Linux is the most documented Operating System out there, here are some of the resources that would help you find help and information on everything Linux. - http://www.linuxlinks.com/
Over 30000 Linux related links
- Collection of PDFs
PDFs posted on VGLUG or any other ebook related to Linux
- Vadodara General Linux User Group
This is the group to discuss any idea, solution, questions related to GNU/Linux free of cost, managed by Electromech. To participate, send mail to
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- http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/
The purpose of the Loads of Linux Links project is to collect, organise, classify and maintain important URLs about Linux and the Open Source movement for all levels of Linux users. The LoLL project now has 5000+ links which are updated regularly.
- http://www.novell.com/linux
Novell's Linux Page
- http://www.suse.com
Suse Home Page
- http://www.opensuse.org/
Open Suse Home Page
- The Linux Documentation Project home page
An amazing collection of online HOWTOs and Guides. Mirror sites of the Linux Documentation Project Non-English mirrors of The Linux Documentation Project Just a few of the documents available at the LDP: - Install GNU/Linux without any CD, floppy, USB-key, nor any other removable media
- The Beginners Linux Guide @ ILUG
"A guide on installing and using Linux in plain English." - ALSA: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
- GNU definition of free software
- hacker definition (too many people are misinformed by television and clueless online "journalists" concerning what a "hacker" is)
from: The Jargon File - Simple End User Linux
News, projects and user resources for the end user. - Google groups: comp.os.linux.help
- Linux helpers
- Erik's Linux Page
Linux information for beginners and advanced users by Erik Forsberg. - Samba
SMB for everyone. - Using Samba
- Using Samba, 2nd Edition
- Why Do I Have to Tighten Security on My System? (Why Can't I Just Patch?) By Jay Beale, Lead Developer, Bastille Linux Project
- Stupid, Stupid Protocols: Telnet, FTP, rsh/rcp/rlogin by Jay Beale
- Google
A very fine search engine. Google uses thousands of Linux boxes. - O'Reilly & Associates
Computer books, software, online publishing, great resource! - Top ten tips for Linux users
by Ellen Siever, coauthor of Linux in a Nutshell, Third Edition - K12Linux in Schools Project - Home Page
(See also "Why should open source software be used in schools?" for more school-related links). - Linux security
- The sig11 FAQ
- The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was by Glyn Moody
(an excellent report on the birth and early development of Linux) - Loads Of Linux Links
- Linux timelines (1998 - 2004)
- Tech-notes and white papers on Linux and open-source software
- re-installing LILO
- Frogcement News and a pile of help
- Which Linux Distribution is Best for a Newbie?
- Using the NT Boot Loader to Boot Linux
- Linux voodoo info
Software: (top) Software: Getting it: (top) - Accounting
(top) - Bastille home
fortify your system - Bochs - the open source IA-32 emulation project (run an OS in a virtual machine)
- Browsers
(top) - Amaya
"W3C's Editor/Browser" - browseX
"BrowseX is a lightweight, but powerful alternative Web Browser written by Peter MacDonald." - Firefox
"Firefox 1.5 empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser." - Galeon
"the web. only the web." - Konqueror
"Konqueror - Web Browser, File Manager - and more!" - links
"Links is a text-based browser with support for HTML tables and frames." - lynx
"Lynx is a text browser for the World Wide Web." - Mozilla "Award Winning Browsing, Mail and Editing."
"World Class: Best of 2003, Web Browser -- PC World Magazine" "Editor's Choice Award: Best Web Browser, 2003 -- LinuxJournal Magazine" "Beyond Bliss -- Time Magazine" - Netscape
- Opera
"amazing speed, great performance, high security" - Skipstone
"SkipStone is a Gtk+ Web Browser that embeds Mozilla's rendering component Gecko. It aims to be light and fast with few dependencies." - CAD
(top) - Chat clients
(top) - Gaim - A multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client
supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu - Gyach "Gyach is a GTK+ based Yahoo! Chat client." (graphical user interface)
From the README: "Gyach has been tested on: - RedHat v5.x, v6.x, v7.x, v8.x
- SuSE v6.4 & v7.0
- Mandrake v7.x, v8.x, v9.x
- DragonLinux v2.1
- Debian 2.x, 3.x
- Gentoo Linux 1.2, 1.4
- FreeBSD 4.1.1 (see README.FreeBSD)
- NetBSD v? (see README.NetBSD)
- OpenBSD v?
