Linux

Note: I apologize if there are out-of-date links here, but this web page is intended primarily for my own personal use, and isn't updated on a regular basis.

Speaking just for me, I don't think I have Linux blinders on my eyes. I can see other platforms, but I *choose* to ignore them on the theory that if I ignore them hard enough they will go away.

This theory is obviously crazy. However, it also appears to be working.

— Eric S. Raymond, 10-Jan-2002

News
- Freshmeat
- Slashdot
- LWN.net
- Kernel Traffic
General
- Linux Documentation Project
archive sites
- ibiblio Linux archive
- Linux archive on tsx-11.mit.edu
Editors
- Emacs-based
  - GNU Emacs
  - JOVE, Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs
  - MicroEMACS
  - JASSPA MicroEmacs
  - Zile - Zile is Lossy Emacs
- Vi-based
  - VIM
- other
  - JOE, which is by default similar to WordStar or "Turbo" IDEs, but also has Emacs and Pico emulation
  - GNU Nano, an improved clone of Pico
Search software
- Namazu
Development tools
- C utilities
- Bug-tracking systems
  - Bugzilla
  - Bosco (rewrite of Bugzilla in PHP)
  - Flyspray
  - Mantis
  - Trac, integrated with wiki and Subversion repository browser
  - Anthill (no longer actively developed)
  - JitterBug (no longer actively developed)
  - Fenris based on Bugzilla (code no longer available?)
- Software Configuration Management (Revision Control)
  - Better SCM Initiative — has info and comparisons of CVS alternatives including Arch, Aegis, BitKeeper, Subversion, and Vesta
  - Comments on OSS/FS Software Configuration Management (SCM) Systems by David A. Wheeler includes a comparison of centralized vs. decentralized SCM.
  - CVS
    - ViewCVS (also works for Subversion)
    - cvsweb
    - CvsGraph
  - Subversion
  - Arch
  - Aegis
  - Codeville (proof of concept stage)
  - darcs
  - monotone
  - OpenCM
  - Mercurial
GGI, General Graphics Interface
infrared communication
- Linux IrDA
- Linux Infrared Remote Control
expansion bus support
- Parallel Port (includes doc on ppdev)
- Linux USB
  - USBmon
  - USB Development for Linux page
- The FreeBSD USB page, includes some stuff relevant to Linux, such as the "ezload" package for the Anchorchips/Cypress EZUSB microcontrollers, as used in the ActiveWire USB board.
  Note: the ezload package doesn't seem to build for Linux any more, but there is some newer software at Thomas Sailer's Linux Driver for AnchorChips' EZUSB
  And it may be even easier to use the "ez" and "dl" programs from Cichlid Communications, click on "Embedded Systems" in the menu on the left side of the page
- Linux IEEE-1394 (also known as FireWire or i.LINK, which are trademarks of Apple and Sony, respectively)
- Linux-GPIB aka IEEE-488, aka HPIB -- SourceForge project info
email
- Qmail
- Postfix
  - Postfix home page
  - Postfix TLS extension
- Courier
  - Courier Mail Server
  - Courier-IMAP, part of Courier or available separately
  - maildrop - mail delivery agent with filtering, part of Courier or available separately
  - SqWebMail - web mail client, part of Courier or available separately
- SquirrelMail web mail client
- fetchmail
Time
- Network Time Protocol
- PPS kernel patch for Linux
Printing
- Ghostscript Postscript interpreter
- CUPS (Common Unix Printing System)
- OMNI driver model for Ghostscript
VOIP software
- client (softphone)
  - Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting)
  - linphone
  - minisip
  - WengoPhone
  - Twinkle
- server, proxy, and PBX
- library
  - eXosip
  - oSIP
Fax software
- Mgetty + Sendfax
- efax
- Hylafax
SCSI
- ncr53c8xx driver
CDR
- CD Writing HOWTO
- cdrecord
  - cdrecord RPMs
- cdrdao
  - cdrdao RPMs
- VCDImager/VCDRip
CD-Audio
- CD Paranoia
- cdda2wav
Iomega ZIP and Jaz drives
- jaZip graphical interface tool for Jaz and Zip
Kernel Change Summaries
- Cutting Edge Linux
- 2.1.x
- 2.0.x
- up to 1.3.79
Linux Problem-Solving Page
Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
Plug-and-Play
- Plug-and-Play
- Plug-and-Play support
Test User Interface
- NEWT — local copy, as I can't find any official home
- libRUIN — Renderer for User Interfaces in Ncurses, using XML-based user interface markup languages (e.g. Mozilla XUL)
Graphics libraries
- GTK+
- Cairo
  - GooCanvas
  - crcanvas
  - libccc Cairo canvas
Audio
- OSS
  - OSS Programmer's Guide
  - OSS/Free for Linux
  - OSS from 4Front Technologies (commercial)
- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
- Servers
  - esound (esd)
  - aRts
  - PulseAudio (platform independent, network transparent)
  - NAS Network Auido System
  - JACK
- Libraries
- Editors
  - Snd sound editor
  - GLAME
  - Audacity
  - mpgedit — edits MPEG audio files without decoding and reencoding
- Using Audio DATs in DDS drives
- DATlib
- GramoFile recorder with level meter etc.
- Specific card support
  - Creative Labs Open Source page, includes drivers for the Soundblaster Live, AWE 32/64, and Dxr2
  - Emu10k1 driver patches for SP/DIF (for Sound Blaster Live)
  - Linux AWE32 driver and UK mirror with additional information
  - Linux drivers for PCI soundcards
- Speech Synthesis
  - Festival
  - MBROLA
  - rsynth
Video
- MPEG
  - libmpeg2 - a free MPEG-2 video stream decoder (includes mpeg2dec test program)
  - xine MPEG-2 a/v player
  - libmpeg3
  - mpgtx command line MPEG audio/video/system file toolbox
  - mpgcut command line file splitter (obsoleted by mpgtx)
  - mpegsplit demultiplexer library
  - Linux MPEG2 Project (out of date?)
  - GopFixup adjusts timestamps in MPEG 2 Program Streams
  - lots of technical infomration on MPEG and DVD (not Linux-specific) can be found at http://www.le-hacker.org/dvd.html.
- DVD
  - Ogle DVD player
  - dvdauthor
  - dvdrtools, a fork of cdrtools
  - DVD support for cdrecord
  - LiViD (also try http://www.au.linuxvideo.org/), includes mpeg2dec and ac3dec
  - Dorian Moore's page on using the Pioneer DVR-A03 with Linux
  - VideoLAN DVD and MPEG tools
