| ::tuxor | "linux: the return of the penguin" |
Linux: stronger than windows, more fun than BSD, cheaper than Solaris. The lure of the OS is strong for the coder: a stable, eye-catching platform which comes gratis with more development tools and documentation than Windows vendors would even sell you. Slanted reports have it that Linux is unsuitable for the desktop or workstation; that the interface is arcane and convoluted; that the OS provides no suppot or documentation. In fact Linux easily fills the needs of the typical office or workstation user [admittedly, for home users, there are fewer games ... and not a single talking paperclip]; the interface is the same Unix console/X Windows combination that has been used on SGI and Sun machines for years; and the combined weight of the [ASCII-only] documentation directories on a fresh install weighs in at over 50 MB of tutorials, administrator guides, program manuals, and developer documentation. The greatest danger of a Linux system is not downtime, or lack of applications, or security breaches; it is that the system will consume every spare second of time which once you owned as you tweak it, tune it, refine its operation to the point where 'efficiency' does not do justice to the high-performance machine you have now at your fingertips. Linux is the next level.
-{_____News & GNUs___________________________________}-
_____Freshmeat [Software news, reviews, packages and links]
_____GNU [The GNU 'free software' project homepage] Gnu's not Unix!
_____HCU Linux [The +ORC guys take on Unix ]
_____Linux.org [Linux Online: news, links, 'community interest']
_____Linux Archives [linux software]
_____Linux Center [Linux links by category, Linux in the headlines]
_____Linux Daily [news/community interest]
_____Linux Gazette [online Linux magazine]
_____Linux HQ [kernel info, source browsers, and links]
_____Linux Journal [Monthly print publication with online features]
_____Linux Power [user-oriented; news, reviews, editorials, some interviews and articles]
_____Linux Resources [good starting point; support, community, business, and software sections]
_____Linux Software Archive [Search engine for the Sunsite Linux archives]
_____Linux Software Browser [Index list of the Sunsite Linux archives]
_____Linux Today [News, community interest]
_____Linux World [Online magazine; stories and editorials on linux]
_____LinuxBerg [Tucows for Linux]
_____Simple End-User Linux [Project attempting to make Linux user-friendly]
_____SlashDOT [News,community interest site]
_____Sunsite Archives [Sunsite's Linux archives the FTP way]
_____Themes.org [Themes for KDE, Enlightenment, Afterstep, BlackBox, and other window managers]
_____Web Watcher [Web site to keep track of linnux web sites]
-{_____Documentation___________________________________}-
_____Linux Knowledge Base [Excellent technical & support knowledge base]
_____Linux On Laptops [Sample linux configurations for a gazillion different laptops]
_____Linux Mailing List Archives [Another source for answers to linux problems]
_____FAQs
_____HOW-To's
_____Man Pages
_____Installation and Getting Started Guide
_____Kernel Module Programming Guide
_____Network Administrator's Guide
_____Programmer's Guide
_____System Administrator's Guide
_____The Linux Kernel [Guide to how the Linux kernel works]
-{_____Distros________________________________________}-
_____Caldera [Good for newcomers: runs KDE, Netscape, Star Office straight from the install]
_____Debian [Very tedious installation, but very easy to maintain once installed. A 'sensible' Linux.]
_____M68K Linux [Linux for the Motorola 68000 processors]
_____MacLinux [Linux for a Mac ?!?]
_____Mandrake [Integrates KDE and RedHat for a user-friendly distro]
_____MkLinux [Power PC Linux]
_____NoMad [Maintainable, easy-to-upgrade Linux]
_____PowerPC Linux [Another PPC Linux]
_____RedHat [The most commercial linux, good for first timers, reliable]
_____SGI Linux [Turn your $19K SGI machine into a $900 PC!]
_____Slackware [Will install on anything, even a FAT partition. No-risk distro.]
_____Stampede [Pentium optimized linux, built for speed]
_____Suse [Well done, stable linux with a lof of extra software included. Perhaps the best buy for disc-based distros]
_____Turbo Linux [Quick and easy install, runs Afterstep immediately; well done, great starter]
_____UltraPenguin [Another way to turn an expensive computer into a PC]
_____UltraSPARC Linux [Ditto ... another SPARC linux]
-{_____Micro-Brews___________________________________}-
_____Boot Floppies [A killer resource if you need some crash-recovery tools]
_____BrutalWare [Turn a DOS PC into a Linux workstation with 3 floppies]
_____DLK [Pre-Kernel 2.0, Zip-disk ready, single-floppy version of Linux]
_____DragonLinux [20 MB, FAT-based Linux distro ... run Linux + windows!]
_____hal91 [Linux-on-a-floppy done again]
_____LOAF [Linux On A Floppy .. like PicoBSD w/o the daemon]
_____muLinux [Italian version of Linux on one floppy]
_____PocketLinux [Single floppy, network-oriented version of Linux]
_____Small Kernel Project [For the 386 users out there...]
_____tomsrtbt ["The most Linux on 1 floppy disk." His quote not mine.]
_____Traveller's Linux [One more Linux-on-a-floppy]
_____Trinux [Linux Security Toolkit...2-3 floppy, secure version of Linux]