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Lex Mercatoria: Information Technology Pages
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| Information Technology |
 Technology News |
| Bandwidth |
| Communication |
| WWW Origins FAQs & Guides |
| Domain Name Registration |
| browsers and servers |
| Protocols |
 Electronic Commerce & Encryption
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| Online Payments
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| Virtual Identities
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| Electronic Publishing & Markup |
| Intellectual Property
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| Open Source - Fresh Memes in Information/Knowledge Sharing (a feast of the commons? / percolation?) |
| OSs |
OS - Linux  |
| Programming - Scripting and Development Languages |
| Backup & Versioning |
| Data Management, Search Engine Developers and Linux Databases |
| Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence & Fuzzy Logic |
| Virtual Network Computing |
| Linux Security |
| Hardware |
| WWW where it began and some Major Players |
| Computer Shows |
| Net Security and Security Hacking |
| Views of the Information Age |
| Information Technology Compendium |
General Press Technology News Internet News Linux News PC Press Technology News Links| News Links |
News Now - Technology Slashdot Linux Today Technology News Linx International Data Corporation| Technology News Hourly, Daily, Weekly |
News Now - Technology Slashdot Linux Today Wired News Ars Technica "The PC Enthusiasts Resource" Forum Google News: Linux OR Debian OR Knoppix Google Science & Technology News Internet dot com News Internet Law Linx News Linx Internet dot com Internet News Salon Magazine on Technology Computer News Daily PC World Today Ziff Davis CNet News . com Internet News . com TechWeb E-Commerce Times Technology News International Herald Tribune CNN Computing CNN Financial News - Digital Bytes MSNBC Technology Anchor Desk Ziff Davis Time Digital Daily Personal Technology Walt Mossberg from The Wall Street Journal The Edge "to arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge"| Linux News |
Top News Stories of the Week News Now - Technology Linux (Linux features a lot) Elsewhere off this site: 
Linux Links Linux Today Linux Journal Linux Weekly News Linux Lounge - Ziff Davis UK Linux Focus Linux Orbit Linux World Forums FAQ Linux Gazette Geocrawler Linux e-mails, "Knowledge Archive" Josh's Linux Guide Free Linux training materials Linux Training UK| Internet News |
Internet News / Internet World Daily at Internet.com Internet World PC Magazine World Wide Web Internet User Ziff Davis Internet Magazine .Net Internet Works NetSurfer Digest TechWeb WebMaster Magazine CIO WebBusiness| Web Server News |
Apache Week(ly)| Other Technology News |
EduPage Information Technology developments4{~bandwidth BandwidthThis list does not attempt to be exhaustive. It provides links to sources we have found particularly useful, and to other more comprehensive lists of sources on the subject. Any references to articles on related topics are to provide background into the technologies mentioned. ADSL Cable Fiber Optics Power Lines Wireless| ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
Study: DSL speeds can smoke cable By John Borland and Jim Davis Staff Writers, CNET News.com May 17, 1999, 4:45 p.m. PT "In a broadband drag race between cable modem and DSL access, even low-grade DSL is as much as 12 percent faster than cable--at least during consumers' prime-time evening hours, according to a new study released today." G.Lite Offers DSL Power: Standard will push high-speed Net access and create demand for faster PCs. by Nancy Weil, IDG News Service, Boston Bureau June 24, 1999, 11:00 a.m. PT| Cable |
Digital Nation sponsored sites: High Speed Access Cable ModemsDOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Internet Specification) a cable modem standard. Cable Modems March 31, 1999 by Les Freed and Frank J. Derfler, Jr, ZDNet| and |
Time Article Broadband game just beginning Fri, 07 May 1999 08:01:26 GMT Michael Fitzgerald and Margaret Kane, ZDNet| Fiber Optics |
Nortel to Launch World's Fastest Net Technology 04 May 1999, 12:14 PM CST By Martin Stone, Newsbytes. "The new technology is called OPTera 1600G, an optical amplification system providing enough fiber capacity and speed to transport the entire 4 million book collection of the US Library of Congress from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles in seconds through one single strand of fiber, the company claims."| Power Lines |
| Wireless |
Symbian A partnership to prevent anyone (read Microsoft) from dominating the wireless industry. Partners include Nokia (Finland), Ericsson (Sweden), Motorola (United States) and Matsushita (Japan).4{~communication CommunicationThis list does not attempt to be exhaustive. It provides links to sources we have found particularly useful, and to other more comprehensive lists of sources on the subject. Any references to articles on related topics are to provide background into the technologies mentioned. Chat, Instant Messaging p2p, Peer to Peer eMail Fax Software Web Page - Sticky Notes News readers & newsgroups Internet Telephony Remote administration & file transfer Whois| Cients |
Mutt Console Client Evolution Sylpheed includes a news-reader KMail| p2p - Peer to Peer |
E Rights Open Source Distributed Capabilities Freenet Free Network Project Mojo Nation Groove Networks Gnutella Gnutella UK| Chat and Instant Messaging |
Jabber Jabber Central. Jabber Linux Clients IMCom Jabber Console client GAIM Jabber Console client Everybuddy Jabber Console client UN*X IRC Clients IRSSI IRC Resources Gnome ICU LICQ X-Chat (Linux IRC client) Odigo NetMeeting Microsoft Windows 95 & NT Netscape AOL Instant Messaging Download TalkCity Yahoo Ultimate Chatlist Forum One "Search over 310,000 Web Forum Discussions"| Mail Servers |
Sendmail FAQ 
download Securemailer IBM Procmail FAQ Tips Mailing list archive download Communigate pricy| Web page Sticky Notes |
Odigo Utok Say No to TV opposes Third Voice| Newsreaders |
Google Advanced newsgroup search Deja - News Groups Deja Service for Usenet Newsgroups Mailgate a www based Usenet newsgroup interface/mailgate Newsreaders Tin Console Pan Sylpheed| Internet Telephony |
OhPhone man page downloads Speak Free Secure fully encrypted Chat Program DownloadsSpeakFreely AdirVoIP (NetSpeak ex WebPhone) Vocaltec The Internet Phone Company| Remote administration & file transfer |
OpenSSH ssh & scp (secure connections and transfers) VNC Virtual Network Computing Tight VNC Real VNC Laplink (ms windows) PC Anywhere Symantec (Windows)| Whois |
Better Whois4{~faqs WWW Origins FAQs & GuidesThis list does not attempt to be exhaustive. It provides links to sources we have found particularly useful, and to other more comprehensive lists of sources on the subject.| FAQs |
WWW Frequently Asked Questions, Guides and Manuals CUI WWW Frequently Asked Questions CUI| WWW Origins |
World Wide Web Consortium WWW Home Page - Where WWW began at Cern (it appears to be loosing its way though. The www consortium has become an exclusive (expensive membership) powerful vendor interest oriented group that seeks it seems, to morph the web to the end of those interests - rather different from the origins of the www) IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force NCSA Mosaic Internet Resources Meta Index Starting points for Internet Exploration| Book Publishers |
O'Reilly at ora.com Wrox Press Addison Wesley Longman, Computer Science McGraw Hill, Computing4{~domain.names Domain Name Registration Domain Name Registration Whois Domain Name Dispute Resolution| Domain Name Registration |
ICANN the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers InterNIC .net (.com .org .net) Name Secure (.com .org .net) Network Solutions (.com .org .net) Register .com (.com .org .net +) WebJump Nominet (UK) Internic .com (not to be mistaken with Internic . net) Name Zero Free domain name registration provided you accept advertising| Whois |
Whois at Global Registry Services NSI Registry Better-Whois Whois InterNIC Whois Arin| Domain Name Dispute Resolution |
Domain Name Dispute Resolution Wipo WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions (Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy and Rules) Search WIPO Cases and WIPO Panel Decisions Domain Name Dispute Resolution US National Arbitration Forum Disputes.org Online Dispute Resolution Services| Dynamic DNS |
Dynamic DNS Dynamic DNS Linux/Unix4{~browsers browsers and servers| Browsers |
w3m Console Browser Linux w3m manual w3m at Gnu Phoenix Browser Mozilla Netscape Opera other supported OSs Troll Tech Neoplanet Emissary Attachmate Project Mnemonic Star Office Browser (Linux) Browser Watch Spyglass "Enhanced Mosaic" Internet Explorer Microsoft| Web Servers |
