This is a brief 4 page guide to the world of Linux distributions, primarily aimed at individuals who are new to the Linux scene, and who are thinking about taking the plunge and trying Linux for the first time. hot
An essential compendium of key linux terms, personalities and more. Contributions from the Linux community are appreciated and incorporated into the guide. hot
This collection of articles aim to dispel the myth that Linux isn't really ready for the desktop user seeking to move away from the Microsoft world. If you are thinking about switching from Windows to Linux, bear in mind that many of your favorite desktop applications have Linux equivalents, often with a comparable feature set. hot
by Matt Welsh, Lar Kaufman, Matthias K. Dalheimer, Terry Dawson: A guide showing users and programmers how to install, maintain, and network Linux, a free clone of the UNIX operating system that runs on a personal computer. Includes a short introduction to UNIX; a discussion of system administration and network administration; tools users need to run the system; and complete instructions for installing and configuring Version 3.1 of XFree86. hot
by Mark Minasi, Dan York: an essential resource for anyone working in the real world of enterprise computing. Inside, renowned Windows expert Mark Minasi and Linux guru Dan York give you practical, in-depth Linux instruction that dovetails perfectly with what you already know about Windows hot
by Zamil Janmohamed, Clara Liu, Drew Bradstock, Raul F. Chong, Michael Gao, Fraser McArthur, Paul Yip: IBM's definitive guide to writing DB2 SQL PL stored procedures, triggers, UDFs, and dynamic compound SQL. It has been fully updated to reflect the entire DB2 UDB product family, and new SQL PL improvements for Windows, UNIX, Linux, iSeries, and zSeries hot
by MySQL AB: Written by the creators of MySQL and edited by one of the most highly respected MySQL authors, the MySQL Administrator's Guide and Language Reference is the official guide to installing MySQL, to setting up and administering MySQL databases, and to storing and retrieving data in these databases. hot
by Rickford Grant: for any home user who has switched or is thinking of switching to Linux. Based on Red Hat's Fedora Core, Linux For Non-Geeks avoids geeky subjects like server and network setup and concentrates on the subjects of interest to the average home user: Installation, the Internet, playing CDs and audio files, desktop customization, games, downloading software and fonts, USB storage devices, printing, and more hot
by Christopher Negus: The Fedora 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible gives clear thorough instructions for the basic user and administrator skills needed to master the latest version of Fedora and RHEL. The book includes: step-by-step instructions for making Linux installation simple and painless; how to take advantage of the desktop interface (including coverage of AIGL and XGL); how to use the Linux shell, file system, and text editor; key system administration skills including setting up users, automating system tasks, backing up and restoring files, and understanding the latest security issues and threats; using and customizing the desktop menus, icons, window manager, and xterm; and, how to create and publish formatted documents with Linux applications. hot
by Christopher Negus: an indispensable resource for Fedora users who must now work without customer support from Red Hat, Inc., covering critical troubleshooting techniques for networks, internal servers, and external servers hot
by Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Corey Burger, Jonathan Jesse, Ivan Krstic: Written by leading Ubuntu community members, this is the only book that you need to become a savvy Ubuntu user. hot
by Mark G. Sobell: Renowned Linux expert Mark Sobell has brought together comprehensive, insightful guidance on the tools system administrators, developers, and power users need most, and an outstanding day-to-day reference, both in the same book. This book is 100 percent distribution and release agnostic: You can use it on any Linux system, now and for years to come. What?s more, it?s packed with hundreds of high-quality examples: better examples than you?ll find in any other Linux guidebook. hot
in 1,500 pages of tiny print, this heavy-duty tome documents every command, utility, file system, library function, and administration tool in the operating system. Linux also features a detailed kernel reference guide and a good index. hot
by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman: Updated to cover version 2.4.x of the Linux kernel, the second edition of Linux Device Drivers remains the best general-purpose, paper-bound guide for programmers wishing to make hardware devices work under the world's most popular open-source operating system. hot
by Robert Love: details the design and implementation of the Linux kernel, presenting the content in a manner that is beneficial to those writing and developing kernel code. While the book discusses topics that are theoretical, it does so with the goal of assisting programmers so they better understand the topics and become more efficient and productive in their coding hot
by Michael Kosta Loukides, Andy Oram, Mike Loukides, Andrew Oram: this book and CD combination is a complete package for programmers who are new to UNIX or who would like to make better use of the system. tents include GNU Emacs, gcc, C and C++ libraries, gdb, RCS, and make hot
by Michael K. Johnson, Erik W. Troan: practical reference guides programmers developing Linux applications or porting applications from other platforms. hot
by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie: presents a complete guide to ANSI standard C language programming. Written by the developers of C, this new version helps readers keep up with the finalized ANSI standard for C while showing how to take advantage of C's rich set of operators, economy of expression, improved control flow, and data structures hot
