Linux

David's unofficial Linux page. updated 2002-12-26.

Contents:

1. local links
2. Proposed Activities for SLUG
3. Possible Topics for SLUG meetings
4. distributions
5. Midrange links
6. Global links
7. Non-technical applications for Linux
   • Music
   • Other
8. Technical applications for Linux
   • Symbolic Algebra
   • Numeric Math
   • Other
9. Perl
10. Places that sell Linux software
11. programming links
12. GNU and HURD freely redistributable information
13. people who give away their source code
14. distributed processing things to sop up all your otherwise wasted cycles
15. misc

[FIXME: split into several pages: SLUG; Applications; Generic Programming and Development Tips (CVS, etc.); Linux; ... ]

related local pages:

• Linux on Laptops laptop.html#linux
• to_program.html includes
  • Basic Hacking Skills
  • Hacking Challenges
• periodical.html constantly-changing news sources, including periodical.html#linux linux-related news.
• Program Coding Standards and Style Guides c_programming.html#style_guides Both "UI Style Guides" to make programs easier to use, and "Coding Standards" to make source code easier to understand and improve.
• c_programming.html#tools IDEs, literate programming, ...
• Task Help describes how to do many common things under Linux.
• FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) learning.html#fud
• emulation idea_space.html#emulation how to make HP48, Windows, Atari, etc. software run under Linux or other boxes.
• computer_architecture.html#compiler compiler quotes; optimization tips.
• Some of my favorite comics eye_candy.html#comics have a lot of technical humor (User Friendly, etc.)
• to_program.html which is sort of a todo file dedicated to software that hasn't been written (yet).
• c_programming.html the C programming language (plus a few links to C++ programming, and programming in general)
• Places that keep Linux (and other) software online: search_tools.html#software
• video_game.html mentions some of the games that run under Linux, as well as resources for building new games.
• Pointers to Software book recommendation lists
• computer_architecture.html#os has some Linux-derived real-time operating systems (RTOS) and other interesting OS concepts.
• some Fortan-to-C information idea_space.html#f2c
• computer_graphics_tools.html

local links

• Stillwater Linux Users Group Official Information Resource http://www.slug.okstate.edu/
• http://www.linux.org/users/groups/usa/oklahoma.html

  See Official SLUG schedule

  See Official SLUG tasklist

• David Cary http://www.ionet.net/~caryd_osu/
• Job Search Presentations http://home.okstate.edu/okstate/stusvc/up/home.nsf/pages/88616A8042A98B158625662700529DD3?OpenDocument "A series of presentations are offered every semester. Groups and student organizations are encouraged to request presentations."
• ``Recipe for a Successful Linux User Group'' by Rick Moen Last revised: 2002-10-04 http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/essays/newlug.html [FIXME: finish reading] [FIXME: do these things to make SLUG sucessful]

Proposed Activities for SLUG

• The Beowulf Project http://www.beowulf.org/ (supported by the AlinkA clustering mailing list http://www.alinka.com/ )
• the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
• Festival Text-to-speech for Linux http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
• NetDay Oklahoma http://www.netday.org (1-800-55-NET96)
  Judy the Rat http://www.judyrat.com/ was, according to legend, involved in NetDay 1998 http://www.netday96.com/
  "more than 13 300 volunteers worked to hook almost half of California's schools up to the Internet during a long day of crawling around and pulling wire. The ambitious project, NetDay 96, was paid for entirely by donations. The project was inspired by President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, who came to California in September [1995] and called for a "high-tech barn raising" to wire the state's schools. Michael Kaufman of KQED ... and John Gage, a scientist at Sun Microsystems ... set up a World Wide Web site telling volunteers how to sign up and showing, by way of a color-coded map, exactly which schools need help. ... the project is like getting 100 million textbooks for free, Gage said. "It lets a Spanish teacher go to Venezuela and incorporate the daily newspaper there into the lesson plan," he said." -- April or March 1996
• IRC channel dedicated to SLUG
  If you do start a SLUG IRC channel, I think it might be a good idea to log the discussions. Then make the good parts available to those who couldn't be there in real time (or who prefer the asynchronous mode). (email ? web posting ?)

  >Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:03:48 -0500
  >From: Tobin Yocham 
  >Subject: slug stuffs.. :)
  >...
  >would you be interested in starting an irc channel for our group?
  ...
  >I currently run a channel on EFnet called #watchtower.
  ...
  >let me know what net and the #channelname and i'll help out as much
  >as possible.
  

• IRC training session
  Perhaps SLUG should sponsor a event where we tell people about Internet Relay Chat, give them a little bit of netiquette and a list of interesting channels, and demonstrate / interact / practice for a few minutes. This shouldn't take more than 30 minutes, right ?

Possible Topics for SLUG meetings

• electronic CAD SW that runs under Linux (SPICE, PCB layout, etc) schematic.html
• 3D CAD SW that runs under Linux task_help.html#cad
• distributed computing projects.
• Simple shell commands (the pipe, the redirect, "grep", "locate", "man", "info", etc.)
• Simple Unix utilities: ping, telnet, Netscape
• Emacs
• vi
• "What were the last 3 apps you installed ?" round-robin discussion of the good and the bad.
• Linux in embedded systems. http://linux-embedded.com/

distributions

Some of the more popular flavors of Linux.

[FIXME: don't some things in computer_architecture.html belong here ?]

Not in any particular order:

• Debian/GNU Linux http://www.debian.org " ... the maintainable operating system. Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?"
• Knoppix http://www.knoppix.net/ "Knoppix is a GNU/Linux distribution that boots [and] runs completely from cd. It includes recent linux software and desktop environments, with programs such as OpenOffice.org, Abiword, The Gimp, Konqueror, Mozilla, and hundreds more quality open source programs."
• [linux distributions] http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/30/0223236&mode=thread review: ``Comparison: Red Hat 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0'' - By Jeff Field - 2001-05-02
• http://tiny.seul.org/ a small Linux distribution designed especially for reusing old computers.
• http://gentoo.org/ ``Gentoo Linux is a high-performance ports-based Linux metadistribution for x86, PowerPC, UltraSparc and Alpha Processor systems.'' ... ``Gentoo PPC Linux 1.2 ... This new boot CD will boot any New World Macs.''
• http://www.suse.com/
• Linux on Apples http://www.mklinux.apple.com/
• Red Hat Advanced Development Labs (RHAD Labs) group to work on problems of usability of the Linux operating system. http://www.labs.redhat.com/ .
• Stampede http://www.stampede.org/ is another possible distribution of linux
• FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/, like Linux, is available free of charge and comes with full source code.
• ``BearOps(R) Linux Desktop OS self-installs with only 3 mouse-clicks.'' http://bearops.com/ also sells ``BearOps(R) Handheld Linx - Connecting PalmOS to Linux''

Midrange links

• Tulsa local.html#tulsa
  • Tulsa Linux SIG http://tulsa.sourceforge.net/ (excited about POV-RAY)
  • Tulsa Computer Society (TCS) http://tcs.org/
• Paranoia http://www.paranoia.com/ , in Austin, TX, has a spiffy Linux logo; and the motto "vincit omnia veritas --- truth conquers all things!".
• Control-Escape http://www.control-escape.com/ "designed to be accessible to the novice, the new and prospective user, as well as the power user."