Apache Netscape Internet Information Server Microsoft Roxen Apache Week(ly) CNet Apache Guide Apache 1.3 user's guide Apache Server Survival Guide Apache resource center UK Web The Apache FAQ Webpedia Apache FAQ C2Net Secure Apache based server USA and Canada Elsewhere Apache SSL Enhydra Open Source WebSphere IBM Virtuoso Zope "the leading Open Source web application server. Zope enables teams to collaborate in the creation and management of dynamic web-based business applications such as intranets and portals. Zope makes it easy to build features such as site search, news, personalization, and e-commerce into your web applications."4{~protocols Protocols TCP/IP MIME LDAP SOAP Authentication - Virtual Identities The MIME Information Page Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions OpenLDAP Open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. OpenLDAP Faq-O-Matic LDAP FAQ Critical Angle Cameron Laird's personal developer's perspective on LDAP LDAP: Use as Directed by Tim Howes (co-author of LDAP), Netscape A System Administrator's View of LDAP An LDAP Roadmap & FAQ PerLDAP: Source Code Release contact Leif Hedstrom, Mozilla PerLDAP Programmer's Guide PerlLDAP FAQ Perl LDAP Graham Barr 
gbarr@pobox.com Directory Server: An LDAP PERL package for creating an interface to LDAP API on UNIX platforms Linux LDAP & SSL integration LDAP ldap@umich.edu archive Introduction to the SLAPD and SLURPD Administrator's Guide SOAP - Microsoft SOAP DevelopMentor SOAP Frequently Asked Questions Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) OASIS SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) The DotGNU Project DotGNU Virtual Identities Liberty Alliance Project Passport, Hailstorm, .Net etc./electronic.commerce/toc.html4{! ../electronic.commerce/toc.html Electronic Commerce & Encryption4{! ../electronic.commerce/payments.html Online Payments4{! ../electronic.commerce/authentication.html Virtual Identities4{~markup Electronic Publishing & MarkupThis list does not attempt to be exhaustive. It provides links to sources we have found particularly useful, and to other more comprehensive lists of sources on the subject. Design and Resource Bases Character Sets TeX & LaTeX HTML SGML XML XHTML PDF (Adobe) Yaml PHP - Hypertext Pre-processor HTML Special Characters UCS Unicode Image Technology Sound Technology Multimedia Technology Collaborative Publishing Source Bank Revolution9. Search tool for developers on the Internet containing over 5000 fully searchable and browsable resources to help help software professionals in their development tasks. (announced August 24, 1999) The TeXbook LaTeX A document preparation system TeX Resources on the Web LaTeX: A Document Preparation System A (La)Tex encyclopaedia LaTeX Navigator LyX (LaTeX Editor) Primer Getting Started with LaTeX, David R. Wilkins LaTeX help LaTeX 2 HTML All About LaTeX2HTML Nikos Drakos teTeX teTeX 0.9 download Lyx IBM Tech Explorer Browser plug-in enabling viewing of LaTeX documents (MS IE; Netscape) Groff home page Groff download| Markup - Xanadu |
Xanadu (developing Ted Nelson's original idea for hypertext) About xanadu| Markup - HTML |
HTML 4.01 Specification W3C Recommendation 24 December 1999 (evolved development of Tim Berners Lee's hypertext markup for the www) (html and xml are subsets of sgml) NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML HTML Tutorial Character entity references in HTML 4 iso8859-1 table HTML Special Characters HTML 4.0 Reference Library (3Mb Download)| Markup - XHTML |
XHTML The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language. A reformulation of HTML 4.0 in XML 1.0 by the W3C. Proposed Recommendation of 10 December 1999. W3 Org XML (html and xml are subsets of sgml) XSL - W3 Consortium W3 Consortium Working Draft SGML/XML Page Robin Cover OASIS XML Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards XML: Extensible Markup Language XML com XML Hack Developer News from the XML Community Frequently Asked Questions about the Extensible Markup Language XML FAQ XML Tree "The Leading Directory of XML Content on the Web" Monitoring Updates with XML XML News CPEX "Global standards for privacy-enabled customer data exchange" Coordinated effort of 21 consortium members to standardise the collection of customer data in XML. A coordinated effort to standardise XML tags and DTDs [Document Type Definitions], with regard to customer data, to ensure its interoperability and to prevent the fragmentation of XML. XML dot com XML & IBM Developer Works Featured XML resources Selected from developerWorks and IBM product sites| XML Vocabularies |
Legal XML "mission to develop open non-proprietary technical standards for legal documents and related applications" XFDL Extensible Forms Description Language () RosettaNet Business to business information exchange using XML, UML and other common protocols IFX - Interactive Financial Exchange ebXML Breaking News! The UN and OASIS effort: "Creating a Single Global Electronic Market" Monthly Archives for ebxml-awareness Electronic Business XML Initiative (ebXML) The XML Cover Pages XAML where is it then? XAML (Transaction Authority Markup Language) "vendor neutral that enables the coordination and processing of online transactions in the rapidly developing in the rapidly emerging world of XML web services" backed by Hewlet Packard, IBM, Oracle, and Sun. BizTalk Framework Microsoft XML Info Company List of XML Books Abortext XML Resources Abortext XSL Tutorial XML Schema Requirements XML and Databases by Ronald Bourret, Technical University of Darmstadt DocBook including the online text DocBook: The Definitive Guide by Norman Walsh & Leonard Muellner 1-56592-580-7 DocBook Install mini-HOWTO Robert B Easter| XML Software |
XML Software SAX by its primary author David Megginson John Cowan's XML index XML::DOM CPAN Perl Free XML Software XML for All XML Authority XML authoring tool X Metal XML authoring tool FpML an XML-based markup language that allows for Net-based integration of services such as electronic trading and risk analysis backed by IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers and J.P. Morgan. 18/06/1999 Electronic Commerce Modeling Language (ECML) Cover Pages ECML Electronic Commerce Modeling Language (ECML) is to be a universal format for wallets and merchant web sites. ECML uses a set of uniform field names to streamlines the process by which merchants collect electronic data for shipping, billing, and payment. Its development is a collaboration between: American Express, AOL, Compaq, CyberCash, IBM, MasterCard, Microsoft, SETCo, Sun Microsystems, Transactor Networks, Trintech, and Visa. 18/06/1999 Enhydra Open Source Java/XML Application Server SGML Org SGML/XML Page Robin Cover SGML ftp Oslo Softquad - Panorama - SGML browser SGML Tools SGML Tools - download PDF Portable Document Format Adobe Acrobat Reader Xpdflatex2pdf Yaml - Yet Another Markup Language (structured data storage/ programming language independent data structures. Improved coding efficiency, little "markup" and simplified parsing, natural programming fit, (unlike XML? well more natural & efficient (in programming (& storage) terms) than XML anyway.)) Yaml list information Yaml wiki Most recent Yaml messages [Yaml core on Geocrawler] Yaml Maiing list Look Ma, No Tags Yaml Article at XML.com Yaml Reference Card Yaml Ain't Markup Language Yaml Spec. Yaml XML Yaml for Ruby Yaml for Ruby Cookbook Yaml for Ruby Documentation Yaml for Ruby Yaml for Ruby SourceForge Yaml.rb RAA entry (Ruby Application Archive) Yaml (oni etc) Toms Lib RubyYamlEmitter PHPSee also Zope Web Designer's Paradise Use IT Alertbox column, Jakob Nielsen Webmaster Reference Library Web Mastery Guides to HTML Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing by Philip Greenspun Intelliforum Beyond HTML: "a resource for web developers, covering concepts that extend beyond basic HTML development" "focus here is on how to further utilise [web related]... technologies to your advantage"See PHPand Zope WebDAV Resources "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". A set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. WebDAV FAQ Mod Dav (an Apache Dav module) OpenLDAP Open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. LDAP: Use as Directed by Tim Howes (co-author of LDAP), Netscape A System Administrator's View of LDAP An LDAP Roadmap & FAQ PerLDAP: Source Code Release contact Leif Hedstrom, Mozilla PerLDAP Programmer's Guide PerlLDAP FAQ Perl LDAP Graham Barr gbarr@pobox.com Directory Server: An LDAP PERL package for creating an interface to LDAP API on UNIX platforms Linux LDAP & SSL integration LDAP ldap@umich.edu archive Introduction to the SLAPD and SLURPD Administrator's Guide SOAP - Microsoft SOAP DevelopMentor SOAP Frequently Asked Questions Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) OASIS SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) Web Wisdom DevHead ZD Net CNet Web Builder Web Page Design for Designers HTML Special Characters UCS - Universal Character Set Unicode Character Set Standards @ Diffuse| HTML Special Characters |
HTML Document Representation Using Special Characters on Web Pages: Cross-Platform Considerations by Bob Baumel Special Characters in HTML "ISO Latin" and "HTML Entities" ¡Special HTML Characters! Otherwise known as iso8859-1 Special HTML ISO Standard ISO8859-1 Latin-1 Characters Codes HTML and Forms FAQ Special Characters Reference Web Monkey Character Set Standards @ Diffuse Guide to character sets @ Diffuse| UCS - Universal Character Set |
The Universal Character Set (UCS) "the Universal Multi-octet Coded Character Set (UCS) specified in ISO/IEC 10646-1 For many applications of the UCS, the characters of the BMP are all that will be required. It would be very wasteful of resources if a 32-bit coding was imposed on applications that required only a subset that could be encoded in 16 bits." Subject: ISO 8859-1 National Character Set FAQ Roadmaps to the Universal Character Set This page indexes a number of real-size maps of ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode| Unicode |
