highlighting for a wide variety of programming
languages, UTF-8/UCS/Unicode support, Python extensibility, and many more
features
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NEdit a text editor for
X-Windows based systems featuring a high quality graphical user interface,
state-of-the-art syntax highlighting and rectangular selection
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Bochs a commercial portable
x86 PC emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU, related
AT hardware, and BIOS to run DOS, Windows '95, Minix 2.0, and other OS's,
all on your workstation
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DOSEMU stands for DOS
Emulation, and is a linux application that enables the Linux OS to run many
DOS programs - including some DPMI apps
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WINE an emulator that
allows MS Windows applications to run on ix86 Unix systems (currently NetBSD,FreeBSD,
SCO OpenServer, Unixware, and Linux) running X11. As a library it will allow
the use of theWindows API for Unix/X11. The license is BSD-like
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Snes9x a portable, freeware
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator. It basically allows
you to play most games designed for the SNES and Super Famicom Nintendo game
systems on your PC or Workstation
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Check Book Balancer (CBB) a personal financial management application written in Tcl/Tk and Perl
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GnuCash a program to keep
track of your finances. It is similar in concept to Quicken(TM). Although
GnuCash still lacks the advanced features of Quicken, it does have the basic
functionality
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X-Accountant a program to keep track of your finances
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Corel Draw for Linux a commercial powerful,
easy-to-use graphics program featuring superb type control, incredible drawing
power and stunning special effects
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GIMP suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring
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GYVE a vector-based drawing program in the spirit of Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw
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xfig a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively in an X window.
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AC3D a popular shareware 3D object/scene modeller available for Linux, Windows 95/NT, and
SGI
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Blender a 3D renderer package
for use in making TV commercials, to make technical visualizations, business
graphics, to do some morphing, or design user interfaces
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BMRT Rendering Tools a collection of rendering programs which adhere to the RenderMan(R) interface standard
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GIG3DGO 3D modeling, animation and rendering functionality
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MindsEye a free complete modeling/animation package
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Pixcon & Anitroll a 3D animation and rendering package available for FREE
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CompuPic an interactive
multimedia file manager and manipulation program. CompuPic allows you to
efficiently view, manage, catalog, and convert over 30 graphics formats
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GQview an image browser that features single click access to view images and move around the directory tree
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ImageMagick package for display and interactive manipulation of images
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XV an interactive
image manipulation program for X Windows that converts image files to and
from GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, PPM, X11, bitmap, Sun rasterfile, RLE, RGB, BMP,
PCX, and PM formats
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OpenMail (commercial) HP's
strategic Linux and UNIX system business-messaging and collaboration solution,
based on Internet standards. It is a proven, robust technology for building
e-services solutions, running on HP-UX(2), Linux, AIX and Solaris
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Procmail a powerful and
robust set of tools that enable you to automatically process mail as you
receive it or after it is already in a message folder
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Balsa a GNOME email client
that supports mbox, maildir, and mh local mailboxes, and IMAP4 and POP3 remote
mailboxes. You can send mail via sendmail or SMTP. Optional multithreading
support allows for non-instrusive retrieval and sending of mail
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Mahogany an OpenSource(TM)
cross-platform mail and news client. It is available for X11/Unix and MS
Windows platforms, supporting a wide range of protocols and standards, including
POP3, IMAP and full MIME support
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KMail a fully-featured
email client that fits nicely into the K Desktop Environment, KDE. It has
features such as support for filters, PGP/GnuPG privacy, inline attachments,
drag and drop support of messages and attachments and support for multiple
pop accounts
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XCmail a MIME and POP3
capable mailtool for X11 using the Xclasses layout library. XCmail was designed
completely object orientated and by this may be improved easily
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XFMail a GUI mail reader
that will run on most UNIX variants, as well as OS/2 (with the emx libraries
and XFree86). It features LDAP support, Authenticated SMTP (With GPasswd)
support and ESD support
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fetchmail free, full-featured,
robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended
to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links
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KBiff a "biff" or new
mail notification utility. It is highly configurable but very easy to use
and setup. It tries to combine the best of the features of most of the "other"
biff programs out there
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Knews a threaded newsreader with an X Window interface
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News Peruser simple, X-based, offline newsreader for single-user Linux systems with dial-up accress to the net
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NewsX an NNTP client
for Unix. It provides the NNTP capabilities required for small local news
spools on installations with NNTP access only through limited ISP accounts
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Pan A Gnome/GTK Newsreader for X that features easy binary retrieval, automatic grouping of multipart posts and more
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trn Threaded RN, a
newsreader that uses an article's references to order the discussions in
a very natural, reply-ordered sequence called threads
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Arena Web Browser a graphical web browser comprised entirely of free software
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Konqueror the definite place
to find information about Konqueror, a web browser, file manager, universal
file viewer and even a customizable application
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Netscape an extremely professional web browser that is real competition to Internet Explorer
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