- Solaris 8 for Intel/x86 (gcc & gtk v1.2.8)
- Solaris 9 for SPARC w/ (gcc, gtk v1.2.10, & make installed)
- Mac OS X (see README.MacOSX)
- Windows 98, NT, 2000 under CygWin (see README.Win32 for requirements)"
- zinc
"What is Zinc? Zinc stands for Zinc Is Not Cur(fl|ph)oo. Zinc is a Yahoo! chat client for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X. Zinc is written in Python and released under GPL. Zinc originally started out as a code fork of Curphoo 0.3.7 but it has been completely rewritten since then. Currently there is absolutely no Curphoo source code in Zinc." - clone hard disks of identical PCs across a network
- Distributions
(top) - dotfiles
- Freshmeat
It's probably here. Use that little "find" box Freshmeat provides. - Games
(top) - gpart an aid to restore partition tables
- Graphics - getting
(top) - html editor: quanta
- ibiblio.org
large collection of files, including distributions - IBM: developerWorlds: Linux: Developer: Linux Technology Center
Contributions by IBM to Linux development. - list of Integrated Development Environments for linux
- Sun java installation instructions
- plugin installation for mozilla
- jigdo
- The Linux Kernel Archives where to find the latest kernel.
- Ogg vorbis patent-free, Open replacement for mp3 encumbrances
- RPM repository on rpmfind.net
RPM packages for various distributions such as Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE. - list of international mirrors of SuSE RPMs
- Linux music and sound apps
- Rosegarden
"Rosegarden is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment." - Sourceforge
"Breaking Down The Barriers to Open Source Development" - tak!cd
- tty recorder
- ext2 undeletion
- virtual network computing
- Webmin "Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix."
Software: Using it: (top) - Apache configuration
- Apache 2
- Datamining Apache Logs with PostgreSQL
- An apt-get primer
- awk tutorials
- O'Reilly Network: Printing Banners and Signs
- Bash
- linux + cell phone + internet
- Linux Certification
- notes on CHanging MODe (permissions)
- In the Beginning was the Command Line
- The Linux Cookbook Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use by Michael Stutz
- Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition by Paul Sheer
- Linux One Stanza Tips
- Debian GNU/Linux kernel compile instructions
- dns setup help
- DoomIII GNU/Linux FAQ
- descramble dvd in 7 perl lines
- DVD authoring:
- Dynamic iptables firewalls
- E-Mail Encryption: Why Isn't Everyone Doing It?
- Fetchmail home
- the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
- Graphics - using:
(top) - Going 3D with Blender: Very first steps
- O'Reilly: Living Linux - Transforming Images by Michael Stutz
A mouse just can't compete with ImageMagick's 'mogrify' command for some tasks. - CLI magic: import, display, mogrify more ImageMagick help
- Graphics tutorials - Blender, The Gimp, Image Magick, hugin & enblend, Tuxpaint, Kino
- My quest for the perfect window manager by "Tril"
The more I use Fvwm, the less patience I have with the limitations of newer, supposedly better Window Managers. - Using a Linux desktop for graphics, media production
- Create Self-Booting Movie CDs
- Linux/X11 Game Writers page
- X Selections, Cut Buffers, and Kill Rings
- lessons in writing HTML
- Creating Installation CDs from various Linux Distributions LG#50 Linux Gazette.
- iptables:
- Linux kernel coding style
- Mgetty + Sendfax Documentation Center
- Mgetty + Sendfax FAQ
- High-availability middleware on Linux
- newbie help
- basic commands for newbies to the CLI
- patching the kernel
- Patch for beginners
- PHP and classes
- Themed web sites using PHP Fast-Templates HOWTO
- Troubleshooting Professional Magazine
Volume 4 Issue 4, April 2000. Apache, Apachecon and PHP. - Webmonkey: MySQL and PHP tutorial
- From Power-Up to Bash Prompt
- Personal Video Recorder (PVR) info:
- Using Regular Expressions (regex's)
- sed:
- aboutSQL
- Linux Standards Base (LSB) 1.1 and Li18nux (internationalization) standards
- moogy's stockwatch.tcl for your desktop
- access your win/dos drives
- kluge permissions (partition-wide at least) on your mounted win/dos drives
Hardware (top) Miscellaneous: (top)
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