The Unicode Standard Unicode home page What is Unicode? FAQ Unicode in the Unix Environment by Roman Czyborra Unicode and Multilingual Support in Web Browsers and HTML Alan Wood's Unicode Resources Unicode Transformation Formats: UTF-8 & Co.| Other character Sets |
International register of coded character sets to be used with escape sequences Portable Network Graphics Portable Network Graphics at W3 Multiple-image Network Graphics A PNG-like Image Format Supporting Multiple Images, Animation and Transparent JPEGs SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics Vector Graphics in XML - Animation Vector Graphics in XML - Animation W3C| Ogg Vorbis |
Ogg Vorbis "fully Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general purpose compressed audio format for high quality" Ogg beats MP3 & The Rest In Listening Test Slashdot| MP3 |
MP3 .com MPeg3 software site MP3 Debate MP3 Box Excite on MP3 MP3 Encoder CD Copy Win Amp NullSoft| Interest Groups |
Secure Digital Music Initiative Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) will endorse no single format. "SDMI is trying to establish standards for hardware players. Beyond that they will develop standards for security and watermarking but it is unlikely it will recommend a single format Artist Direct SMIL at the W3 Consortium Smil Links Web Developer SMIL at the XML Resource Guide Cult 3D Shockwave Macromedia| Collaborative (web) Publishing Tools/tech |
TWikki "a flexible, powerful, and easy to use Web-based collaboration platform. Use TWiki to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser" Zope "the leading Open Source web application server. Zope enables teams to collaborate in the creation and management of dynamic web-based business applications such as intranets and portals. Zope makes it easy to build features such as site search, news, personalization, and e-commerce into your web applications."4{! ../intellectual.property/toc.html Intellectual Property4{~open.society.memes Open Source - Fresh Memes in Information/Knowledge Sharing (a feast of the commons? / percolation?)This list does not attempt to be exhaustive. It provides links to sources we have found particularly useful, and to other more comprehensive lists of sources on the subject. Open Standards & Protocols / Interoperability Free Software Foundation Open Source Software Open Source & Education Groklaw Tangential News Books Sampling of open source related technologies & projects Other .html Intellectual Property alternative memes and Linux| Tangential News - primarily on Linux, may include some on "open source" generally |
MIT to Make Nearly all course material available free on the World Wide Web "unprecedented step challenges the privatization of knowledge" MIT News - April 4 2001Linux: Corporate Interest Open season Glyn Moody says that Microsoft may rule desktop PCs today, but a serious rival is now on its way Thursday January 30, 2003 The Guardian Banks Want to Swim With Penguin By Michelle Delio 02:00 AM Feb. 03, 2003 01/27/03; Vol. 17 No. 20 Disruptive technologies by Joab Jackson Developers turn to Linux 10:26 Tuesday 28th January 2003 Reuters Source: Reuters LinuxWorld: High prices and unreliable systems drive programmers to switch platforms from Windows to Linux, although Microsoft continues to dominate the desktop Reuters introduces Linux-based market data feeds Reuters, 02.03.03, 12:01 AM ET Rise of the 'Consumer' Linux Distribution LinuxPosted by michael on Wednesday February 05, 2003 Group Hopes to Give New Life to Desktop Linux By Thor Olavsrud 5 February 2003 Life looks good for Linux BBC 22 January, 2003 Could Linux dethrone the software king? By Richard Waters Published: January 21 2003, January 22 2003 edition Slashdot FT on Europe's Open Source Option "The Financial Times offers a very interesting read about Linux, its possibilities for business, and its threat to Microsoft. Also a second article about "Europe's open-source option"." Linux makes new PC waves, and profits Jim Cole January 17, 2003 Linux and the market's big geographic change Bank's faith in Linux pays dividends (Communications /Network infrastructure /) More foreign banks switching to Linux EL Today: Massive CSFB Trading Architecture Now Powered by Red Hat Wall Street Embraces Linux (Forbes) FT (& American Banker) Why Linux made inroads at Financial Institutions (FT) "Why I feel Linux will fundamentally change the Information Technology Industry" IBM 2000 Annual Report Linux for IBM FAQ Linux waddles from obscurity to the big time Momentum builds as upstart operating system proves it can compute (USA Today August 2002) Larry Ellison: Oracle Betting On Linux By Dan Orzech December 20, 2002: Oracle is seeing a huge trend towards Linux, says the company's CEO, and is pitching its new database clustering technology as the ideal way to take advantage of the open source operating system and low-cost Intel hardware. Move aside, IBM. Oracle is jumping on the Linux bandwagon. IDC: Linux Becoming Entrenched in Capital Markets By Thor Olavsrud Linux is well on its way to becoming entrenched in capital markets, with leading edge firms turning to the platform for mission-critical applications, according to a new report by IDC Financial Services (the fruit of IDC's acquisition of Meridien Research). December 19, 2002 Free Linux operating system wins some big-name fans By Kim Peterson Seattle Times technology reporter December 23, 2002 Microsoft should 'fear the Penguin' By Robert Jaques [10-01-2003] Goldman Sachs spells out a stark warning to Redmond - "Microsoft should "fear the Penguin" as Linux moves into the heart of corporate IT infrastructures, according to Goldman Sachs...The investment bank is optimistic about the future of the open source operating system in its Fear the Penguin study." Wall St. leans toward Linux By LUCAS MEARIAN OCTOBER 21, 2002 Source: Computerworld With a handful of key Wall Street brokerage firms acting as icebreakers, Linux is quickly gaining ground on Unix and Windows as a mission-critical operating system within the securities industry. The attractions: its flexibility across systems and the savings it yields through the use of commodity hardware. "The list of people in the queue who are saying 'When I have a new project, I'm going to use Linux' is larger than we can handle," said Rick Carey, chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch & Co. in New York. "I'd say it will be significant over the next year. A majority of new projects are interested in Linux." Feature: Counting on Linux By jack mccarthy 9 January, 2003 8:02 san francisco, U.S. "At financial services giant Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., CTO John McKinley is blazing a trail to boost productivity and enhance ROI with his strategy. And that trail has led him to pursue a company-wide deployment of Linux open-source software. McKinley says Linux is ready for prime time and set to take on increasing responsibility in the datacenter. "The speed of the evolution of the Linux story has surprised even me," he says... CTOs of major enterprises such as Merrill Lynch, which claimed US$21.8 billion in revenue in 2001, are adopting Linux in increasing numbers and scale. These chief technologists, spurred by the new reality of leaner, meaner IT budgets, cite savings in hardware and software costs as well as benefits of the operating system's stability and scalability. A 2002 Forrester Research Inc. survey found that of 286 IT decision-makers, 28 percent plan to use Linux for enterprise application servers in 2003 and 31 percent plan to use Linux for Web servers. Chief technologists are reporting favorable results, experts say. They say doubts about Linux are gradually disappearing as the OS gains acceptance and support from big-name vendors such as IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. " Nimble edge slowly erodes for Microsoft January 13, 2003Linux: Cost Savings + Superior Technology Slashdot | Amazon: Linux Saved Us Millions Amazon saves millions with Linux switch - Tech News - CNET.com Google's Linux (not so) Secret Google's open-source secrets Google Web Directory - Computers > Open Source > Advocacy MS paper touts Unix in Hotmail's Win2k switch By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 21/11/2002 Intel's Linux use saved $200 million in two years - Inside Intel's IT department Linux project gives schools networks at fraction of Windows cost Feature: Linux a cheaper choice Samba Runs Rings around Windows 2000 "Connecting" Linux to Windows (estimated 100% better performance, 4 times the scalability) SGI Demos 64-Proc Linux BoxLinux: Database Turbolinux 7 Server and IBM DB2 set performance recordLinux: Super Computing IBM: Linux is the 'logical successor' The day is approaching when Linux will likely replace IBM's version of Unix, says the company's top software executive. February 03, 2003 IBM throwing its weight behind Linux By Stephen Shankland Special to ZDNet News January 29, 2003 NEW YORK--The day is approaching when Linux will likely replace IBM's version of Unix, the company's top software executive said, an indication that the upstart operating system's stature is rising within Big Blue. Linux to enter supercomputing top five Implications of Linux supercomputers for AMD, Intel $24.5 Million Linux Supercomputer by HP HP to build Linux supercomputer - Hewlett-Packard announced a high-profile contract Tuesday to build a Linux-powered supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Energy. HP creates off-the-shelf (top 500) supercomputer Slashdot story Linux Supercomputer Howls by IBM Linux clusters scale better and cost less 12:43 Monday 4th November 2002 Grant Gross Linux clusters can scale better than supercomputers, and have good administrations tools. Plus -- they are much cheaper Linux Scales New Heights Ideas 2003 CIO Magazine Jan 1 2003 top 500 supercomputersGovernment Interest India gives thumbs up to Linux By Nick Farrell [02-01-2003] Indian Government Moves to Let Linux In Linux BusinessPosted by CowboyNeal on Thursday December 26, 2002 Webi writes "The government of India has started taking precise, wide-reaching steps to usher in a Linux wave in India." India sure seems to be a highly contested arena lately. Interestingly, India's plan calls for government-sponsored support and call centers. Looks like they've really thought this through. Govt move on to let in Linux PRASENJIT BHATTACHARYA TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2002 12:54:49 PM ] Linux and the market's big geographic change 