Global links

(How can I further categorize these links ?)

• http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ [FIXME:]
• MOTHER'S DAY MEDITATIONS FROM THE COMPUTER ROOM. by Kenneth Mayer <mayerk at eniac.seas.upenn.edu> http://www.cs.utah.edu/~ratan/humor/mother.txt most of my training in fundamental computer concepts came from my mother.

• For questions that are NOT tomsrtbt specific, see: http://linuxdoc.org/ and http://www.geek-girl.com/unix.html and http://www.ugu.com/

  -- Tom Oehser http://www.toms.net/rb/
• Unix Basics http://www.infotech2.siu.edu/campusys/compute2/use.html [FIXME: should SLUG develop an updated version of this document ?]
• http://portico.org/ jillions of terse little Linux tips, and a way of quickly searching them.
• http://www.linuxdoc.org/ has many HOWTOs.
• Linux Myth Dispeller http://www.eruditum.org/linux/myths/myth-dispeller.html by Jon Tillman
• The Open Source Page http://www.OpenSource.org/ has several articles reccommending Open Source, from several points of view.
• the Happy Hacker http://happyhacker.org/ | mirror http://techbroker.com/ /* was http://www.techbroker.com/happyhac.htm */ Dedicated to good, old-fashioned harmless hacking. [FIXME: to read]
• The Linux Kernel Archives http://www.kernel.org/
• http://www.solaris.rpm.org
• Official GNU web page http://www.gnu.org/ | mirror http://www.fsf.org/
• The League for Programming Freedom (LPF) http://www.lpf.org/
• http://www.Xfree86.org
• The UNIX-HATERS Handbook http://www.research.microsoft.com/~daniel/unix-haters.html also mirrored at http://catalog.com/hopkins/unix-haters/handbook.html and at http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/unix/uh/ and there is a copy you can check out of the OSU library. see spin_dictionary.html#unix_philosophy
• http://www.linux.org
• Linux Documentation Project http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/mirrors/LDP/ (is this really the closest mirror of the master page http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ ?) "really good resource of info on Linux"
• User Guide Dog project "good basic info" http://www.geocities.com/~csh/docs/dog
• "My name is Don Hopkins, and I'm a hacker." (Playing with real time Cellular Automata; a PostScript interpreter written in Postscript (The Metacircular PostScript Interpreter); http://catalog.com/hopkins/art/
• http://www.linuxnow.com/
• http://www.linuxhq.org !! has this gone offline ??
• http://www.linux.org/

anti-hackers

• AntiOnline http://www.antionline.com/ the anti-hacker page

applications

see serialportdocs.html#midi for some musical applications.

see Task Help for many other technical and non-technical applications.

Tech

Technical applications for Linux

see also mathematical optimization task_help.html#mathematical_optimization .

Symbolic Algebra

(symbolic math)

• http://dir.lycos.com/Science/Math/Algebra/Software/ has a long list (but not all of them run under Linux)
• MuPAD - a Computer Algebra System http://www.mupad.de/
• GMP «Arithmetic without limitations» http://swox.com/gmp/ (has online interactive demo !) "GMP is a free (LGPL) library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is no limit to the precision except ... available memory ... GMP has a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface. GMP is designed to be as fast as possible, both for small operands and for huge operands." /* was http://www.matematik.su.se/~tege/gmp/ */
• If you want to learn about writing your own bignums package, look at the algorithms in _The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: SemiNumerical Algorithms_ by Donald Knuth.
• I've heard that George Barwood has released source code for a C++ class (vlong). Vlong is as the name implies a Very long integer. (any URL ?)
• freelip (any URL ?)

Numeric Math

• R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project http://www.r-project.org/
• "NLREG is a powerful statistical analysis program that performs linear and nonlinear regression analysis, surface and curve fitting." http://www.nlreg.com/ [FIXME: link to #curve_fitting]
• Learning to Use Octave http://www.math.byu.edu/~mike/Math343/html/Labs/Lab1/octave.html
• GNU Octave http://www.octave.org/ /* was http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/ */
• ``The Matrix Template Library: A Unifying Framework for Numerical Linear Algebra'' (1998) article by Jeremy G. Siek, Andrew Lumsdaine. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/171850.html
• recent beta releases of Octave ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/test-releases/
• Help for Octave Matrix Numeric Tools and also MatLab Matrix Laboratory Links http://www.math.uic.edu/~hanson/mcs471octave.html
• http://www.mathtools.com/free.html has links to Free Matlab Toolboxes Octave, a free Matlab-Like Interpreter Numerical C Functions
• Free Matlab-like Programs http://tyche.mat.univie.ac.at/~rauth/matnews/free.matlab.clones.html
• Netlib is a collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases. It appears to have many mirrors, including http://www.netlib.org/ and also http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/
• Lucent Technologies, Computing and Mathematical Sciences Research Division http://netlib.bell-labs.com/ (Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill )

Other technical apps

see task_help.html for spreadsheets and other office applications

• SAL (Scientific Applications on Linux) http://sal.kachinatech.com/ includes

  Octave http://sal.kachinatech.com/A/2/OCTAVE.html

  Software related to electrical engineering http://sal.kachinatech.com/Z/1/ -- circuit layout/design tools, circuit simulator, , etc.

Perl

For questions about perl, consult comp.lang.perl.

• Take 10 Minutes to Learn(TM) - PERL http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7331/ten_perl.html
• TinyWiki, the PerlDesignPatterns repository http://perldesignpatterns.com/ [FIXME: #wiki]
• http://www.nyetwork.org/wiki/Perl ... http://www.nyetwork.org/wiki/PerlIntro [#wiki]
• ``USING PERL IN EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT'' article by Liu Kai http://www.chipcenter.com/circuitcellar/march01/c0301lk1.htm [FIXME: read]
• http://perlmonks.org/
• http://www.perl.com/
• http://www.perl.org
• http://language.perl.com/
• the Phoenix Perl Monger Group http://phoenix.pm.org/ [#wiki]
• ePerl (embedded Perl); used by SEUL. http://www.engelschall.com/sw/eperl/

• "I have been converted into perl. It slices, dices, make gif files (I do that at the office), does cgi, TK and can be object oriented. If you know dos .bat scripts, you can know perl. If you are thinking of one language to learn. learn perl." -- recc. Matthew Hirsch Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 15:56:55 -0500 (est) To: seul-project at seul.org

Places that sell Linux software

• http://www.caldera.com/
• VA Research: a UMAX affiliate sells Alpha workstations, Pentium laptops, pre-installed with Linux. http://www.varesearch.com
• "Linux Pro" http://www.linuxmall.com

GNU and HURD

• unofficial GNU web page
• Official GNU web page (UCLA)
• Official GNU web page (?)
• Official GNU web page (MIT)
• Unofficial GNU Hurd FAQ
• unofficial Hurd web page
• GNU Info Tree [mit.edu]
• GNU Info Tree [ohio-state.edu]
• Gnu Info Tree [utah.edu]
• FSF
• The League for Programming Freedom (LPF)
• Peter Seebach http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/ "Will work for interesting hardware." /* was Peter Seebach, Unix/C Wizard http://www.solon.com/~seebs */
• GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.7

  Subject: GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.7 released
  From:  (Tudor Hulubei)
  Newsgroups: gnu.announce,gnu.utils.bug,comp.os.linux.misc
  Date: 18 Jul 1995 13:31:48 -0500
  
  ...
      The new version of GNU Interactive Tools is available at pub.pub.ro in
  the directory /pub/git as git-4.3.7.tar.gz.  It will probably become
  available at prep.ai.mit.edu, sunsite.unc.edu, tsx-11.mit.edu and
  ftp.funet.fi.  Please send bug reports
  ...
  Enjoy,
  Tudor
  

The easiest way to get
GNU software is to copy it from someone else who has it.
.....a commercial distributor of free software....
Our main FTP host is very busy & limits the number of FTP logins.  Please use
one of these other TCP/IP Internet sites that also provide GNU software via
anonymous FTP
For more
details & additional hosts, get the files `/pub/gnu/GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE' and
`/pub/gnu/GNUinfo/FTP'.

