Linux Watch There are a lot of smart and very generous people on the internet who both talk the talk and walk the walk for open standards and public domain applications. In our minds the foremost among these are the people who have developed and continue to develop the Linux operating system and Linux software applications.
For the uninitiated Linux
is a public domain Unix like operating system that runs on Intel or
Intel clone PC's plus several other less commonly used RISC
processors. At one time and mostly still today, Unix is the operating
system at the heart of the Internet, so everyone needs to pay some
attention to it.
A fast PC running Linux and X-windows has the look and feel of a Unix
workstation including all of its warts, but also all of its innate
computing power . More importantly it will run some very good
public domain Unix/Linux software applications. We"ll talk more
about the software application later, but first lets again
acknowledge those hearty Linux and X-windows developers, who face the
daunting task of trying to provide updated drivers for new video
cards and peripherals with very little or no support from the
manufacturers.
We've listed a few Linux related resources on the Web at the bottom
of this page and for extra help you will find that Linux guru's
maintain some very serious discussion on Usenet newsgroups like
comp.windows.x.i386unix and comp.os.linux.x and similar comp.os.Linux groups
for networking, hardware, etc.
Real Linux guru's are passionate about their OS and may occasionally
slip into some name calling, but the newsgroups have very serious
discussion and Linux development continues at a rapid
pace.
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So why should
Wind-doze be the only thing on today's high capacity hard
drives, we should have both the mainstream and the
avant garde Linux in more computer boxes. Our interest here at |
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www.linux.org The Linux organization Homepage
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/#ldp The Linux Documentation Project
http://www.ecsnet.com/
More Linux info
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/2301/index.html Planet Linux
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~adampr/linux.html All about Linux
Woven
Goods Linux project- An
extensive inventory of Linux related work.
http://www.kachinatech.com:80/SAL/- Scientific Applications for Linux
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