European Union IDA Study On Open Source Software "Study into the use of open source software in the public sector" (September 2001) Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study Institute of Infonomics at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands (July 2002) Governments should switch to open source - study EU Report Advocates Pooling Open Source Software Slashdot The Linux developer lifestyle, exposed German gov deal offers Linux great leap forward in Europe US Navy using Linux Norwegian Statskonsult Endorses Linux/Open Source Software for the Public Sector (August 2001, English Translation, pdf) Rapport 2001:7 Åpen programvare - "anvendelighetene av Linux og annen åpen programvare i statlig forvaltning" Norway snubs Microsoft also Norway says No Way to Microsoft Germany likes Linux by John Blau, October 30, 2002 Open source seeks growth in government market By Gretel Johnston October 30, 2002 New Zealand Open letter "consider an official position favouring 'open source' software (OSS) for computing in the government and in business." ... "Countries like Mexico, Brazil, France, and China are already considering legislation to favour OSS deployment in government institutions, schools, and in business." Venezuela's Government Shifts to Open Source Software (August 2002) Venezuela Goes Open Source Slashdot MS in Peruvian Open Source Nightmare off The Register and including link to "the original letter" (in Spanish) and "the FUD letter from Microsoft" (in Spanish) Another copy of the letter in answer to MS (which including some of the Merits of Open Source) DR. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez, Congressman of the Republica of Perú. http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/04/220237.shtml?tid=117 Slashdot: Free Software Law in Peruvian Congress Project Ägypten (Free Software Sphinx-Clients) German Government funds secure mail project, potentially saving its businesses and tax paying populace £$ millions - and potentially those of other nations as well (a feast of the commons?). "The Sphinx project launched by German authorities aims to improve secure email exchange... Proprietary products are already on the way, but with the project Ägypten there is now also a Free Software solution going to be realized for popular mail user agents (sphinx-enabling KMail and mutt are essential goals)." Interface: The Penguin catches on in the Middle East Linux is emerging as a viable alternative operating system for businesses all over the world City saves with Linux, thin clients - The sun is shining on Linux in the Florida Panhandle. At a time when Microsoft Windows dominates the corporate desktop, the City of Largo has chosen Linux. Governments - Philippines, Denmark, Eastern Europe Linux? UK Government backs open source U.K. government backs open source UK unveils Open Source policy, may make it 'default' option Exploiting [irreprable!] design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation. Slashdot (Shattering Windows)General Interest Is Linux poised to topple Microsoft? CNN September 4, 2002 Survey: Linux growing Linux Replacing Windows More Than Unix Slashdot Are the Floodgates Opening on Microsoft?Open Infrastructure HP to W3C: We Support Royalty-Free Standards for the Web Infrastructure Oct 4, 2001 Learning to Love the Penguin "I set out to use nothing but Linux for a month. Cold turkey." Geoff Palmer, New Zealand, Monday, 1 October, 2001 PHP Overtakes Microsoft's ASP as Web's #1 Server- side Scripting LanguageWho is hostile? Lead Windows developer bugged by security MS 'Software Choice' scheme a clever fraud By Bruce Perens What Gates' attacks on the GPL really mean - Richard Stallman Microsoft Attacks Free Software Developers with New License MS disappears claim that Windows is legal requirement Crashing computers cost U.K. billions (needless to say this one is about someone else's computers/software/OS) 'Think Tank' Issues Microsoft-Funded Troll as reported/commented-upon on Slashdot Initiative for Software Choice " a global initiative promoting neutral government procurement, standards and public R&D policies for software!" Linux battle becomes political BBC MS leads lobby against open source ZD Net| Technology & "Freedom" |
Electronic Frontier Foundation| Free Software Foundation |
Free Software Foundation "all information should be shared" FSF - Free Software Foundation "The Free Software Foundation (FSF), founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software - particularly the GNU operating system(used widely today in its GNU/Linux variant)--- and free (as in freedom) documentation. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software." FSF Europe - Free Software Foundation Europe GNU's Not Unix! "The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system.(GNU is a recursive acronym for `GNU's Not Unix'; it is pronounced 'guh-NEW'.)" Philosophy of the GNU Project Free Software LicensesThe Gnu Public Licence - GPL provides the following freedoms subject to the conditions that may be summarised as follows (This is a RA summary of the GPL (2002w17) and has not been approved by the FSF (Free Software Foundation)):| 1. On condition that any distribution you make of: |
| (a) this software; and or |
| (b) any modified versions of this software |
| shall be subject to the GPL [under the (same conditions as the) GPL] you are: |
| i. free to copy this software; |
| ii. free to view the source code of this software; |
| iii. free to add to or otherwise modify the source code of this software; |
| iv. free to distribute this software and any chages you make to this software; |
| v. free to charge for the software you distribute (whether with or without modification). |
| 2. In exchange for the freedoms (1 i to v) outlined above, you agree under the GPL (1 (a) and (b)) that all the GPL freedoms shall remain present in any modification or distribution of this software. |
| To Reiterate: the condition for the freedoms granted under this license (the GPL, [summarised above]) is the provision (making available) of the source code for any modificaton or distribution you make under the same license (i.e. under the GPL). |
Richard Stallman's single greatest contribution, (under which much wonderful code has been produced and is protected. The power of Linux development is not so necessarily tied to Gnu as it is the GPL! - thank you Stallman, thank you Torvalds and all who have contributed to GPL software development). GNU General Public License (GPL/ Copyleft) GNU Lesser General Public License GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) Richard Stallman's Personal Home Page Don't fear the GPL| Open Source |
Open Sources : Voices from the Open Source Revolution 1st Edition January 1999, O'Reilly & Associates The Open Source Story Open Source Initiative (OSI) "a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program." The Open Source Definition opensource.org The Open Source Definition Authoritative version| Bruce Perens wrote the first draft of this document as "The Debian Free Software Guidelines", and refined it using the comments of the Debian developers in a month-long e- mail conference in June, 1997. He removed the Debian-specific references from the document to create the "Open Source Definition." |
Open Source Project Site hosted by VA Linux OSI approved Licenses at Sourceforge.net League for Programming Freedom "The League for Programming Freedom is an organization that opposes software patents and user interface copyrights." Open Source Writers Group| "Involve users worldwide in software creation as allowing them to contribute to the ongoing process of improving the software they use, results in more useful, better designed, and more robust creations." Eric Raymond* |
Open Source IT OSI - Open Source Inc Salon's Free Software Project Online Linux Story Andrew Leonard SalonMagazine - Open Source PC Magazine - Open Source OReilly - Open Source Open Code Berkman Center for Internet and Society The Power of Open Code SourceXchange O'Reilly & HP Open Source's - Eric Steven Raymond projects random writings Bruce Perens Personal Home Page (now with HP) Center for the Public Domain| Open Standards & Protocols / Interoperability |
