Linux Page

This page is a collection of Linux related stuff in a broader sense. This includes the OS proper, but also general tools (like GNU tools) and Linux specific software and wee hacks.

Favourites

My favourite software:

• Emacs Wiki
• Leaftag
• Email: Sylpheed mail client (Sylpheed claws bleeding-edge branch of development, GnuPG, gpgme)
• LUKS home page (Project page on Google)
• Web browser:
  • Seamonkey
  • Firefox releases & downloads
  • Firefox (FTP)
  • Mozilla 1.0, Phoenix,
• Window manager: fvwm
• File browser: thunar (part of xfce)
• SIAG (Project page on Freshmeat) a light-weight office suite
• tovid

Great tools:

• OpenAFS
• Open Office

Distributions

Distributions:

• Linux ISO a collection of distribution images
• Red Hat strand:
  • Red Hat (Mirrors: UK (FTP), UK (FTP))
  • Linux Mandriva (TCS mirror, Mandrake (proxad), Club, Mandrake (Vienna), Cooker (Münster), Cooker (Graz); search RPMs), easy-urpmi
  • Connectiva
  • SuSe (RPM based) (FTP download)
• Debian strand:
  • Debian GNU/Linux (Mirrors: UK (FTP) Austria, Germany (FTP))
  • Stormix (FTP)
  • DemoLinux
• Gentoo Linux (build-from-source, with a BSD-ish package manager)
• ZipHam a tiny Linux distrib, tailored for old PCs (min 4MB memory) and for use as HAM radio server.
• Linux From Scratch. How to build your own Linux distribution.
• RTLinux (Linux for embedded systems).

Distributors:

• LinuxLand DE
• TriSoft DE
• Zaurus Help DE
• Linux Emporium UK
• The Linux Shop UK

Kernel:

• Kernel Archive

Packages of applications:

• Gnome
• Helixcode, an open source software company providing Gnome bundles
• KDE
• SOT, including SOT Office 2002
• OpenOffice
• Lefute, a collection of Linux packages (mainly RPMs)
• PLF, urpmi enabled collection of RPMs
• Fresh RPMs
• Freezer Burn, a collection of packages (mainly Mandrake RPMs)
• XFree86 (UK mirror, Master FTP, UK FTP)

Documentation:

• LinuxDoc
• Linux Anwenderhandbuch (in German)
• Linux Help Guide (mainly for beginners)
• Linux User Support Team (LUST)
• Linux System Administrator's Guide
• Debian Linux User's Guide
• PPP Dialin Docu
• MH & XMH, on-line version of the O'Reilly book
• Linux Device Drivers, on-line version of the O'Reilly book
• Linux Cookbook, learning UNIX by examples (for Beginners)
• Mandrake 10.0 docu

On-line magazines:

• SlashDot
• Freshmeat
• Linux Journal
• Linux Format
• Linux Today
• Linux Zeitung (German) Linux for newbies
• PC! Linux
• IBM's developerworks

Multimedia:

• avidemux
• AVI file
• DivX Resources
• DivX Page
• xine
• mplayer
• VLC media player
• DVD tools for Linux
• mms plugin for xine
• dvd::rip (with a guide to DVD ripping and transcoding with Linux)
• A dvd authoring tutorial (another tutorial)
• Using tovid to create menus etc (tovid simple example)

Security:

• chkrootkit, tool to detect intruders who use rootkits
• Handbook for Comupter Security
• GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) (GPG FAQ, GPG Handbook)
• PGP International (PGP@MIT)
• MIT PGP Public Key Server
• OpenGP Keyserver
• Linux Administrator's Security Guide
• LUKS home page
• Blog on LUKS
• Using Crypto Filesystems under SUSe
• SFS (secure NFS-like filesystem)
• CFS an encrypting filesystem
• EncFS(old page) another encrypting fielsystem
• David Aspinall's Computer Security page (course notes and much more) (local mirror)
• CIAC Computer Incident Advisory Capability (main page on computer viruses etc)
• Info on hoax emails (German)

Networking:

• Apache
• MBone (Video conferencing)
• Gnomemeeting

Monitoring:

• KHealthcare a hardware monitoring tool with KDE interface.
• memtest

Misc stuff (not checked, yet):

• Wine
• PyChart, a python package for different forms of charts
• SIMATH a free computer algebra system
• Version 2.00 of DOC++
• Karma --- A Programmers Toolkit
• DaVinci --- A Graph Visualisation Tool
• teTeX
• LinuxThreads (implementation of Posix threads)
• Moscow ML (an implementation of core SML based on CAML)
• MPEG Player
• SmallEiffel
• ImageMagick
• SAL (Scientific Applications on Linux) (contains info on applications)