Freely redistributable information isn't just software.	 We have a list of
groups providing various books, historical documents, and more.	 You can FTP
the list in file `/pub/gnu/FreelyAvailableTexts'.

GNU ftp sites in the USA:

• ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/gnu
• ftp://labrea.stanford.edu
• ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/gnu
• ftp://ftp.kpc.com/pub/mirror/gnu
• ftp://f.ms.uky.edu/pub3/gnu
• ftp://jaguar.utah.edu/gnustuff
• ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/gnu
• ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/archives/gnu/prep
• ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU
• ftp://ftp.uu.net/systems/gnu how to order GNU software

people who give away their source code

Eric Steven Raymond
• http://www.ccil.org/~esr/ IEEE Computer Society Interviews Eric Raymond http://computer.org/software/ ("the Halloween documents") Fascinating web pages; lots of free source code (some of it actually useful).
  How To Become A Hacker by Eric S. Raymond http://sagan.earthspace.net/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html Is this a mirror of the other ~esr/ ?
• Judson D. McClendon http://personal.bhm.bellsouth.net/bhm/j/u/judmc/
• http://arachnoid.com/ Nice Java gravity simulator, tabs in Java, Java World Clock, interesting essay on computer math, Paul Lutus... His best-known program was "Apple Writer," an early word processor.

distributed processing

distributed processing / distributed computing

things to sop up all your otherwise wasted idle cycles

• http://intel.com/cure/ volunteer your computer for distributed computing ``The Intel® Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program ... to make unprecedented amounts of processing power available to medical researchers, thus accelerating the development of treatments and drugs with the potential to cure diseases. ''
• Genome@home http://genomeathome.stanford.edu/
• http://engineeredintelligence.com/

  CxC(TM) is the simple parallel language for engineers and scientists to create, prototype and run scientific algorithms on a PC or laptop (running Windows/Linux). The unchanged executable also runs on supercomputers or supercomputing clusters with linear speedup and unlimited scalability (running LINUX and selected UNIX platforms). Application areas include: cellular automata, artificial neural networks, fluid dynamics, particle dynamics and other numerical applications.

  [FIXME: link to computer_architecture.html#cellular_automata ] The "grid wars" contest they sponsor http://gridwars.com/ looks very similar to Core Wars. [FIXME: link to Core Wars]

• Folderal http://www.folderal.org/ study how proteins "fold" into proteins [FIXME: dead link ?]
• "Is it better to turn off your computer at night, or let it run all the time?" http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=554411 lists
  • distributed.net http://distributed.net/
  • Free-DC is a group of people participating in various Distributed Computing projects together. http://www.free-dc.org/ has a long list of distributed computing projects (like this list); also has a nice forum for talking about the various distributed computing projects.
  • United Devices http://ud.com/ (http://www.grid.org/)
  • SETI@home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
  • GIMPS http://www.mersenne.org/
  • Folding@home http://foldingathome.stanford.edu/ | mirror http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/
  • Freenet http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
• Distributed Proofreaders book.html#distributed_proofreaders (Unlike other distributed computing projects, this one relies on actual humans to do "pages" of work).
• Idlepower.net http://www.idlepower.net/ This is different from projects like PiHex, GIMPS, and distributed.net in that those projects attack 'embarassingly parallel' problems -- problems which split up easily into smaller pieces. Those are examples of distributed computing; idlepower.net will be an example of distributed supercomputing. One disadvantage of distributed supercomputing is that it is bandwidth-hungry. It will not be possible to participate unless you have a computer with a fast (cable, ADSL, etc.) internet connection. -- Colin Percival
• Folding@home http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/cosm study how proteins "fold" into proteins.

  Folding@home Scientists Report First Distributed Computing Success http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/10/021022070813.htm

• look for similarities in genetic sequences http://www.ud.com/
• Distributed Computing and the Human Genome Project http://slhttp://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/11/22/227212.shtmlashdot.org/askslashdot/99/11/22/227212.shtml
• SETI@home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ has software to help the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The SETI Institute http://www.seti-inst.edu/ .
• the Java Market http://www.cnds.jhu.edu/projects/metacomputing/java-market/ "It is very simple for *anyone* with an Internet-connected machine to make its computational resources available to the Market; and It is very simple for *anyone* with an Internet-connected machine to use the Market's computational resources."
• the Metacomputing project http://www.cnds.jhu.edu/research/metacomputing/ includes "The Backhand project allows efficient resource management in a cluster of web servers." and has links to related sites.
• the Open Content Network and the "Content-Addressable Web" http://www.open-content.net/
• DAV: I was checking out Dr. Dobb's Journal http://www.ddj.com/ today (2003-01-14), and it had this short blurb: Neo Project Continues The effort to crack Microsoft's Xbox encryption key is going strong, say organizers of the Neo Project. http://www.ddj.com/news/fullstory.cgi?id=6634 http://www.theneoproject.com/ .
• [OS] BRiX is a free portable protected memory-space preemptive multi-threading multi-user persistent object-oriented high-speed easy-to-use distributed computing environment. http://www.qzx.com/brix/
• http://www.hewgill.com/ Distributed Computing information (mostly on prime numbers).
• The Harness project http://www.epm.ornl.gov/harness/ is focused on developing ... a heterogeneous distributed computing environment.
• Parallel Computing and Paramid Documents. http://www.astro.cf.ac.uk/computing/parallel/
• the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project http://www.mersenne.org More information on prime numbers ("primes") http://ideosphere.com/fx-bin/Claim?claim=Prim
• "distributed.net - a clearing house for all things distributed. " http://distributed.net/

TeX

TeX is the standard way of typesetting mathematical equations.

see also:

• computer_graphics_tools.html#fonts for fonts. .