The Open Group sponsored by Compaq, Fujutsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Hitachi Siemens, IBM, Motorola, Sun IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force Open p2p O'Reilly Standards Organisations (not all of them open standards bodies) W3C - World Wide Web Consortium questionable - flirting with dubious ideas (contemplating a false turn) OASIS - Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards Internet Society Linux Standard Base "Standardizing the Penguin" of the Free Standards Group| Groups Against Software Patents |
League for Programming Freedom Against Software Patents February 28, 1991 "The League for Programming Freedom is an organization that opposes software patents and user interface copyrights" Free Patents Organisation "Protecting Innovation & Competition in the IT Industry - Protect business and liberty from software patents" Europe| Education |
Simple End User Linux a volunteer project currently focussing on Linux in Education, Linux in Science and Advocacy Documents Open Source Education Foundation "Superior technology in and for schools - enhancing technology for K12 Education" Why should open source software be used in schools? *** Nations Uniting for Open Source Nations Uniting for Open Source (supplement) EU Software Patent Hearing Report is Online Linux in the schools Learning to Love the Penguin I set out to use nothing but Linux for a month. Cold turkey. Geoff Palmer, New Zealand, Monday, 1 October, 2001 koha, the first open source integrated library system| Groklaw |
Groklaw| OSS Technology Sampling |
Open Source Advocacy @ Google Open Source Advocacy @ Dmoz Linux Linux @ Google Linux @ Dmoz Google also see Google Advanced Search and Google Directory and Google Advanced NewsGroups Search| Google is built largely upon |
open source technologies such as Linux, Perl and Python Dmoz Open Directory GPG - The GNU Privacy Guard (Open PGP) The DotGNU Project DotGNU Virtual Identities Open ssh (Secure shell) - secure remote computing VNC - Virtual Network Computing remote computer desktop access over a wide variety of architectures. Virtual Network Computing using ssh Samba file sharing between linux and windows Apache TWikki "a flexible, powerful, and easy to use Web-based collaboration platform. Use TWiki to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser" Zope "the leading Open Source web application server. Zope enables teams to collaborate in the creation and management of dynamic web-based business applications such as intranets and portals. Zope makes it easy to build features such as site search, news, personalization, and e-commerce into your web applications." DocBook Nupedia "We are building the world's largest international, peer-reviewed encyclopedia." (check) Wikipedia "a collaborative project to produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch" OpenOffice "an Open Source community project building the next generation of office-productivity software. Sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc., and hosted by CollabNet, Inc., OpenOffice.org provides the full infrastructure for global, Open Source community work and growth." StarOffice cross-platform office suite by Sun. Watch out for version 6.0 first quarter 2002 AbiWord seamlessly cross-platform, Open Source Word Processor by AbiSource GNOME Office - AbiWord KOffice a free, integrated office suite by KDE (K Desktop Environment) for and Linux/Unix Gnome desktop environment Window Maker an X11 window manager Classic themes dot org themes dot org PostgreSQL MySQL MySQL dot com PostgreSQL "is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined types and functions. It is the most advanced open-source database available anywhere." Perl programming language Python programming language Ruby programming language HP creates off-the-shelf supercomputer slashdot Ogg Vorbis "fully Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general purpose compressed audio format for high quality" Ogg beats MP3 & The Rest In Listening Test Slashdot| Books |
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (online) (1st Edition January 1999) @amazon: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (O'Reilly Open Source) Free as in Freedom - Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams (2002) Linux Story Online by Andrew Leonard The Cathedral & the Bazaar - Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary Eric S. Raymond @ tuxedo.org @oreilly: The Cathedral & the Bazaar (paperback) - Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond (2nd Ed. 2001) @amazon: The Cathedral and the Bazaar : Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond, Bob Young (2001) Free for All: How LINUX and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans by Peter Wayner (2000) @amazon @amazon: Open Source: The Unauthorized White Papers by Donald K. Rosenberg (2000) @amazon: Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution by Glyn Moody (2001) @amazon: Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig (2000)| Other |
"Information on Microsoft's 'Shared Source' Lincensing" by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer Open Group a vendor and technology-neutral consortium committed to delivering greater business efficiency by bringing together buyers and suppliers of information technology to lower the time, cost and risk associated with integrating new technology across the enterprise.| "The Open Group's Mission is to offer all organizations concerned with open information infrastructures a new forum where we can share knowledge, integrate open initiatives and certify approved products and processes in a manner in a manner in which they continue to trust our impartiality" |
AtheOS AtheOS is a free desktop operating system under the GPL license. AtheOS @Sourceforge AtheOS on Google BeOS Free BeOS About.com on BeOS BeOS software BeOS Mailinglists Linux| #unix UNIX like |
Apple Mac OS X| #unix UNIX based |
XP Microsoft Windows XP The Infrastructure Forum "and corporate IT forum for European Orgainisations" Interix - Running Unix and Linux applications on NT PetrOS by Trumpet Software OS claims to run NT and Windows software off a 100K kernel, not an MS product.Elsewhere off this site: PC News Links Linux BSDI Free BSD Zine Net BSD Open BSD Pico BSD Sun Solaris (commercial, free for non-commercial use)| UNIX History |
Unix History Chart Unix History Graphing Project Computer Languages Chart UNIX History4{~linux OS - Linux Linux for hearts and minds This list does not attempt to be exhaustive. It provides links to sources we have found particularly useful, and to other more comprehensive lists of sources on the subject. Organizations and Interest Groups Pointers Linux Distributions Secure Linux Distributions Linux Encryption Linux Security GUIs, Window Managers and Desktop Environments Shells Journaled and other advanced File Systems Linux Resources including Documentation Linux Software Sites Browsers Editors Office Suites - word processing & spreadsheets Word Processing Spreadsheets Databases Accountancy and Enterprise Management Software Remote Computing Revision Control (Development) Other Software With Windows Fresh Memes in Software Development Linux News Links Scripting and Development Languages Backup & Versioning| Organizations Interest Groups |
Linux International "a non-profit association of groups, corporations and others that work towards the promotion of growth of the Linux operating system and the Linux community. Linux Standard Base "Standardizing the Penguin" of the Free Standards Group The Linux Documentation Project Documents The Linux Documentation Projet Computer Manuals - Linux Linux (a homepage) Linux headquarters LinuxNow! Linux Center and links to Journals and Gazettes Linux UK Linux Org UK Euro Linux Linux Certification Org Linux/ Open Source Channel at Internet dot com Relevant Memes in Linux Software Development| Pointers |
Linux @ Google Linux @ Dmoz Open Source Advocacy @ Google Open Source Advocacy @ Dmoz| Kernel |
Linux Kernel Archives| Linux Distributions |
Linux Distributions DistroWatch Linux Distributions Linux HQ Linux Distributions Linux Online Linux Standard Base "Standardizing the Penguin" of the Free Standards Group Debian GNU/Linux | One of the more difficult distros to install; but such a joy to maintain and update that it more than makes up for this. Developers choice. |
Debian Social Contract Debian Social Contract Debian Documentation Debian FAQ Search Debian Packages Search Debian weekly news Learning Debian GNU/Linux by Bill McCarty 1st Edition September 1999 (full text on-line) 1-56592-705-2, O'Reilly, Order Number: 7052 The Linux Cookbook by Michael Stutz Apt-rpm Questions and Answers OpenOffice in Debian Linux - Gentoo Libranet Debian based commercial distro Libranet Linux - Mandrake Linux - Red Hat Unofficial Red Hat FAQ Linux - Slackware Documentation Linux - SuSE US SourceForge Open Source Project Site hosted by VA Linux Gnu/Savannah Development Projects Yellowdog Linux for Apple PPC & G series & IBM RS/6000 Cygnus - GNUPro Toolkit Linux Kernel Archives IAG Free Standards Group Linux Internationalization Initiative| Secure Linux Distributions - Distributions which default to achieve a secure installation of Linux |