  - DVD on Linux using a PCI decoder card based on the LSI Logic L64021
  - see the filesystem section of this page for UDF info
  May be stale (as of 20-DEC-2003):
  - LinuxDVD
  - DVD and Linux
  - Linux and DVDs (including DVD-ROM drive ioctl patch)
- tvset (may be stale as of 20-DEC-2003)
- Video For Linux Project (may be stale as of 20-DEC-2003)
- BTTV - A Linux driver for Bt848 based frame grabbers
- bttvgrab, a program for grabbing video sequences using the bttv driver
- Zapping, a Gnome/GTK TV viewer
Video Editing applications
- GOPchop MPEG 2 Program Stream editor, GOP boundary (not frame accurate, but no reencoding)
- LVE - Linux Video Editor
- Cinelerra
- Kino
Graphics applications
- raster
  - GIMP
- vector
- graphs
  - Graphviz
UPS support
- Network UPS Tools
- Gnome UPS Monitor (use with Network UPS Tools)
Scanner support
- SANE
- xvscan
Window Managers
Networking
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Firewalls
  - GUI configuration tools
  - Firewall Monitor (fwmon)
  - ipfwadm
- PPP
  - Notes on using AutoPPP with mgetty+sendfax
  - Newer notes on using AutoPPP with mgetty+sendfax
- Mobile-IP
- Network tools
  - Protocol Ananlyzers/Sniffers
    - Ethereal
    - K-Arp-Ski
    - Sniffit
    - SPY (commercial, no source code)
- Network boot
  - EtherBoot
  - Netboot
  - NILO (or try here)
- Router distributions
  - FREESCO
  - XORP
  - Linux Router Project (R.I.P.)
Serial communication
- SHSMOD has patches, test programs, and info on operating common motherboard serial chips at higher rates than 115.2K. Most recent chips can operate at 230.4K and 460.8K. Some can even do 921.6K!
Languages
- Programming Languages for Linux on LinuxNet
- GNU Ada (GNAT)
- Java
Laptop
- Linux Laptop home page
- Linux APM
- Linux PCMCIA Information Page
- Linux kernel module support
- LiLAC, Linux on Laptop Computers
- IBM ThinkPad
Wireless
- Wireless LAN resources for Linux
- Wireless Tools for Linux
- Linux-wlan project, provides the wlan-ng driver for Prism 2
- patches to linux-wlan-ng and libpcap
- wmwave
- AirSnort (SourceForge project info)
- Linux-based Access Points:
Distributions
- Red Hat
- Debian GNU/Linux
- Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux
- Slackware
File Systems
- Ext2, the most commonly used Linux filesystem
- IBM's JFS Journaled File System (GPL)
- SGI's XFS journaling file system (GPL)
- IBM's OpenAFS (IBM Public License)
- Axis' JFFS Journaling Flash File System (GPL)
- JFFS2 by Red Hat, based on JFFS (GPL)
- PRAMFS from Montavista, a Protected and Persistent RAM FileSystem
- LinLogFS, a Log-Structured Filesystem (formerly known as dtfs)
- Coda, advanced networked file system, based on AFS2 (GPL)
- InterMezzo high-availability distributed file system, inspired by Coda (GPL)
- Clustered File Systems:
  - OpenGFS clustered file system (GPL)
  - Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS) (GPL)
  - Lustre
  - Ceph
- UDF (as used on DVD-ROM)
- HFS, the Macintosh Hierarchical File System
- Reiserfs, a file system based on a balanced tree algorithm
- OS-9 compatability
  - LinuxRBF (GPL)
  - os9tools -- command line utilities, inspired by mtools. also includes an assembler
- CP/M compatability
  - Cpmtools -- command line utilities, inspired by mtools.
- Micro$oft compatability
  - NTFS
  - VFAT, the MS-DOS file system with long filename support (as used in Windows 95)
  - FAT32, the new version of the FAT filesystem that is part of Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2
  - Joliet, an non-standard extension to ISO-9660
  - FSDEXT2: a port of the Linux EXT2 filesystem to Windows 95 (GPL)
  - Mtools -- command line utilities.
- CBMFS for Commodore 1541/1571/1581 disk images
Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
ACLs
- POSIX Access Control Lists on Linux by Andreas Grunbacher of SuSE Labs
- IEEE 1003.1e/2c drafts (withdrawn from standardization process)
- Extended Attributes and Access Control Lists for Linux
Floppy disk control for unusual formats
- Fdutils
- LIBDSK
- Cpmtools
General copy/conversion programs, similar to dd, useful for streaming to tape drives or for data recovery
- ddrescue
- sdd by Joerg Schilling
- ddd ("double dd") by Tapani Lindgren (comp.sources.unix v15i084) (not to be confused with the ddd debugger
- team by Piercarlo Grandi (originally comp.sources.unix v27i195, now maintained by joerg@FreeBSD.org)
- buffer by Lee McLoughlin
- mbuffer by Thomas Maier-Komor
- bag by Dobrica Pavlinus
- cstream by Matrin Cracauer>
Winmodems (yuck)
- Linmodems.org
- LTModem project to support the Lucent LT PCI soft modems
- Lucent LT Win Modem linux support (binary only)
Legacy network support
- Samba, an SMB file server (for use with Microsoft network clients)
- Linux Enhanced SMBFS (CIFS for Unix for smbfs)
- ncpfs
- DECnet for Linux, supports DECnet phase IV and LAT
EDA - moved
Cryptography
- LUKS — Linux Unified Key Setup
  - FreeOTFE for Windows and PDAs, compatible with LUKS
- TrueCrypt
Mathematical and scientific software
- Libraries
  - GMP multiple precision arithmetic library
  - MPFR multiple precision floating point library
  - LibTomMath number theoretic multiple-precision integer library
- Applications
  - Octave, somewhat compatible with MATLAB
  - Genius
  - Dr Geo
CNC
- EMC2
- GCAM
Database
- Relational databases:
  - Derby (in Java)
  - Firebird
  - Ingres
  - MaxDB (formerly SAPdb)
  - MySQL
  - PostgreSQL
- Front end/management tools:
Simulation
- Macintosh
  - Basilisk II
    - Getting Basilisk II running on Linux
  - vMac Macintosh simulator
Linux for non-x86 platforms
- Linux/VAX
- IBM 370 & 390
  - Linux for S/390 page at IBM, includes source patches
  - Linux for S/390 page at Marist College, includes binaries
  - Linux/390 Development and Information Site at Princeton University
  - IBM 370/390 Architecture
  - Hercules, a System/370 and ESA/390 emulator, which can be used to run Linux/390 on other systems