TeX links:

• "a not so short introduction to LaTeX ... in 17 languages" http://ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/
• "templates ... for ... LaTeX ...[and] for other word processing software." http://sims.berkeley.edu/~christin/templates.shtml
• "The not so short introduction to LaTeX2e" http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/lshort/
• "The amsmath package is an extension package for LaTeX that provides additional features to facilitate writing math formulas and to improve the typographical quality of the output." created by the American Mathematical Society http://www.ams.org/tex/amsmath.html
• "amsthm ... the package to help make the layout of theorems, corollaries, lemmas, etc. easier to do." created by the American Mathematical Society http://www.ams.org/tex/amslatex.html
• "TeX is freely distributable. It is written in a dialect of Pascal called WEB and can be compiled either in Pascal or (by using a conversion program that comes with the TeX distribution) in C."
• Math in HTML
  • How to type complex mathematical equations in ASCII computer_graphics_tools.html#typing_math
  • Math in HTML (and CSS) by Jukka "Yucca" Korpela. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/math/

    For multiplication, there is seldom any reason to use the asterisk *, e.g. a*b (it's a programming language idiosyncracy), since you can use the multiplication sign, e.g. a×b or perhaps the middle dot, e.g. a·b. When referring to vector operations, you could use × for a cross product and · for a dot product, of course; perhaps in such a context you might find some use for * too, to distinguish scalar and vector operations, but that would require an explanation in a legend. For fractions and division, the solidus (slash) character / is commonly used, ...

  • W3C Math Home http://www.w3.org/Math/

  TeX can nicely typeset just about any mathematical equation, but not many people (yet) have the appropriate software to view TeX source. HTML has its limitations, but far more people have a web browser to view it. ASCII is even more restrictive, but it works on just about every computer, even ones without a web browser.

  I've heard that blind users prefer TeX.

• The L^ATEX2HTML Translator http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/files/programs/unix/latex2html/manual/ The LATEX2HTML Translator
• techexplorer http://www.software.ibm.com/techexplorer/ | http://www.ics.raleigh.ibm.com/ics/techexp.htm techexplorer is a plug-in for Netscape Navigator that dynamically formats scientific and mathematical notations written in TeX, LaTeX, and MathML mark-up languages in Web documents. techexplorer Hypermedia Browser runs on AIX, Linux, SGI IRIX, Sun Solaris, Windows 95/98, Windows NT. techexplorer supports a large subset of TeX and LaTeX markup. It also supports hypertext, multimedia, pop-up menus, and other document extensions ... techexplorer documents can link to other Web documents, even if they are not techexplorer documents. Once installed, techexplorer auto-registers with Navigator to handle Web documents with file extensions .tex or .tcx., or with MIME type application/x-tex or application/x-techexplorer. ( was http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/formula/techexplorer )
• TeXML http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/formula.nsf/xmltechnology/TeXML is apparently a way of converting XML documents to TeX for printing.
• the Omega Project http://www.ens.fr/omega/ extends TeX to including Unicode (not only Roman letters, but Arabic, Chinese, etc.) The fonts OmegaSerif and OmegaSans were designed for it.
• "LyX, the Document Processor" http://la1ad.uio.no/lyx/ a "almost-WYSIWYG" word processor based on LaTeX "Of course you can also still do some low-level formatting for fine-tuning. However, the proper way with LyX is to tell the computer what the text is, not what it should look like. So, we like to say that LyX gives you WYSIWYM editing [What You See Is What You Mean]. "
• The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/ "the most complete, up-to-date TeX-related software possible."
• All About LaTeX2HTML http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/tex2html/doc/latex2html/latex2html.html
• Mathematics on the Web: The MINSE Project http://www.lfw.org/math/ a Medium-Independent Notation for Structured Expressions (claims to be better than LaTeX for documents to be put on the web)

programming links

• version control system: CVS... task_help.html#version_control
• Futurist Programming Manifesto future_history.html#programming
• Willows Software: http://www.willows.com/ produces TWIN, a libarary which allows Windows(R) applications to run on UNIX, Mac, and other systems. (recompiling with this library makes the application use X Window rather than MS Windows). Free software under the GPL.

• From: Sergey Nikitin 
  Date: Thu, 25 Sep 97 16:56:33 MST
  Subject: another Linux JDK port
  
  Dear Everyone:
  
  Linux port of JDK1.1.2 (java dev. kit)
  is available at
  
  
  ftp://lagrange.la.asu.edu/pub/Linux_jdk
  
  user: anonymous
  Passwd: your e-mail
  
  Please let me know if you encounter any problems or
  find a bug. I will support JDK on Linux platform for
  a while. JDK1.1.4 will follow shortly as soon as I have
  license from Sun Microsystems.
  
  With best
  +++++++++++++++++++++,
  Sergey
  

misc

(I need to move these up to the appropriate category ...)

• the OpenMac projects:
  • MkLinux : Linux for Power Macintosh http://www.mklinux.apple.com/
  • MacBSD for 68K Macs http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k
• Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/
• the Linux Counter page http://counter.li.org

EMACS: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift :o)

pro-Linux the arachnid mail list pro-Linux http://www.marky.com

Want a Windows emulator for Linux? Visit Caldera's website: www.caldera.com

If you're going to learn Objective-C, Miguel de Icaza http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1998-January/0967.html and Gregg Williams http://devworld.apple.com/mkt/informed/appledirections/oct97/doc.html recommends downloading _Object-Oriented Programming and the Objective-C Language_ little pages of html: http://devworld.apple.com/techinfo/techdocs/rhapsody/ObjectiveC/ all-at-once download: http://devworld.apple.com/cgi-bin/rhapsody_docs.pl?

free dos-clone under GPL, although still in beta (0.92.0), http://www.freedos.org,

Project Magic- Opera web browser for OS/2, Mac, X11 http://www.operasoftware.com/

Ways to liscence your software. Nice discussion of alternatives to GPL; GPL is one of the *less* desirable alternatives. http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/LICENSES/theory.html

http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson/ Fascinating. A Quaker Programmer. Has a well-articulated argument for making source code freely available.

linux | programming | languages "visual language design", "visual languages" "LabView is a visual language; DV-Centro is a language for specifying a visual language. ... Designing a visual language isn't anywhere near as visual as using, say, LabView. ... I think you'll find DV-Centro to be an expensive tool that's not really intended for personal use. ... intended for ... developing a commercial product." Dataviews sells DV-Centro http://www.dvcorp.com/

figurine is yet another Unix configuration system http://www.foxnet.net/~apenwarr/figurine/

Caldera Open Administration System project http://www.caldera.com/coas/

Techniques of Oppression http://www.uniblab.com/collie/malefinal.html

Linux-USB! http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/USB.html

O'Reilly & Associates http://www.ora.com/ http://www.oreilly.com/ Publishes famous books on Perl, Linux, and WindowsNT.

Free Software Union http://www.fslu.org/

Tutorial for using procmail http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/procmail/

Microway(r) http://www.microway.com/ sells 600 MHz Alpha machines and NDP Fortran. (both of which apparently support both Linux and WindowsNT).

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Tom Wu http://tjwhost.stanford.edu/adventure/project.html the Colossal Cave ported to a web-based CGI. Runs on Linux.

The site at http://www.mnemonic.org is aimed at users.
The site at http://www.mnemonic.browser.org (that leads to http://oloon.student.utwente.nl/~mnemonic) is the site for developers.

The GNU-Win32 tools http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ are Win32 ports of the popular GNU development tools for Windows NT and 95. "the GNU-Win32 project"

"More Than Money" http://world.std.com/~colinst/ essays on volunteering.

"Deep Hack Mode" http://www.clark.net/pub/srokicki/linux/hacking.html seems to have good Perl pointers.

