Resources
This is a page dedicated to providing help for the public and our members with Unix and Linux. It is our hope that people can use this page to gain a better understanding of Unix and Linux OSes so that they can pass the information and the joy of using Unix/Linux. This page contains links to useful websites.
Contents
News
http://www.slashdot.org/ Slashdot
- Unix/Linux/technology and anything that is vaguely connected news.
http://www.freshmeat.net/ Freshmeat
- Latest releases of Unix software.
http://lwn.net/ Linux Weekly News
- All sorts of stuff about Linux. Also has a section that is updated daily.
General Pages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Ah Wikipedia
- The world's best free Encyclopedia. A great starting point for finding out about anything.
http://www.google.com.au Google
- Yep obvious I know but still....
http://academicearth.org/ This online resource gives you access to a number of course videos. From Political Science to Anatomy there is a wide range of topics to look at. Of particular note is the Computer Science section.
Help Pages
http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/consult.shtml Really Linux
- A good collection of articles about Linux.
http://tldp.org/ The Linux Documentation Project.
- Lots of HOWTO's on various subjects.
http://www.yolinux.com/ Yo Linux
- A collection of online videos and articles about Linux
Unix Distro Pages
http://opensolaris.org/os/ OpenSolaris
- Sun's Open Distro.
http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD
- For those of us who like a little more bite in their OS
http://www.openbsd.org/ OpenBSD
- Yet another BSD.
http://www.puredarwin.org/ PureDarwin
- Darwin forms the open source code core of Mac OSX.
Linux Distro Pages
http://www.linux.org/ linux.org
- The homepage for the Linux kernel project.
http://www.debian.org/ Debian
- Home of the Debian GNU Linux distribution.
- Home of the Gentoo Linux distribution.
http://www.redhat.com/ RedHat
- Home of the Redhat Linux distribution.
http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora
- Redhat's sister distribution.
http://mandriva.com/ Mandriva
- Home of the Mandriva distribution from France.
http://www.suse.com/ Suse
- Home of the Suse Linux distribution.
http://www.opensuse.org/ OpenSuse
- Suse's sister distribution.
http://www.slackware.org/ Slackware
- Home of the Slackware Linux distribution.
http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu
- Home of the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
Humour
http://www.dilbert.com/ The Dilbert Zone
- Daily comic.
http://www.userfriendly.org/static/ User Friendly the Comic Strip
- Daily comic
http://xkcd.com/ Xkcd
- A very simple comic
Unix Users Groups
- Sydney Linux User's Group.
Misc
http://www.themes.org/ themes.org
- This is where you pick up the latest and greatest themes for your X desktop.
http://www.distributed.net/ Distributed.net
- A group who are committed to proving that current encryption techniques are simply not strong enough. They offer a free client to the public so you can help out individually or as a team.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap
The OpenStreetMap Organisation is dedicated to bringing copyright free maps. Useful for finding where Humbug is and more.
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