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Here are links to resources on the net about Linux, the UNIX look-a-like operating system developed by Linus Torvalds and thousands of others all over the Internet. If these Web pages and documentation files don't give you the immediate solution you need, visit the #linuxhelp channel on the freenode IRC network.

Please note that the below links point to pages that I do not control, so please don't contact me about their content (or lack thereof :-). Within each section, items are listed (mostly) alphabetically. If you find any dead links on this page, please send me email.

The Linux Information Sheet
The Linux FAQ
The Linux Meta-FAQ
Linux Documentation Project (LDP)
Linux HOWTO Index
Linux Online!'s FAQ List
The TUCOWS Linux HOWTO Page
Linux Firewall & Security Site
Linux Mailing Lists Archive
Linux Man Pages Archive
Linux Man Pages via the Web
Linux Documentation at MetaLab
Linux 2.x Documentation at LinuxHQ
Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO
Linux on Laptops
Linux Parallel Port Devices page
Linux Hardware Database
Cheek Consulting
RedHat's Knowledge Base
LinuxCare
Installation and Getting Started Guide
System Administrators Guide
Network Administrators Guide (2nd Ed.)
Network Administrators Guide (1st Ed.)
Linux devfs (Device File System) FAQ
Debian Policy Manual
PPP HOWTO
A dhcpd Tutorial
LILO Documentation
Unofficial LILO Support Page
Plug-and-Play HOWTO
Networking HOWTO
Linux 2.4 Networking HOWTO
Firewall HOWTO
Netfilter/iptables Documentation & HOWTOs
IPchains HOWTO
IP Masquerading HOWTO
Linux 2.4 Advanced Routing HOWTO
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
Pluggable Authentication Modules
Linux Administrators Security Guide
Red Hat Linux FAQ
Red Hat Linux Errata Page
NPR's April 1998 Story on Linux
The Freshmeat software archive
DaveCentral's Linux page
SourceForge
The Linux Software Map (LSM)
RPMFind finds RPM packages
Debian Package Archive
TUCOWS Linux page
Linux Central
The Linux Mall
The Ultimate Directory of Linux Software
Linux System Labs (LSL)
Linux Boot Disk & Recovery Software
Linux Crypto Software
Linux Newsreaders @ Metalab
RedHat Software Repository
Alan Cox's Linux Networking Project
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
The Apache HTTP Server Project
The Apache/Perl Project
Ext2 Filesystem Page
The Enlightenment Window Manager
Enlightenment Themes
FVWM: F? Virtual Window Manager
GNOME
GNOME Documentation Project
GNOME Workshop Project
GNU libc version 2
KDE: The K Desktop Environment
Mutt: A text-mode MIME mail reader
Linuxconf Administration Utility
Linux-USB.org
The Lothar Project
The Netfilter/iptables Project
The SAMBA Project
Wine: A Windows Emulator for Linux
FIPS 2.0 splits DOS/Windows partitions
The Linux Disk Editor (LDE)
Linus Torvalds
Alan Cox
Eric Raymond
LinuxToday News Service
SlashDot (News for Nerds; Stuff that Matters)
The Freshmeat software archive
Linux Weekly News
LinuxToday PR
Linevents: Conferences and LUGs
Planet IT's Linux Technology Center
Debian Weekly News
Kernel Traffic: a weekly newsletter
Linux-Radio.com
Linux.com
Linux Online!
Google's Linux Search Engine
Linux International
The Linux Internet Support Cooperative
LinuxHelp
Linux Standard Base (LSB)
TuneLinux: Linux Performance Tuning
LinuxCare
LinuxPlanet
LinuxPower
LinTraining
Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
TUX: US East Coast User Groups
The OpenProjects Network
Linux Development Grant Fund
The Puffin Group
Linux and the GNU Project
Dell Computer
IBM
Hewlett-Packard
Open Source Developer Network
VA Linux Systems
Linux is the kernel, but most of the system software comes from the GNU Project, which is maintained by the Free Software Foundation. Here are sources of information about FSF and GNU.