Linux Journal http://www.ssc.com/linux

http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/gw?a=page&p=Prescript PostScript to text converters and PostScript to HTML converters -- -- useful for extracting text to build search engines. [move this to html.html ?]

Moof! in Mind, it's an attitude! Meet the Dogcow and Learn the Truth about Moof! http://www.storybytes.com/moof.html a symbol of all that's fun, cool and creative on a computer.

The AppleJedi http://www.saracen.com/ajp1.html love their MacOS just as much as Linux lovers love Linux.

Many Perl http://www.frii.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jholder/jopse-y.cgi pointers (and a pointer to Prolog).

serious communication from Kevin Mitnick http://mitnick.com/

http://www.KevinMitnick.com/

FATMAC http://fatmac.ee.cornell.edu/ Doing cool things with "surplus" equipment.

Ralph Nader sent a letter to IBM Chairman Lou Gerstner suggesting he make the OS/2 source code public http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_display/0,3440,2110597,00.html.

Free Java and C++ design tool for Linux http://slashdot.org/articles/980810/017205.shtml

The University of Maryland Linux Users' Group http://www.umlug.umd.edu/

JavaScript Documentation http://developer.netscape.com/tech/javascript/index.html?content=/docs/manuals/javascript.html

Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS) http://math.nist.gov/

Read or Download the Single UNIX Specification http://www.unix-systems.org/online.html

http://www.codeguru.com/jokes/ programming humor.

"Computer System Disables Hackers" http://www.abqjournal.com/scitech/1sci5-3.htm

[programming in general] The Tao of Programming http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/KeelyNet/humor/tao.asc

http://linuxresources.com/linux/

Read this: AUTHOR(S) :Dowd, Kevin 1959- TITLE :High performance computing IMPRINT :Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly & Associates, c1993 SERIES :A nutshell handbook second edition http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hpc2/ -- recc. Daniel Barker Date: 1998/08/16 Forums: comp.lang.c.moderated

Gtk+ Layout Engine http://www.softhome.net/pub/users/timj/gle/

http://www.jclark.com/ source code to a SGML parser.

http://www.lantimes.com/98/98aug/808b001a.html?st.ne.fd.mnaw

Wp2Html, a program to convert Word Perfect files to HTML files http://www.res.bbsrc.ac.uk/wp2html/

"Delorie software: Making it harder to hate computers." includes DJGPP, a free 32-bit development system for DOS (a port of GCC and many other useful GNU tools) http://www.delorie.com/

http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/doc/repository.html#fancy ???

The famous CYC artificial intelligence project http://www.cyc.com

The Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ejs/gnksa/ proposed standards a Usenet news program should meet to deserve the "Good Net-Keeping Seal". (this draws a line and says "news programs should be at least as good as 'rn' before you even think about releasing them.") If your news software can't do all this, be advised that better software exists.

Emacs- The Extensible, Customizable Self-Documenting Display Editor, ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/classic-hits/AIM-519A.ps AI Memo 519a, Richard M. Stallman (1981). (Surely more up-to-date documentation exists somewhere ...)

http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/ has some interesting reasearch going on -- "Natural Language Processing ", "Telepresence", "User Interfaces", "Advanced Programming Languages", "3D graphics and animation", among others.

unsorted

Tasty Bits from the Technology Front (TBTF) http://www.tbtf.com/

Unix Guru Universe http://www.ugu.com/ The Official Home Page for Unix System Administrators. Has a nice "Unix Beginners" section.

"Is Schrödinger's Cat Object-Oriented? " By Adolfo M. Nemirovsky http://www.ibm.com/java/education/oocat/quantum-oo.html (C++ for Physicists)

Porting C++ to Java by Mark Davis http://www.ibm.com/java/education/portingc/ (Java for C++ programmers)

Pointers to Java book reviews on the net http://www.ibm.com/java/education/portingc/References.html

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide http://online-books.ora.com/books/webref/jscript/

Linux NOW! http://linuxnow.com/ "The Most Complete Linux Reference"

Computer Game Developers Conference http://www.cgdc.com/

Newfire, Inc. http://www.newfire.com/ sells the $1 995 "Catalyst" integrated game development environment ... Web- or CD-based games ... supports Java, C, C++, and VRML game development ...

Visual J++ http://www.microsoft.com/visualj

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC) (ISSN 1045-926X) http://www.hbuk.co.uk/ap/journals/vl/

Object-Orientation for Software Modellers http://www.access.digex.net/~ell/

Linux Gazette http://www.programmers.net/mirrors/lg/issue17/issue17.html

http://www.be.com/

??? http://www.32bit.com/

"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson

"I Hate Computers" (IH8PCs) http://extlab1.entnem.ufl.edu/IH8PCs/

Hacking Reference http://netsecurity.miningco.com/msub2.htm includes "Hackers: Threat or Menace?" and "Carolyn Meinel-Interview A ZDNet interview with the founder of "The Happy Hacker"."

GLUE (Groups of Linux Users Everywhere) http://www.ssc.com/glue/

http://www.linuxresources.com/ ???

The C++ Matrix class library page http://home1.gte.net/edwin2/Matrix/

Blitz++ http://seurat.uwaterloo.ca/blitz/ "a C++ class library for scientific computing which provides performance on par with Fortran 77/90. It uses template techniques to achieve high performance. The current versions provide dense arrays and vectors, and small vectors and matrices. Blitz++ is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and contributions to the library are welcomed."

The Object-Oriented Numerics Page http://monet.uwaterloo.ca/oon/ includes a bunch of freely available libraries.

Nerd Liberation Movement http://www.perkel.com/nerd/nlm.htm

Did you ever think of America as a pathetically low-tech nation? http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/fbr/colvin.html?909450003

Dolphin http://www.dolphin.openprojects.net/ "is an operating system for any IBM PC-compatible computer based on an Intel 80386SX or compatible microprocessor. Dolphin is currently planned to be a free operating system, like Linux. However, unlike the GNU licensing, Dolphin's license will not exclude the creation of commercial software, nor will it hinder it in any way." "Dolphin will have a graphical user interface, from boot-time on forward, ... icons will not replace text, but will augment it, and there will be absolutely no use of dancing paperclips,"

http://www.postgresql.org/index.html claims to be "the most advanced open-source database available anywhere".

Linux Software Map http://www.boutell.com/lsm/ "The linux software map is a database of many of the packages that have been written for, ported to, or, these days, simply compiled for linux and made available."

http://www.freshmeat.org/ has long list of applications http://appindex.freshmeat.net/ including "X11: Office Applications"

Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG) http://www.slug.org.au/ maintains a nice page on Network Interface Card settings http://www.slug.org.au/NIC/

Scheme as a client-side language http://www-white.media.mit.edu/~kbrussel/Schemelets/

http://www.sjgames.com/SS/ guilt by association

Global InstallFest http://www.installfest.net/ World Wide InstallFest

"If you're creating software and giving it away, you're a fine human being. If you're writing software and letting other people copy it and try it out as shareware, I appreciate your sense of trust, and if I like your work, I'll pay you. If you're copying other people's software and giving it away, you're damaging other people's interests, and should be ashamed, even if you're posing as a glamorous info-liberating subversive. But if you're copying other people's software and selling it, you're a crook and I despise you." -- Bruce Sterling http://www.eff.org/papers/eegtti/eeg_266.html#SEC267

THE HACKER CRACKDOWN: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier http://www.eff.org/papers/hacker_crackdown/ by Bruce Sterling

http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/debian

http://gnu.linux.ucla.edu/help/help.html

http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu

FreeBSD vs. Linux http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd/bsdvlin.htm

Linux Applications and Utilities Page http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml Spreadsheets, databases, games, programming tools, etc.