by Bjarne Stroustrup: in this brand-new third edition of The C++ Programming Language, author Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, presents the full specification for the C++ language and standard library hot
by Sriram Srinivasan: covers complex techniques for managing production-ready Perl programs and explains methods for manipulating data and objects that may have looked like magic before. It gives you necessary background for dealing with networks, databases, and GUIs, and includes a discussion of internals to help you program more efficiently, and imbed Perl within C when necessary hot
by Larry Wall (Editor), Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Christiansen, Stephen Potter: the book covers everything from basic control statements to regular expressions to using objects and interfacing with other languages (2nd edition) hot
by Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Aaron Weber, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins: Now in its fifth edition, Linux in a Nutshell brings users up-to-date with the current state of Linux. Considered by many to be the most complete and authoritative command reference for Linux available, the book covers all substantial user, programming, administration, and networking commands for the most common Linux distributions. hot
by Ed Bailey: The complete reference for the RPM software package that is the heart of the Red Hat Linux distribution. Designed for both the novice and advanced users, Maximum RPM enables anyone to take full advantage of the benefits of building software packages with the Red Hat Packagemanagement tools to ensure that they install simply and accurately each and every time hot
OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice(tm) productivity suite. Read morehot
The X.Org Foundation is a Delaware registered LLC, seeking to act as a scientific charity under the IRS 501(c)(3) code. Its mission is to maintain and enhance the existing X Window System code base, engineering appropriate enhancements that will be driven by current and future market requirements. The X.Org Foundation will periodically provide official X Window System update releases to the general public free of charge. Read morehot
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with more than 18,000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine. Debian will run on almost all personal computers, including most older models. Each new release of Debian generally supports a larger number of computer architectures. Debian is produced by almost a thousand active developers spread around the world who volunteer in their spare time. Read morehot
The Fedora Project is an open source project sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the Fedora community. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc. The Fedora Project announces a new major release of Fedora Core every four to six months. Read morehot
A special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo Linux can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else -- whatever you need it to be. Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo Linux a metadistribution. Read morehot
Mandriva Linux, formerly known as Mandrake Linux, is a friendly Linux Operating System which specializes in ease-of-use for both servers and the home/office. It is freely available in many languages throughout the world. The Mandriva Linux PowerPack contains more than 2300 high-quality applications including a complete Office Suite of programs, plus installation support, for a cost of approximately 10 times less than the equivalent Microsoft Windows + MS Office cost, which comes without any technical support. Read morehot
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the leading platform for open source computing. It is sold by subscription, delivers continuous value and is certified by top enterprise hardware and software vendors. From the desktop to the datacenter, Enterprise Linux couples the innovation of open source technology and the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. Read morehot
The Official Release of Slackware Linux by Patrick Volkerding is an advanced Linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power, Slackware brings the best of all worlds to the table. Slackware Linux is a complete 32-bit multitasking "UNIX-like" system.i It's currently based around the 2.4 Linux kernel series and the GNU C Library version 2.3.4 (libc6). It contains an easy to use installation program, extensive online documentation, and a menu-driven package system. Read morehot
SuSE Linux Professional delivers the features you need most for home computing and networking. SUSE LINUX Professional also includes more than 1,000 of the world's leading open source applications. From established solutions like Firefox and OpenOffice.org to "first looks" at emerging technologies like Beagle and Xen. Read morehot
A Linux distribution that starts with the breadth of Debian and adds regular releases (every six months), a clear focus on the user and usability (it should "Just Work", TM) and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of support for every release. Ubuntu ships with the latest Gnome release as well as a selection of server and desktop software that makes for a comfortable desktop experience off a single installation CD. Read morehot
Xandros Desktop OS is built on top of Debian Linux with an enhanced version of the KDE desktop, Xandros Desktop machines peacefully co-exist and inter-operate with Windows desktop and server systems. Its intuitive graphical environment simplifies the transition from using a Windows computer, and the ability to run popular Windows productivity software, such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop make the transition even easier. Read morehot
"The most Linux on one floppy disk."
