Linux Page
This page is a collection of Linux related stuff in a broader sense. This
includes the OS proper, but also general tools (like GNU tools) and Linux
specific software and wee hacks.
Favourites
My favourite software:
Great tools:
Distributions
Distributions (see best Linux distros (2011), Top 7 Linux Distros (2014) (unusual selection)):
- DistroWatch/,
Linux ISO a collection of distribution images
- Red Hat strand:
-
Red Hat, main commercial distro
(Mirrors:
UK (FTP),
UK (FTP))
- CentOS, good server distro
- Fedora, OpenSource version of RedHat
- Linux Mandriva, good general purpose distro
(TCS mirror,
Mandrake (proxad),
Club,
Mandrake (Vienna),
Cooker (Münster),
Cooker (Graz);
search RPMs), easy-urpmi
- Mageia, a fork of Mandriva since 2010
-
Connectiva, merged with Mandrake into Mandriva
-
SuSe (RPM based)
(FTP download)
- OpenSUSE, good for Windows style desktop
- Debian strand:
- Slackware based:
- Arch, highly configurable, low resource distro (Wiki)
- Chakara, an Arch Linux derivate
- Gentoo Linux
(build-from-source, with a BSD-ish package manager)
- Slitaz, for old, low-spec hardware
- JoliCloud, distro with cloud integration
- ZipHam
a tiny Linux distrib, tailored for old PCs (min 4MB memory) and
for use as HAM radio server.
-
Linux From Scratch.
How to build your own Linux distribution.
- RTLinux
(Linux for embedded systems).
Distributors:
Kernel:
Packages of applications:
Documentation:
On-line magazines:
Multimedia:
Security:
Networking:
Monitoring:
Misc stuff (not checked, yet):
Old links (maybe out-of-date):
Zaurus
USB Card Readers:
Organisations
Global:
User groups
Eruopean GNU mirrors:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Ireland
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
Hans-Wolfgang Loidl <hwloidl@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
Last modified: Fri Jan 31 23:43:25 2014