Operating Systems on the Web http://home.t-online.de/home/Sven.Paas/os.htm

Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People: The MIT Gallery of Hacks http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/Gallery.html

software glitches on the Aegis missile cruiser USS Yorktown http://www.gcn.com/gcn/1998/July13/cov2.htm [perhaps collect this with other "engineering failures"]

The Linux HOWTO Index http://www.amscons.com/mdw/HOWTO/

What does your phone number spell? http://www.phonespell.org/

DHCP FAQ http://web.syr.edu/~jmwobus/comfaqs/dhcp.faq.html "DHCP's purpose is to enable individual computers on an IP network to extract their configurations from a server (the 'DHCP server') or servers, in particular, servers that have no exact information about the individual computers until they request the information. The overall purpose of this is to reduce the work necessary to administer a large IP network."

A Beginning Tutorial for the Unix Shell: the most commonly-used commands. http://www.va.pubnix.com/shell/shellfaq.html#operations

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility http://www.cpsr.org/ ethics, computer fallibility, ...

"The Great Simoleon Caper" by Neal Stephenson http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/documents/simoleon.html electronic currency

RAID on Linux see "man raidtab". http://linas.org/linux/raid.html

IP Masquerade for Linux http://ipmasq.cjb.net/ See http://simracing.com/alison/gpl/faq-online.htm for an example of IP masquerading.

rebuilding the kernel http://www.calderasystems.com/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html

alphaWorks http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/Home/ points to a free XML editor/parser (written in JAVA); Jikes, a open-source Java compiler; and other nifty XML stuff.

Perhaps there could be combined. (Does this need help to work with Vernier devices ?)

• GINA http://www.gnome.org/applist/view.phtml?name=GINA is the Gnu INstrumentation Architecture. An "instrument" is almost any device that can be controlled by a computer, like as a voltmeter or a radio receiver. http://www.hams.com/gina/
• SampLin http://www.iaee.tuwien.ac.at/sensor/samplin/ is Scientific Data Acquisition, Visualization and Process Control software for Linux and other unix platforms. "simple BASIC-like script language"

GNOME has a very long application list. http://www.gnome.org/applist/list.phtml

PenguinPlay Game Software Development Kit http://sunsite.auc.dk/penguinplay/

http://www.mindspring.com/~joeja/programs.html A simple notepad like editor written entirely in Tcl/Tk.

http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d92-jwa/code/ "The Go-moku Apprentice is a go-moku playing program... that learns playing the game from studying its opponent. ... GMA is written in C++, and requires STL to compile. It is freely redistributable under the GNU GPL." ... "Celebrat is a very simple, non-interactive, text-mode calendar application that helps me keep track of people's birthdays. It reads a data file... in ASCII format, and prints on stdout a human-language summary ... of what events will take place up to ten days from now. Celebrat is written in C++ and flex. Except for a C++ compiler and (f)lex it requires STL to compile. Also, it supports i18n through the GNU Gettext library. Celebrat is freely redistributable under the GNU GPL."

Encyclopedia-list -- Development of a Free Encyclopedia http://lists.styx.net/mailman/listinfo/encyclopedia-list

Linux Knowledge Base http://linuxkb.seul.org/

"SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C, C++, and Objective-C with a variety of high-level programming languages." http://www.swig.org/

http://www.softwarebuero.de/wipeout-eng.html "WipeOut is the multi-user software development environment for Linux and other Unix systems. It supports C/C++, Java(tm), ... ... GUI Class Browser"

To: seul-edu 
Subject: A way to activate our efforts / open multimedia standards / Re: Developers tools?
From: Roman Suzi 
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 14:14:54 +0300 (MSK)
...
For example, I'd like to make something at leisure  to  provide
to the pool of Linux edu-ware.

But I can't  afford  learning  Gtk  toolkit  or  struggle  with
VisualTcl! I need something small and successful  at  first  to
have enough satisfaction for a larger step.

Is there any area where _quickies_ are possible?

I mean, do we have 10-20 man-hour project list which  could  be
done with pleasure and satisfaction with VisualTcl for example?

May be we can raise practical activity by doing a lot of  small
non-ambitious projects, which we can then present on  a  web  -
and the eduware web-page will not look empty!

OTOH, these  "quickies"  could  distract  efforts  from  larger
projects... But I think there we win more than lose.

Summary: its very hard to decide  to  participate  in  a  large
eduware project due to lack of tools for  quiality  multimedia.
Could we instead make a lot little things ("quickies"), so  the
list of accomplishements will not look empty and  attract  more
people, more developers, more clients with their  wishes?  (and
at the same time we will start to get satisfaction early?)

Can somebody from this list (better NOT developers  themselves)
provide ideas for small projects, that is programs, which could
be made by professional programmers at leasure or by  beginners
with equal (and quick) satisfaction?


Sincerely yours,
Roman A. Suzi

 -- Petrozavodsk -- Karelia -- Russia --
    -- powered by Linux RedHat 5.1 --

Visual Tcl is a graphical application development environment for Tcl/Tk. http://www.neuron.com/

http://www.forum.swarthmore.edu/news.archives/geometry.software.dynamic/summary.html ???

http://www.bcpl.net/~wnidiffe/math.html ???

Math Software Archives, Reviews, etc. http://www.forum.swarthmore.edu/~steve/steve/mathsoftware.html

Global SchoolNet Foundation - Linking Kids Around the World! http://www.gsn.org/ hosts the "laptop_teachers" and "logo-l-digest" (and other) mailing lists.

YORICK: An Interpreted Language for Scientific Computing http://shark.cmrp.ou.edu/~bfiedler/yorick/ with more info at http://www.imm.aps.anl.gov/yorick/yorick_toc.html

Confessions Of A Computer Atheist: Why It Pays To Keep An Open Mind About Platforms http://www.user-groups.com/ComputerTalk/CT-ARTICLES/Confessions.html

Exploring shortest path algorithms: Dijkstra and A* http://csel.cs.colorado.edu/~karl/ClassNotes+/Topics/ShortestPath/ (includes source code) (cool on-line Java demo)

Programming in Java and C http://www.afu.com/

Which Shell to Use? http://www.cc.vt.edu/cc/us/docs/unix/shells.html#2

UNIX Shell http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~ajb/docs/sh_att.html#error

printexitvalue $status {} $?

Shell Programming In Unix http://net.cs.utexas.edu/users/dsb/Demos/shell/lecture.htm

UNIX Shell Special Characters and Their Meanings http://www-ec.njit.edu/ec_info/home/faq/shell/SpecialCharacters_01.html

Executor, an application that allows you to run your Macintosh applications on PCs. http://www.ardi.com/ mirrored at Executor/Linux costs $75; Executor/Windows costs $150. Students can get Executor/Linux for $35 and Executor/Windows for $65. Download a free demo.