Encrypted FileSystems for Linux NSA - Security Enhanced Linux National Security Agency EnGarde Secure Linux RSBAC - Rule Set Based Access Control for Linux Castle (RSBAC) Immunix SuSE SuSE Security Announcements Linux - Mandrake high security default installation option in Mandrake 7.0 onwards kha0S Linux Bastille Linux EnGarde Secure Linux Security-Enhanced Linux| Linux Encryption |
Linux Encryption Solutions GPG - The GNU Privacy Guard (Open PGP) Project Ägypten (Free Software Sphinx-Clients) for Linux "The Sphinx project launched by German authorities aims to improve secure email exchange... Proprietary products are already on the way, but with the project Ägypten there is now also a Free Software solution going to be realized for popular mail user agents (sphinx-enabling KMail and mutt are essential goals)." The Linux Encryption-HOWTO Homepage Linux Encryption HOWTO by Marc Mutz Encrypting Disks Encrypting your Disks with Linux Doobee. R. Tzeck Encrypting Disks (Linux) HowTo PPDD requires recompiling (patching) the Linux kernel to allow strong encryption and a special device. Good documentation. TCFS involves the running of a daemon which exports an encrypted filesystem as an NFS share. Crypto Kernel Patch a patch for any given Linux kernel to make the loopback device use encryption algorithms.| Security |
Linux Security (.com) comp.os.linux.security FAQ by Daniel Swan Linux Security HOWTO by Kevin Fenzi & Dave Wreski Linux Security Resources Linux Security on Google| Shells |
Bash Bourne again shell, Linux standard Zsh Zsh Zsh Manual Zsh Guide Zsh (SourceForge)| Multiplexing Consoles |
SCREEN - the terminal multiplexer Screen at FSF Twin Twin at FSF| GUIs Windows Managers and Desktop Environments |
Window Managers for X X Window Managers Themes . org Themes E n l i g h t e n m e n t Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) E Enlightenment - it's time to rethink everything Enlightenment themes Fluxbox a minimalistic window manager with tabbing & grouping Fluxbox Blackbox on which Fuxbox is based Gnome desktop environment Ion - Search for a graphical usable interface not for everyone, but my pick KDE (K Desktop Environment) K Develop Sawfish + Window Maker GnuStep Simply GnuStep Classic themes dot org themes dot org UMENU - Universal Menu download| Journaled and other advanced File Systems for Linux |
Ext3fs (Ext2 with metadata journalling (and completely reversible)). JFS Journaled File System Technology for Linux, IBM. Data+metadata journalling ReiserFS Metadata journalling + filesystem in B-trees (enhance access speeds), (uses a hashing algorithm to sort the files). XFS SGI + "A high-performance journaling file system" data+metadata journalling SGI's 64-bit journaled file system, an "SGI crown jewel achievement" Tux2 phase-tree filesystem. by Daniel Phillips.| Linux Resources including Documentation |
LDP - Linux Documentation Project x Linux Open Book Linux Online - About the Linux Operating System Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers Linux from Scratch Installing Linux from scratch "The Ultimate Guide On Linux For Beginners" Linux ProgrammingRecommended text to buy: Running Linux Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer & Lars Kaufman 3rd Edition, 1999 O'Reillysee also the free online: Learning Debian GNU/Linux By Bill McCarty 1st Edition September 1999 (full text on-line) 1-56592-705-2, O'Reilly, Order Number: 7052 Linux Hardware Database Geocrawler Linux e-mails, "Knowledge Archive" New Linux Users Michael Burns (focus on Red Hat) Google Linux Search Google Linux Directory Linux Support Services Linux Links Just Linux portal - a complete guide to the Linux community Generic Linux Links Emuse The Linux Webring Linux on Laptops laptop support by Kenneth E. Harker kharker@cs.utexas.edu Advanced Horizons Linux Page UNIX is a four letter word Christopher C. Taylor Linux Primer Mindspring - Linux Links Linux Lynx Linux Information Page Linux Help Online Linux Start the Linux Support Line and the Linux Newbie Project Linux Newbie Information FAQs The Linux Newbie Administrator Guide LAME - Linux Administration Made Easy by Steve Frampton Linux Newbie Guide Linux Commands Linux FAQ Global Linux Linux World Night Hawk Linux Raw Power Contents Linux Power Org Question and Answer Archives Linux Today Linux Weekly News Linux Journal Linux Lounge - Ziff Davis UK Linux for Business Users - Ziff Davis Linux - Ziff Davis Smart Resallers online Linux - Ziff Davis SlashDot FreshMeat Linux OSonline| Linux Software Sites |
LinuxApps Linux Software Freshmeat Debian a free/open distribution and massive resource| Some Specific Software |
The Gimp by SSC and edited by Michael J. Hammel Samba - file services Gnu SQL OpenLDAP Open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Predawnia chat and Linux resource| Linux Browsers |
Galeon Konqueror Mozilla Netscape Opera Opera for Linux| Viewing PDF |
Acrobat Reader GhostView® & GSview Xpdf| Editors |
VIM (vi improved) not for everyone - but my pick Vim Tips Vim Tips Search Vim New Riders book Vim Cookbook by Steve Oualline Vim Sourceforge Vim Sourceforge Download Vim Documentation Vim Documentation Vim Manual Vim HowTo Vim Help Vim Tips Vim Scripts Vim Messages Gnu Emacs XEmacs Nedit (all purpose editor - programming, web... - for Linux) SciTE Scintilla documentation Bluefish HTML editor Open Source Editors Google Directory Linux Editors Google Directory Code Crusader (code development environment - for UNIX)| Office Suites (integrated - word processors, spreadsheets, databases etc) |
Applix (Linux) Applix Office Applix Linux site Hancom Office KOffice a free, integrated office suite by KDE (K Desktop Environment) for and Linux/Unix KOffice FAQa free, integrated office suite by KDE (K Desktop Environment) Gnome Office OpenOffice Projects OpenOffice| "an Open Source community project building the next generation of office-productivity software. Sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc., and hosted by CollabNet, Inc., OpenOffice.org provides the full infrastructure for global, Open Source community work and growth." |
Star Office Sun StarOffice Sun ThinkFree Office AbiWord seamlessly cross-platform, Open Source Word Processor by AbiSource GNOME Office - AbiWord| Word Processors |
See Office Suites AbiWord seamlessly cross-platform, Open Source Word Processor by AbiSource| Spreadsheets |
See Office Suites GnuMeric KSpread| Databases |
PostgreSQL MySQL MySQL dot com SAP on Linux DB2 for Linux IBM DB2 Linux HowtoSee .html Databases in Data Management, Search Engine Developers and Linux Databases Nola Software "accounting, inventory, point of sale, contact management, billing, purchasing, and reporting all in one integrated package" & with "Rock solid stability" (uses Apache & MySQL) license GPL SQL-Ledger Accounting "a multiuser, double entry, accounting system written in Perl. Data is stored in a SQL server, display and data entry is through a GUI or text based browser." license GPL WyattERP - Enterprise Resource Planning "from contact management to sales/orders, fulfillment to shipping, invoicing to accounting, from vendor management to purchase orders, receiving to inventory, human resources to payroll, in one fully integrated solution." license OPL (Open Public License) mySAP GnuCash (Personal) Accounting Software for Linux Accounting at LinuxLinks| Graphics Editors |
The Gimp The SANE project Scanning software (Linux) VNC - Virtual Network Computing OpenSSH Shorewall Firewall Builder| Windows issues |
Samba - file services Wine "a free replacement of Windows for Unix" Win4Lin NeTraverse "Run Windows out of a box" Plex86 - OS Freedom of Choice! VMware - OS Freedom of Choice!4{~languages Programming - Scripting and Development LanguagesThis list does not attempt to be exhaustive. It provides links to sources we have found particularly useful, and to other more comprehensive lists of sources on the subject. Overviews of Programming Languages - Language Lists & Links Object Oriented Programming Language Lists & Links Ruby Parrot Perl Python PHP Expect Yaml (included here for convenience) Other Languages Books Source Bank Revolution9. Search tool for developers on the Internet containing over 5000 fully searchable and browsable resources to help help software professionals in their development tasks. (announced August 24, 1999)| Overviews of Programming Languages |
DMOZ Programming Languages, Open Directory Project Google Programming Languages Directory Programming Languages Alphabetical listing of programming languages The Language List - CUI 99 Bottles of Beer on Languages "Hello World" in different languages Web Programming Languages| Object Oriented Programming |
Cetus Links on Object Oriented Programming Object Oriented Languages DMOZ Programming Languages, Open Directory Project Google Object-Oriented Programming Languages Directory Google Pure Object-Oriented Programming Languages Directory Google Object-Oriented Scripting Languages Directory Object Oriented Programming FAQ Pragmatic Programmer Toolshed Technologies Andrew Hunt and David Thomas| Ruby |
Ruby Language Home Page by the author of Ruby Matz: Yukihiro Matsumoto| an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming"; "Ruby has the flexibility of Perl, the reliability of Python, and the dynamic OO power of Smalltalk - all in one convenient package" Conrad Schneiker - Ruby the post scripting language; "Ruby is not a Swiss-army chainsaw; More like a Star Trek(tm) replicator" Andy Hunt |