The GNU Project
The Free Software Foundation
The GNU General Public License (GPL)
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Brave Gnu World newsletter
GNU Manuals Online
GNU Software ...
The GNU FTP Archive
a2ps: an Any-to-PostScript converter
Bash: The Bourne Again Shell
Cygwin: GNU Tools for Windows
Cygwin User's Guide
Emacs: a powerful, extensible editor
Emacs.org has many Emacs resources
Emacs FAQ
Emacs for Windows FAQ
Emacs for Windows FTP archive
Elisp: Emacs-Lisp
Emacs-Lisp Reference Manual
Emacs-Lisp Archive
Emacs-Lisp Archive Search Engine
The Cygwin Project
GCC: The GNU Compiler Collection
Ghostscript, Ghostview, and GSview
glibc: The GNU C Library
Gnus: an Emacs-based mail/news reader
GPG: GNU Privacy Guard
The Hurd
The Hurd and Linux
The Debian GNU/Hurd Project
The X Window System
X Windows is not a Linux-specific software system, but the XFree86 implementation of X is widely used on Linux systems, so it seems useful to include some relevant links here.
X.org maintains tge X Window System
X11.org is involved too
The XFree86 Project
XFree86 Supported Video Cards
GTK+: The Gimp Toolkit
Window Managers & Desktop Environments
The GNOME Project
KDE: The K Desktop Environment
X Window Managers Overview
Enlightenment Window Manager
Enlightenment Documentation
Enlightenment Themes
FVWM: F? Virtual Window Manager
eXode: Enhanced X Open Desktop
X Windows Web Resources
X Windows Applications
Eterm: a terminal emulator
Xmms: an MP3 player
The XV image viewer
Linux Distributions Index
The Debian FAQ
Debian Documentation Project
Installation CD-ROM ISO Images ...
LinuxISO.org's ISO Image Archive
SourceForge's ISO image archive
Linuxberg's ISO image archive
Red Hat 6.2 ISO CD-ROM Images
Debian ISO CD-ROM Images
Caldera OpenLinux ISO CD-ROM Images
Distributions in alphabetical order ...
Armed Linux
Caldera OpenLinux
Corel Linux
Debian GNU/Linux
HA Linux
Linux Power PC Project
Linux Mandrake
MkLinux (for the Power Mac)
PhatLinux (installs in a DOS filesystem)
Red Hat Linux
Red Hat Mirror Sites
Slackware Linux
Stampede Linux
Storm Linux
SuperAnt Mini Linux
SuSE Linux
Tomsrtbt: Linux on 1 floppy
TurboLinux from Pacific Hitech
WinLinux 2000
YellowDog Linux
Linux Kernel HOWTO
Linux kerneld Mini-HOWTO
Linux Kernel Archives
Linux Kernel Version History Chart
Linux Kernel Mailing List FAQ
Linux Kernel Mailing List Archive
Kernel Traffic: a weekly newsletter
The kernelnewbies Mailing List
The Kernel Janitors
User-Mode Linux
Don Becker's Ethernet Drivers Page
netdev mailing list archive
Linux-net mailing list archive
The Linux Kernel, by David A. Rusling
Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
Linux Kernel Hackers Guide
Each of these publications is annotated as to whether it is printed or Web-based and how frequently it is published.
The Linux Gazette
Ext2
The Linux Journal
If your LUG isn't listed here, send me email and I will add a link. Also, check out the list of every LUG in the world.
Boston Linux/UNIX Users Group
Metrowest Boston Linux User Group
Worcester Linux Users Group
Western Mass. Linux/Unix User's Group
New Hampshire Linux Users Group
New York Linux User's Groups
Connecticut Free Unix Group
Eastern Connecticut Linux Users Group
India Linux Users Group - Delhi
OpenSource.org
The Open Source FAQ
The Open Source Definition
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
Microsoft's Halloween Documents
O'Reilly OpenSource Convention:
Aug. 21-24, 1999

The Open Source Writers Group
CoSource.com
sourceXchange
The Free Software Bazaar
Conforming Licenses ...
The GNU General Public License
The BSD Unix License
The Artistic License
The Mozilla Public License
The Q Public License

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