Top ten reasons to go into computers http://www.cs.utah.edu/%7Eratan/humor/top-10.txt and the bottom 10: http://www.cs.utah.edu/%7Eratan/humor/bottom-10.txt

" Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies." http://www.cs.utah.edu/%7Eratan/humor/some-more.txt

The Electric Postcard http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/postcards/ ???

Amiga, Inc.

Yggdrasil http://www.yggdrasil.com/ "free software for the rest of us"

The Twelve Steps of Appleholics Anonymous http://www.macfaq.com/faqs.html mentions "platform agnosticism"

the Free DOS project http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/ mirror http://www.freedos.org/ "FreeDOS aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system. ... released under the GNU General Public License." Also see The FreeDOS WebRing Home http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~z63rrl/freedos/fdwr/

The great Linux experiment, which Brian Cooley had labeled Project Heresy http://builder.cnet.com/Servers/Shafer/032398/ . "I ended up committing to an experiment in which I would live as much as possible in a Linux-only world for a month, chronicling my experiences in the Builder Buzz." ... "many of the Macintosh's true believers didn't disappear, they just became Linux fans." -- Dan Shafer <dshafer at cnet.com>

"Nobody wants to lose a hardware sale because their hardware doesn’t support Linux." -- http://www.msnbc.com/news/225695.asp (See that ? MSNBC ?)

"Introduction to object-oriented programming using C++" by Peter Müller http://admin.gnacademy.org:8001/uu-gna/text/cc/ "This course was intended for students who want to learn more about object-oriented programming. Concepts presented are exemplified using the C++ programming language. This course is not intended to learn C++ in all its details."

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu lots of cool free software. superopt, octave, oleo, etc. ...

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/FreelyAvailableTexts "freely redistributable information that isn't software" [isn't there a web page somewhere that makes this file obsolete ?]

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. http://www.oreilly.com/ publishes lots of cool books on Linux, Perl programming, C++ programming, Palm Pilot programming,

the USENIX Association http://usenix.org/ "the community of engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world."

$259 OpenDialog http://www.fgm.com/html/products/opendialog.html "is a developer tool that dramatically reduces the amount of coding necessary for dialog box management on the Macintosh." Free demo download.

C++ Tutorial; The C Coders Home Page http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/user/fiore/bookmarks?C_and_CPP ???

LOGO http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/user/fiore/bookmarks?logo ???

the egcs project http://egcs.cygnus.com/ EGCS is a free software project to further the development of the GNU compilers using an open development environment.

http://www.acm.org/

MacintoshOS.com http://www.MacintoshOS.com/ shareware archives, clip art,

Download Lynx Now: http://lynx.browser.org/

Csh Programming Considered Harmful http://gonzo.tamu.edu/csh.whynot.html mirror http://www.gregor.com/dgregor/csh_whynot.html The csh is a tool utterly inadequate for programming, and its use for such purposes should be strictly banned. (If you don't have to use a shell, but just want an interpreted language, use PERL, REXX, TCL, Scheme, or Python. )

Apple Technical Notes http://developer.apple.com/technotes/

``Reply-To'' Munging Considered Harmful: An Earnest Plea to Mailing List Administrators http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html "We should not penalize the conscientious to coddle those who run brain-dead software."

http://litestep.net/ ??? Litestep is a shell replacement for Windows 95, 98, and NT, that will give your Windows desktop the AfterSTEP look & feel. It consists of a Wharf toolbar, a popup menu and some modules.

Mac95 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/2736/ Themes to make a Win95 box look like a MacOS box

http://skinz.org/ ???

GNU Octave http://www.uni-ulm.de/urz/Hard_Software/Dokumentationen/free_unix/octave/interpreter/octave_toc.html

Patterns Home Page http://hillside.net/patterns/patterns.html "information about all aspects of software patterns and pattern languages. Patterns and Pattern Languages are ways to describe best practices, good designs, and capture experience in a way that it is possible for others to reuse this experience."
More information about patterns from _Object Models: Strategies, Patterns and Applications_ [book by Coad, North, Mayfield] ftp://ftp.oi.com/pub/oi/books/ .

Ingemar Ragnemalm http://www.lysator.liu.se/~ingemar/

MAC GAMES http://alex.simplenet.com/games/

Pascal Central http://pascal-central.com/ "provides the Pascal community one place to obtain Pascal technical information, Pascal source code, and Pascal-related internet links." Mostly "Macintosh Pascal", but much "General Pascal" and some "PC Pascal" information. Includes

• Open Source Pascal Compiler Project Macintosh Version http://pascal-central.com/osp/ [challenge: needs help !] points to lots of resources useful to anyone doing a compiler project [FIXME: tell MMIX computer_architecture.html#mmix about this ?]
• http://pascal-central.com/merlin.html "lots of Pascal source code for the Macintosh"
• http://pascal-central.com/source.html "a conglomeration of all the Macintosh source code and source code pages submitted to Pascal Central."
• "Why Pascal is Better Than C" http://pascal-central.com/top10.html
• "the Free Pascal Compiler" (FPC) http://pascal-central.com/fp.html .

Symantec's Think Pascal 4.5d4 http://www.lysator.liu.se/~ingemar/tp45d4/think.html is apparently free. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/4680/product.html (Lots of other Macintosh software development tools here).

"Coding standards or guidelines will not make good programmers out of bad programmers. They have absolutely no effect at all on the correctness of the code that a programmer produces. You cannot legislate good design." -- Robert Martin

Christian Hackbart http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~hackbart/ has written a "C2Pas-Converter is a simple CPP to Pascal Converter (source included)", "stringcompression" (??) (some pages in Deutsch)

H. Peter Anvin http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/ Linux - the OS of global cooperation I am Baha'i -- ask me about it or see http://www.bahai.org/

L. Peter Deutsch in conversation with Stig Hackvän http://devlinux.org/ghost/interview.html

L. Peter Deutsch, as the author of Ghostscript, has done what very few people have managed to do: he has managed to work on a project of his choosing, to release it as free software, and to do so while generating a sufficiently positive cash flow that he can now consider retirement.

...

Doing cool stuff should be rewarded in a tangible way. ...

Linux and Decentralized Development by Christopher B. Browne http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html lists "Real Disadvantages to Decentralization: Linux Support is Fragmented" and states:

Despite there being some problems to decentralization, I believe that there is a net advantage for Linux to having the variety of independent organizations fulfilling their various roles.

...

I would thus conclude that it is not, in general, a waste of time to have multiple implementations of things.

If anything, I would suggest that there may be some places where additional projects could be useful. There do exist certain ``bottlenecks'' where there is dependance on a single tool

Open Source http://www.opensource.org/ but also see the article "Why ``Free Software'' is better than ``Open Source''" by Richard Stallman http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-or-free.html

The MIT Gallery of Hacks http://hacks.mit.edu/Gallery.html mirror: http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/

http://www.penguincomputing.com/ ???

The Gimp. http://www.gimp.org/ the GNU Image Manipulation Program. (Script-Fu.org http://www.Script-Fu.org/ Script-Fu is the Scheme based programming language that is built into The Gimp).