Linux for Alpha

Cool Games for Linux

Game development tools:

ClanLib Game SDK

Desktop

GNOME, the GNU Network Object Model Environment
KDE, the K Desktop Environment

Web publishing, content management, and blogging

Plone (uses Zope and Zope CMF)
- CalendarX
- Quills Weblog
- PloneMall eCommerce
- PloneWebMail
- SoftwarePackageNG
- ZPhotoSlides
Silva (uses Zope)
Zope (Python)
- ZServerSSL
- CMFSubversionBrowser
- COREBlog
- ZWarehouse eCommerce
- WebMail
Drupal (PHP)
e107 (PHP)
geeklog (PHP)
Joomla! (PHP) (formerly known as Mambo)
Midgard CMS (PHP)
PHP-Nuke (PHP)
phpslash (PHP)
PostNuke (PHP)
Slash (Perl)
Textpattern (PHP)
Thatware (PHP)
WordPress (PHP)
Xaraya (PHP)
Xoops (PHP)
Zwiki (uses Zope)

Software collaborative/development/project management/hosting systems

GForge (fork of SourceForge)
Savane (fork of SourceForge, used at savannah.gnu.org)
XoopsForge (build on Xoops)

System Recovery Utilities

tomsrtbt
SystemRescueCD

I'm running Red Hat Linux 9 on my home system and Fujitsu P-2040 subnotebook. My two DEC Multias (Alpha-based machines AKA "UDB") are running Red Hat Linux 7.2.

I use Linux to do a lot of cross development for Ubicom (formerly Scenix), Microchip, and Motorola processors.

Other free Unix Clones

Equal Time for the Opposition

Some (many?) people hate Unix. Whether you love it or hate it, you can probably find some entertainment value in The Unix-Hater's Handbook by Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise & Steven Strassman, unfortunately now out of print.

Bay Area

There is no CABAL. Or is there?
SVLUG

Linux Rules! (but you already knew that, didn't you?)

Last updated February 15, 2008

eric@brouhaha.com


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