Ruby Talk - (Ruby Newsgroup) Ruby Newsgroup (Google Archive) Ruby Application Archive Ruby FAQ Ruby Central Ruby Central Ruby Garden Ruby Channel Ruby Introduction Programming Ruby (The Book Online) - the Pragmatic Programmer's Guide by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt (the pickaxe book). (Phrogz online version) ~ download interactive version Why's Pignant Guide to Ruby "Why" on What is Shiny and New in Ruby 1.80 Interactive Ruby tutorial RWiki with online Ruby interactive interpreter Book that is to be Original Guide - translated from Japanese Ruby Booklist (home) Ruby Booklist (wiki) Ruby Links (home) Ruby Links (Ruby central) Ruby Links (Dmoz) Ruby Links (google dir) Ruby Links (Cetus) Ruby Application Archive (RAA) Ruby Garden Wiki Ruby Online Cookbook Testimonials| Expect |
Expect Expect Reference| Yaml - Yet Another Markup Language |
Yaml - Yet Another Markup Language (structured data storage/ programming language independent data structures. Improved coding efficiency, little "markup" and simplified parsing, natural programming fit, (unlike XML? well more natural & efficient (in programming (& storage) terms) than XML anyway.)) Yaml list information Yaml wiki Most recent Yaml messages [Yaml core on Geocrawler] Yaml Maiing list Look Ma, No Tags Yaml Article at XML.com Yaml Reference Card Yaml Ain't Markup Language Yaml Spec. Yaml XML Yaml for Ruby Yaml for Ruby Cookbook Yaml for Ruby Documentation Yaml for Ruby Yaml for Ruby SourceForge Yaml.rb RAA entry (Ruby Application Archive) Yaml (oni etc) Toms Lib RubyYamlEmitter| Parrot |
Parrot| Perl |
Perl Language Home Page (Perl is by Larry Wall) Perl FAQ The Perl Institute Perl Language Page Tom Christiansen CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network Enjoy! WAIT - The Great CPAN Search Engine Norbert Gövert & Ulrich Pfeifer. Add WAIT functionality to the CPAN module here. CPAN Search Randy Kobes Perl CPAN modules Sweden Index of /ftp/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/modules/by-category/99 SUNET: Swedish University Network Perl CPAN modules UK. Perl CPAN modules by module Perl Module List by Tim Bunce and Andreas König mirror mirror Perl The cgi-lib.pl Home Page Active Perl Active State - MS partner Perl 4 Manual Perl XML::Parser Perl versus other languages Perl at O'Reilly Perl CD Bookshelf Object Oriented Perl (book) Damian Conway Perl DMOZ Programming Languages, Open Directory Project| PHP |
PHP PHP Manual PHP Builder by Darren Beale PhP Builder PHP Manual PHP Builder PHP Intro CNET Builder PHP (big) Manual by Stig Sæther Bakken, Alexander Aulbach, Egon Schmid, Jim Winstead, Lars Torben Wilson, Rasmus Lerdorf, Zeev Suraski. Editor Stig Sæther Bakken php Tidbits php Wizard . net ThatWare PHP based eZ publish PHP based PHP Nuke PHP / MySQL Tutorial PHP DMOZ Programming Languages, Open Directory Projectalso PHP Groupware PHP Scripts . com PHP Example Scripts Rated scripts PHP Resoruce Index Hotscripts PHP| Python |
Everything Python Author's Home Page Guido van Rossum Zope Content Management Framework (CMF) Zope Zope Enterprise Objects Squishdot Zope based Python - Yahoo Python DMOZ Programming Languages, Open Directory Project| Other Languages |
DMOZ Programming Languages, Open Directory Project| Books |
O'Reilly & Associates Search Amazon4{~versioning.backup Backup & Versioning| Backup |
| Afio and Amanda |
Afio Amanda| Rdiff |
Rdiff-Backup Rdiff-backup Mailing List Archives| Rsync |
Rsync Snapshots Rsync on Slashdot Rsync Documentation (rsync ruby based) Stitch (rsync server side in python based) Duplicity (gpg of rdiff heritage)| Imaging |
PartImage| arch |
Arch/Gnu Arch arch Meets hello-world A Tutorial Introduction to The arch Revision Control System Arch Primer Arch Wiki Tom Lord - Re: version control Tom Lord's Decentralized Revision Control System Slashdot Arch 'RCS' specification, reference implementation, and other implementations and forks of the specification Why arch? Arch Feature Comparisons arch ruby| darcs |
Darcs Darcs/Gnu Darcs Manual| CVS |
CVS Home Page Easing Web Application Development with CVS Documentation - Version Management with CVS cvs manual online CVS Article Linux Journal cvs.rb - CVS library for Ruby. Introduction to CVS| Subversion |
Tigris.org: Open Source Software Engineering Tigris Subversion Suversion status - tigris.org Subversion - Version Control Rethought| BitKeeper (not free - used to maintain the Linux kernel) |
BitKeeper - The Scalable Distributed Software Configuration Management System Slashdot | Linus Tries Out BitKeeper BitKeeper hosted project linux Linus Torvalds: Linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing * Can A Pure Open Source Company Survive? A Critique of the BitKeeper License (icecast-dev) bitkeeper repository moved to cvs] NewsForge | Linux 2.5.4-pre1 - Letter from Linus about 'bitkeeper'| Aegis |
Aegis| Meta-CVS |
Meta-CVS| PRCS |
PRCS| OpenCM |
OpenCM| Syndera |
Synedra| Vestasys |
Vestasys| Perforce |
Perforce Software - The Fast Software Configuration Management System perforce comment by Bitkeeper| Bitkeeper |
BitKeeper| RuBuild |
RE: Setting the Ruby arch ruby Google Groups: "Setting the Ruby" Rubuild Project4{~search.engines Data Management, Search Engine Developers and Linux Databases File Systems and File System Management Data Query and Management Databases ODBMS Web Search Engine Developers Data Warehousing Knowledge Mapping Thought Organisers Information Trackers Placing Databases on the Web - DB, Web Server, Web Presentation Interface| Interoperable |
Samba - file services OpenLDAP Open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.Thor Timpanogas Research Group (TRG) open source, NDS-compliant directory for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Linux.| Journaled and other advanced File Systems for Linux |
Journaled and other advanced File Systems OpenLDAP Open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Gnu SQL| Open Source Projects |
MySQL MySQL dot com SQL language DMOZ Programming Languages, Open Directory Project PostgreSQL "is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined types and functions. It is the most advanced open-source database available anywhere." PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts by Bruce Momjian Interbase Open Source Database the Kylix Project Rapid Application Development for the GNU/Linux Operating System IBPhoenix information services to developers and users of Interbase| Com |
DB2 IBM Informix Oracle Sybase SAP business software| sort |
Object-Oriented DBMSs Object-Oriented Databases: General Information Cetus Links An annotated bibliography on object oriented databases by Frank Stajano Database Systems Object Oriented DBMS by Herng-Jeng Jou Versant Object Store Sun web searches DMoz - Computers: Software: Internet: Servers: Search DMoz - Computers: Internet: Searching: Search Engines Namazu Mogosearch Pure object-oriented Database Management Systems Cetus Object Oriented Links Sysnetics Object Oriented Databases Arthur Allen Gleckler ODBMS Resources A.B. Chaudhri Object Database Management Group Object Design The Object Database Standard Rick Cattellnews://comp.databases.object/ Object Database Newsgroup Object Database vs. Object-Relational Databases Steve McClure IDC Bulletin #14821E - August 1997 Whatever Happened to Obect-Oriented Databases? Object Design Objectivity Jasmine Computer Associates, Inc. Fujitsu Poet Versant Object Technology Osmos Unisys Persistence Live Object Server Ontos Intergrator Neo Logic Matisse Software ADB Gemstone Allegro Store FrantzVendors: GemStone, Object Design, Objectivity, POET, Unidata (O2), Versant. MySQL DevShed Home of the bitbybit.dk MySQL FAQ PHP / MySQL Tutorial MySQL Perl DBI/DBD Manual| Data Warehousing, Backup and Storage |
Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 1999, 1st Annual Conference. Held at the University of Florence, Italy Backup Data Haven claimed to be "the world's most secure colocation facility based on the worlds smallest sovereign territory, the Principality of Sealand" Sealand located in the southern part of the North Sea some six miles off the coast of Britain and from sixty-five to one hundred miles from the coasts of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany; Latitude 51.53 N, Longitude 01.28 E The Data Warehousing Institute Data Warehouse The Data Warehousing Information Center Data Warehousing at Stanford IT Toolbox portal for Data Warehousing Data Warehousing and OLAP a Research-Oriented Bibliography (in progress) by Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases by Jin Li An Introduction to Data Warehousing by V. R. Gupto, Senior Consultant, Systems Services Corporation| Knowledge Management and Mapping |
Cartia Visual information mapping News Maps using Cartia to map "thousands of news articles, press releases and discussions, all mapped by topic onto a visual landscape." Autonomy software to automatically extract the meaning from any piece of text... Hummingbird Dataware| Thought Organisers |
Mind Manager (Windows) The Brain (Windows)| Information Trackers |
Enfish Information Tracker Abuzz| Thesauri |
