Linux and L Guide - Resources and Review

Index of sources of information about the Linux operating system, its applications, and free software in general. English and French display option.
 
Index of sources of information about the Linux operating system, including hardware and software vendors, online publications, software archives and local UK projects.
 
Index to Linux resources including an article about the history of Linux, product information, distributions such as Debian and Red Hat, groups and associations. Foreign language resources also available.
 
Collection of news, features, and tutorials relating to Apache Web Server and other Open Source technologies such as Linux. Users are able to set personal preferences on registration, resulting in email notification when stories of interest are posted.
 
Provides a listing of commands under the UNIX operating system, with a brief description of the function of each, and an indication of correct command syntax.
 
Full text of a book introducing Linux. Covers requirements, installation, system administration, the X window system and networking. Includes tutorials and a summary of basic Unix commands.
 
Collection of forums for computer users, addressing problems with operating systems including DOS, Linux, and different versions of Windows. Also provides links to discussions on hardware and Web authoring issues. Resource is keyword searchable.
 
Full text publication in which creators of open source technologies such as Perl, Linux and Apache collaborate to discuss the vision of the software industry they have created, through essays that explain how the movement works, why it succeeds, and where it is going.
 
Article describing the facts and merits of the decentralized form of Linux development and support. It suggests some ways that the continued development and growth of freely redistributable software such as Linux can be encouraged. Many of the principles are applicable to other free software or open source initiatives.
 
Definition of concepts in computer benchmarking, as they apply to the Linux operating system. Whetstone, an example of a classic benchmark, is analysed in more detail.
 
Collection of software and news items about Linux, including information about new products, reviews, daily and weekly bulletins.
 
Information about the Linux operating system, its history, and full text of selected white papers. Includes instructions on how to get Linux and offers French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese language options.
 
Extensive software and document archive about Linux: a complete but free version of the UNIX operating system for Intel PCs. Linux includes Emacs, X11R6, gcc, TeX and LaTeX, groff, TCP/IP, SLIP and UUCP.
 
Help for newcomers to the Linux operating system, tackling basic terminology and directory structures, and providing instructions on how to manipulate and store files. Includes book reviews, articles on the open source software movement, the limitations of Linux documentation, and differences between NT and Linux. A forum for discussing hardware, software, and networking problems, programming, and Web security is available.
 
Set of documents about the release of version 2.2.1 of the Linux operating system. Multiple enhancements are described including support for many new processors and system types, the ability to read Microsoft's NTFS and FAT32 file systems, a kernel
based method for accessing video, and several new hardware drivers.
 
Windows software archive, plus several versions of Linux and collections of software for Unix, Macintosh, and Amiga. Includes systems software, graphics and educational programs, games, documentation, audio, video and image files, and selected newsgroup archives.
 
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