Old links (maybe out-of-date):

• META-FAQ
• The Linux Project (maintained by Greg Hankins) (more recent?)
• Main site for HOWTOs
• Main site for FAQs
• Linux Software Maps (LSMs)
• Linux FTP sites:
  • MIT
  • Sunsite
  • Finland
  • Germany
• Red Hat Linux (Linux on Sun Sparcs)
• Linux on PowerPCs
• Man Pages
• Linux Gazette (UK mirrors: York, ???, ???)
• Memory Savers, tips how to save memory under Linux and Linux-Lite a minimal Linux kernel
• Index page on Linux

Zaurus

• Zaurus Forum (USB connection,cross compiling)
• Gentoo for Zaurus (HOWTOs)
• Java on Zaurus Tutorial
• The Kompany
• Zaurus Video Encoding Tutorial
• Misc Video Tutorials for Zaurus
• Pocket Matrix (guides and software for PDAs)
• Zaurus Software
• Killefiz.de (software)
• pdaXrom (Zaurus site with software)
• Ethernet over USB HOWTO (Zaurus)
• Zaurus and CF cards posting
• Opie, OpenSource GUI for Zaurus and other PDAs
• Gentoo for Zaurus

USB Card Readers:

• Using a USB Card Reader in Linux (local copy)

• TriSoft DE
• Zaurus Help DE

Organisations

Global:

• FSF Europe
• FFII, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
• GNU mirror (NL)

User groups

• Munich Linux User Group

Eruopean GNU mirrors:

• Austria
  • ftp.gnu.vbs.at/
  • ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/gnu/
  • gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnusrc/
  • http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnusrc/
• Belgium
  • ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.gnu.org/
  • http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.gnu.org/
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • gnu.blic.net/pub/gnu/
• Czech Republic
  • ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/gnu/
• Denmark
  • ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/gnu/
  • sunsite.dk/mirrors/gnu
  • http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/gnu
• Finland
  • ftp.funet.fi/pub/gnu/prep/ (also mirrors alpha.gnu.org; also available via rsync)
• France
  • ftp.irisa.fr/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.cs.univ-paris8.fr/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/
• Germany
  • ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.cs.uni-bonn.de/pub/unix/gnu/
  • ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/gnu/
  • ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.de.uu.net/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/
  • ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/
  • http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/
  • ftp.stw-bonn.de/pub/mirror/ftp.gnu.org/
  • ftp.math.uni-bremen.de/pub/gnu
  • http://gnu.mirrorspace.org
• Greece
  • ftp.forthnet.gr/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.ntua.gr/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.duth.gr/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/gnu/
• Ireland
  • ftp.esat.net/pub/gnu/ (Internet address 193.120.14.241)
  • ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org
  • http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org
• Italy
  • ftp.gnu.inetcosmos.org/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.digitaltrust.it/pub/gnu
  • ftp://rm.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/gnuftp
  • http://rm.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/gnuftp
• Netherlands
  • ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.mirror.nl/pub/mirror/gnu/
  • ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/gnu/
  • mirror.widexs.nl/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/GNU/
  • http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/GNU/
  • ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/gnu
  • gnu.mirror.vuurwerk.net/pub/GNU/
  • gnu.kookel.org/pub/ftp.gnu.org/
• Norway
  • ftp.uninett.no/pub/gnu/
• Poland
  • ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/gnu/
  • sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.man.poznan.pl/pub/gnu
• Portugal
  • ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/GNU/gnu/
  • ftp.telepac.pt/pub/gnu/
• Russia
  • ftp.chg.ru/pub/gnu/
• Slovenia
  • ftp.arnes.si/software/gnu/
• Spain
  • ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.rediris.es/pub/gnu/
• Sweden
  • ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.isy.liu.se/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.luth.se/pub/unix/gnu/
  • ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/gnu/
  • ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/ (also mirrors /non-gnu/)
• Switzerland
  • ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gnu/
  • http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gnu/
• Turkey
  • ftp.ulak.net.tr/gnu/
• Ukraine
  • ftp://ftp.gnu.org.ua/gnu
• United Kingdom
  • ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/
  • ftp.warwick.ac.uk/pub/gnu/ (Internet address 137.205.192.13)
  • ftp.hands.com/ftp.gnu.org/
  • gnu.teleglobe.net/ftp.gnu.org/