Controlled vocabularies Resource Guide Page providing links to examples of thesauri and to classification schemes that may be used for controlling database or WWW site subject content. It also provides links to descriptive and critical material about such metainformation. Software for building and editing thesauri Willpower Information Comparison of thesaurus management software for PCs American Society of Indexers Controlled vocabularies Michael Middleton MultiTes Thesaurus Development Software4{~ai.fuzzy Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence & Fuzzy Logic Expert Systems Artificial Intelligence Fuzzy Logic Information & Software Engineering Publications, Institut für Softwaretechnik, Austria Research Projects - Information & Software Engineering, Institut für Softwaretechnik, Austria Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 1999, 10th Annual Conference Held at the University of Florence, Italy Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 1999, 1st Annual Conference. Held at the University of Florence, Italy Information Resources for Computer ScienceArtificial Intelligence Links at ABCentral E.J.Inglis-Arkell 1995-1999 Artificial Intelligence Resources AI on the Web Artificial Intelligence Miningco Artificial Intelligence Semeion Artificial Intelligence Home Page The Complexity & Artificial Life Research Concept for Self-Organizing Systems Complexity Papers Online AI on the Web Russell and Norvig at Berkeley Neural Networks FAQ 1994? Cognitive Systems Group Publications Artificial Intelligence Group Selected Publications Semeion: Research Center of Sciences of Communication Computational Intelligence Bookmarks of Carlos Andrés Reyes Cognitive Systems Group University of Hamburg Artificial Intelligence Lab University of Hamburg Cognitive Systems NewsGroups, List Servers & Mailing Lists Artificial Intelligence Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence Group Selected papers University of Melbourne Minds and Machines Course Related Links Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana Lotfi Zadeh Fuzzy sets and systems Fuzzy researchers personal home pages by Robert Full Links: Fuzzy Logic and Neurofuzzy people prepared by ISIS, Department of Electronics and Computer Sciences, University of Southampton fuzzyTECH Fuzzy Archive by Thread 1999 Fuzzy Archive by Date Fuzzy FAQ Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Expert Systems Interview with Lotfi Zadeh Creator of Fuzzy Logic by Betty Blair 1994 What is Fuzzy Logic? Jyh-Shing Roger Jang forward for book by Lotfi Zadeh Fuzzy Logic Toolbox Lotfi Zadeh on the Fuzzy Logic Toolbox International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (IJUFKS) Introduction to Fuzzy Logic Approximate Reasoning Fuzzy Logic Sources of Information Beverly's Fuzzy Bookshop4{~vnc Virtual Network Computing Virtual Network Computing4{~security.linux Linux Security Linux Linux Security Linux Security FAQ Hack in the Box Net Security Computer Security Information Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Security Focus| Secure Tunnels |
OpenSSH SSH protocol suite of network connectivity tools Linux FreeSWAN build secure tunnels through untrusted networks Stunnel - Universal SSL Wrapper allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL sslwrap sits over any simple TCP service such as POP3, IMAP, SMTP, and encrypts all of the data on the connection using TLS/SSL. VPNC - Virtual Private Network Consortium| Secure Messages |
The GNU Privacy Guard| Vulnerability Assessment/ Security Auditing / Security Scanning |
Nmap open source utility for network exploration or security auditing (stealth port scanning, OS detection) Nessus remote Security Scanner SAINT - Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool Vulnerability Assessment Tool (an updated and enhanced version of SATAN) NetSaint Network Monitor (network administration tool) ngrep Network Grep| Intrusion Detection |
Snort Open Source Intrusion Detection System Snare - System iNtrusion Analysis & Reporting Environment IDS| Proxy Server |
Squid Web Proxy Cache4{~hardware Hardware Reviews CPUs AnandTech hardware tests CPU Review HardOCP JC-News SharkeyExtreme hardware tests AMD AMD Zone Power PC Processor IBMAlpha Compaq Intel Transmeta Crusoe "the smart microprocessor for mobile computing"4{~majors WWW where it began and some Major PlayersMany apologies for any omissions IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force World Wide Web Consortium WWW Home Page - Where the www began at Cern (it appears to be loosing its way though. The www consortium has become an exclusive (expensive membership) powerful vendor interest oriented group that seeks it seems, to morph the web to the end of those interests - rather different from the origins of the www) Overview of the Web Subject Catalogue - WWW Virtual Library "Registered" Servers by Country Catalogue Internet Society Adobe AOL America Online AT&T Murray Hill, N.J. Borland British Telecom Cisco Compaq Corel including WP Dell Hewlett Packard IBM Intel LinuxLucent Macromedia with Shockwave Microsoft Redmond, Washington NetscapeNortel Novell SGI * Sun Microsystems Java & HotJava!4{~shows Computer ShowsComdex http://www.legaltechshow.com/ LegalTec their vendor index Linux Expo4{~security Net Security and Security HackingThis list does not attempt to be exhaustive. It provides links to sources we have found particularly useful, and to other more comprehensive lists of sources on the subject.Also of interest off this site .html Electronic Commerce and Encryption its legal aspects and other associated linksSee separate sections devoted to Electronic Commerce...| Recommended Texts |
| Practical Unix & Internet Security by Simson Garfikel and Gene Spafford 1996 O Reilly 1-56592-148-8 |
| Maximum Linux Security A Hacker's Guide to Protecting your Linux Server and Workstation by Anonymous 2000 SAMS 0-672-31670-6 |
| Security Hacking and knowing about it to prevent it |
CERT Phrack CVE - Security Dictionary of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Mitre Unix Computer Security Security Software "a list of programs used to improve security of computers running a Unix operating system. (A good number of these programs also have non-Unix versions.) " PrivSoft "Privacy Software Corporation is committed to providing the most advanced and comprehensive privacy tools available to Internet users. As privacy and security concerns on the Net evolve in their nature and sophistication, we will be here to provide the tools needed for the future. If you would like to learn more about these issues, please examine our FTC White Paper on privacy and security." Network Security Page including Hacker's Tutorial Computer Security Information AntiOnline - Computer Security The Internet's Information Security Super Center! The AIDE manual (open source security software) by Rami Lehti Tripwire (open source security software) Satan NSClean SuperAnt Security Hacking Software CD for Linux| The Underground (Security Hacking and knowing about it to preventing it) |
Web Fringe Top Sites Top 100 Hackz War Forge Terrorist NetBus Pro NetBus Cult of the Dead Cow Back Orifice WinWhatWhere Attrition Zone Alarm Zone Laboratories free utility designed to protect against spyware, by preventing applications from accessing the Internet without explicit permission. Its main focus is stopping data on the way out. The Haker Quarterly 2600 Hacker's page| Trace |
Visual Route (Windows)4{~views Views of the Information AgeThis list does not attempt to be exhaustive. It provides links to sources we have found particularly useful, and to other more comprehensive lists of sources on the subject. Open Sources - Fresh Memes in Information/Knowledge Sharing (percolation?) US Government Free Document Website "The National Information Infrastructure" National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing Communications NII table of contents G8 The Global Information Society "Europe's way to the Information Society: An Action Plan", Brussels 19.07.94 - follow-up to the Bangemann Report. The Infrastructure Forum "and corporate IT forum for European Orgainisations"4{~information.technology Information Technology Compendium Electronic Commerce Information Technology| Information Technology |
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| Communication _2 Chat, Instant Messaging _2 eMail _2 Fax Software _2 Web Page - Sticky Notes _2 News readers & newsgroups _2 Internet Telephony _2 Remote administration & file transfer |
| WWW Origins FAQs & Guides |
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| Top browsers and servers |
| Standard Character Sets & Protocols _2 TCP/IP _2 MIME _2 LDAP - Lightweight Directory Applications Protocol _2 SOAP _2 Virtual Identities |
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| Scripting and Development Languages _2 Java _2 Perl _2 PHP - Hypertext Pre-Processor _2 Python _2 Ruby _2 Other Languages _2 Object Oriented Programming _2 Book Publishers |
| Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence & Fuzzy Logic _2 Expert Systems _2 Artificial Intelligence _2 Fuzzy Logic |
| OSs _2 Linux _2 Mac OS X _2 Windows XP _2 UNIX |
| OS - Linux _2 Organizations and Interest Groups _2 Linux Distributions _2 Secure Linux Distributions _2 GUIs and Window Managers _2 Linux Resources including Documentation _2 Linux Software Sites |
| Fresh Memes in Information / Knowledge sharing (percolation?) _2 Free Software Foundation _2 Open Source Software _2 Other |
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| WWW where it began and some Major Players |
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