Cross-references for FreeBSD http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/FreeBSD-srctree/ "the hyperlinked source code tree for FreeBSD-2.2.1 which allows you to find functions, structs etc. in the FreeBSD source code by name."

http://www.thenoodle.com/

"Open Source and Open Data" http://www.illusionary.com/opendata.html by Derek Glidden

"Why the Linux World is Upset and Shouldn't Be" By Robert X. Cringely http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981105.html

program listings from _PC Techniques_ magazine are archived at ftp://ftp.coriolis.com/pub/pctech (published by The Coriolis Group http://www.coriolis.com/ ) "We place *no* restrictions on the distribution or use of the source code published in the magazine. Please add it to your user group library or BBS file archives. Pass it along to your friends. Make sure that anyone who might conceivably find the code useful will get it."

The Open Group http://www.osf.org/ ???

http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/iso8859/imessages.html software internationalization

Geek: Game of Champions http://vader.boutell.com/~boutell/geek.cgi humorous.

http://www.gimp.org/

Scriptics Corporation http://www.scriptics.com/ Formed by John Ousterhout, Tcl creator and industry visionary, ... the Tcl scripting language ... Scriptics provides development tools, technology extensions, and commercial support services for Tcl while continuing to develop the open source Tcl and Tk packages. The company's goal is to make Tcl the preeminent, unifying platform for creating applications that integrate the many components, applications, and protocols in today's complex enterprises."

Athena University http://www.athena.edu/ "virtual online university"

Perhaps SLUG should have a Linux PDA project; see wearable_electronic.html#pda

Procmail tutorial http://www.stimpy.net/procmail/tutorial/ Procmail is an autonomous mail processor. It takes incoming mail and acts according to a predefined set of recipes.

http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/ free utility to let you customize the Windows 95, 98, & NT 4 look and feel. Make it look like bePC, Mac System 8, or Motif. "themes" and "skin".

http://www.cnet.com/Content/Reports/Special/Linux/index.html?tag=st.cn.1fd1.smpl.tc

Open Source Bill of Rights, and Beyond http://slashdot.org/features/99/03/03/1646244.shtml ???

Windows2Linux.org http://www.Windows2Linux.org/ "Everything you need to switch from Windows to Linux. (On One Page.)"

Metaprogramming and Free Availability of Sources Two Challenges for Computing Today1 François-René Rideau Dang-Vu Bân http://www.tunes.org/~fare/articles/ll99/index.en.html excellent argument for "open source" software.

"Software programmers who love to program should be set free to do so. They also need to eat." -- Anonymous http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/03/17/1442245&cid=1205

Free Software Needs Profit http://www.ddj.com/oped/1999/oust.htm ???

Scriptics: The Tcl Platform Company http://www.scriptics.com/

http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/19/1536223.shtml

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/03/20/1421207&pid=63#341

Gamelan - The Official Java Directory http://www.gamelan.com/

Corel freebies software http://www.corel.com/freebies/ include 30 day free tral offer of Corel® WordPerfect® Suite 8 CorelDRAW(tm) 8 for Power Macintosh®, CorelDRAW(tm) 8 for Windows® 95/Windows NT®, "CorelXARA(tm) 2.0 A complete Web graphics tool!"

Apple freebies software http://www.apple.com/appleworks/free.html ClarisWorks 5.0 for Windows ClarisWorks 5.0 for Macintosh (free office suite)

Yeah Write for Windows http://www.wordplace.com/ small, fast, free word processor; and complete text online of the book _Almost Perfect_ by W. E. Peterson

From:  (Edward Green)
Newsgroups: sci.physics
Subject: Re: closed? open? empty? bounded?
Date: 5 Dec 1995 19:54:47 -0500
Organization: The Pipeline

' (Toby Bartels)' wrote:

>The statement that `Nonsense happens.' is nonsense is clearly wrong,
>because if `Nonsense happens.' is nonsense, then,
>since `Nonsense happens.' happens, nonsense happens,
>in which case `Nonsense happens.' is not nonsense.

So "Nonsense happens" is true, "Nonsense doesn't happen" is false,  while
"This statement is false" is nonsense and "This statement is nonsense" is
false  --  because if false it is sense and so can be assigned a truth
value:  False.

Excuse me while I run into the street laughing maniacally.

--

Ed Green

http://www.delorie.com/

http://www.fdisk.com/ ???

OpenContent http://www.opencontent.org/home.shtml

OpenContent's only excuse for existing is to "facilitate the prolific creation of freely available, high-quality, well-maintained Content."

LDP (sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/) [gregh at sunsite.unc.edu]
LG (www.ssc.com/lg/) [gazette at ssc.com]
(linux.org) [suggestions at linux.org]
(li.org) [mstrates at minkirri.apana.org.au]
Woven Goods (chandra.ph1.uni-koeln.de/linux/) [lutz.henckel at fokus.gmd.de]
Linux News (www.threepoint.com)
LinuxPlus (www.linux.com.pl) [redakcja at linux.com.pl]
Knights of the System Table (www.clarkson.edu/~dulino/knights/)
? [gfaieta at iname.com]
Linux Web Watcher (www.emry.net/webwatcher/) [reblue at emry.net]
Linux Resources (www.linuxresources.com)
Linux Projects Catalogue (www.chieti.com/lpc)
Linux Advocacy Project (www.10mb.com/linux/) [linux at 10mb.com]
GNOME (www.gnome.org) [miguel at kernel.org]

Pointers to other people's list of linux distributions;
pointers to other people's list of ``tiny'' (floppy-based ?) linux distributions.
*especially* point out *reviews*.]
[FIXME: extract the root page of most of these links,
and see if they're worth putting on a ``linux'' section of my ``periodicals'' file.]

distributions [make sure other lists have these before deleting my link:]
normal:

http://www.debian.org/

tiny:

TINY Linux
http://tiny.seul.org/

http://www.tudols.com/dist.html
has a list of ``Mini distributions''.

Reviews of Linux distributions:
http://www.linuxberg.com/distribution.html

http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/main/distro.html
describes about a dozen Linux distributions

http://www.tudols.com/dist.html
has a long list of all known current linux distributions.

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/
list lots of linux distributions, and has pointers to other lists of distributions.

Linux HQ Distribution List
www.linuxhq.com/dist-index.html


http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/opensource/390821.html
reviews
Caldera OpenLinux 1.3, Debian GNU/Linux 2.0, Linux Slackware 3.6, and the official Red Hat Linux 5.2
.

http://www.linux.com/learn/getlinux/
lists over 20 distributions with a brief blurb about each one.

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1266/1/
reviews of many linux distributions

Security-Enhanced Linux
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html
some modifications to Red Hat Linux.

Linux running as a user-space process on top of L4, a real-time operating system
(DROPS, the DROPS - The Dresden Real-Time Operating System Project).
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/LinuxOnL4/



http://www.linuxiso.org/distro-battle.html
reviews 5 distributions



After you've picked a distribution,
be sure to check out
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/lasg/distributions/index.html
for tips on how to improve the security of that distribution.

And maybe play some games
  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/80/games


Linux on a Floppy
http://www.smith-house.org/goodlinks/Linux/Linux_Distributions/Linux_on_a_Floppy/index.html
lists about 16 Linux-on-a-floppy distributions.