Distributions and Distributors

• Red Hat
• Debian
• Slackware
• SuSE linux
• Caldera
• TurboLinux
• Mandrake linux

• Trinux 3-floppy "network diagnostic" version of linux
• Dragon linux is another "tiny linux"

•  The Distributions HowTo

Application software

• The GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) (built with GTK)
•  Netscape Communicator
•  RealAudio player

Information / Documentation

• Linux Documentation Project (see the HOWTOs) (penguin mirror)
• Linux FAQ
•  The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond's article
• www.gnu.org
• distributed.net doesn't have the listing by os anymore.
• Gary's [linux] encyclopedia
• Linux WWW Resources
• Google.com has a special linux search page
•  RedHat 6.0 Source RPMs
• www.infomagic.com (cdroms)
• www.lsl.com Linux System Labs (cdroms)
• The linux web-ring

Desktop possibilities

• Gnome
•  KDE (uses QT toolkit)
• MiningCo's linux desktop page

Also...

• RPM HOWTO (RPM repository at rufus)
• GNUstep HOWTO
• you can buy tech support from www.cygnus.com

• linuxhelp.org home of channel #linux
•  the MP3 mobile
• Tom's Hardware (pc oriented hardware rag)
•  Caldera was going to release OpenDos weren't they? (see also here)
•  www.mklinux.apple.com
•  www.linuxppc.org
• Yellow dog linux (for Macintosh)
•  linux on the DEC Alpha CPU


• FreeBSD
• NetBSD
• OpenBSD
• plan 9 from Bell Labs and docs

Linux:
• Yahoo's linux page
• Linux Documentation Project with HOWTOS
• InfoMagic
• Walnut Creek CDROM
• Yggdrasil
• The Mesa 3-D graphics library
• The Mesa 3-D graphics library (similar to OpenGL)
• you may need to know a bit more about Processors and motherboards, and vendors.

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