rescue/panic/emergency diskette,
or shirt-pocket Linux toolkit. It's goal iscontain as much stuff as possible on 1 floppy disk, keep it self contained, build under itself, and try to make it behave like a normal system.
rescue and recovery functions get priority hot
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it. Read morehot
MEPIS Linux is a desktop Linux system that is also easy to configure as a dedicated server. It is designed for both personal and business purposes. It includes cutting-edge features such as a live/installation/recovery CD, automatic hardware configuration, NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power management, WiFi support, anti-aliased TrueType fonts, a personal firewall, KDE, and much more. Read morehot
Morphix is built from the existing Knoppix and Debian GNU/Linux distributions. But Morphix is modular; this means that it consists of a number of parts which together form a working distribution. hot
DSL was originally developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50MB live CD. It was at first just a personal tool/toy. But over time Damn Small Linux grew into a community project with hundreds of development hours put into refinements including a fully automated remote and local application installation system and a very versatile backup and restore system which may be used with any writable media including a hard drive, a floppy drive, or a USB device. hot
Puppy Linux boots into a 48 - 54M ramdisk, from a USB keychain disk drive, Compact Flash, Hard Drive, Zip Drive, Floppy, Network/Thin Client, CD-ROM or Mini-CD. No more distributions that only support a single boot media, puppy boots from 'em all. Read morehot
developerWorks is a free on-line resource for tools, code, tips, education,
on-line tutorials and more. The site is for developers with focus on world-wide open standards and cross-platform technologies such as Java, XML, Linux, Security, Web, Unicode and Open-Source. Get relevant information from both industry-leading sources as well as tapping in to the
knowledge of the IBM technical community. hot
LDP is a loosely knit team of volunteers who provide documentation for many aspects of Linux. There are several forms of documentation: Guides, HOWTOs, man pages, and FAQs. hot
This version of PicoDrive is another enhanced version of Dave's Megadrive / Genesis emulator for Pocket PC. The original Dave's code was
heavily modified (including Cyclone core), parts of it were rewritten in
asm, many features added, accuracy increased. This version is aimed at ARM-based handheld devices, so ports exist for GP2X handheld console, Symbian smartphones and PocketPC devices. Features include: Good compatibility, a modified Cyclone 68000 core with better compatibility, zipped ROMs and savestates, SRAM support, including serial SRAM, game screen rotation with many render modes, selectable frameskip, configurable keys and touchpad, and more. hot
(commercial) 11 Cities, 50 missions, a full voice track, new 3D models, real time lighting effects, It's taken almost 11 months but finally the full game and demo are here, an exclusive & updated version Payback has arrived on the GP2X. hot
GMenu2X is an alternative frontend for the gp2x. GMenu2X allows you to create direct links for your games & applications so that you can directly launch them without having to browse through all the filesystem manually, resulting in a better user experience. hot
Qt/Embedded provides you with all you need to create stunning graphical user interfaces for embedded devices. Qt/Embedded installs and runs with a very small memory footprint on any device running embedded Linux - without using X11. hot
(commercial) more than just a simple Notepad application, it is a serious editor that provides many tools that are convenient for programmers as well. Features syntax highlighting for PHP, SQL, HTML and C++, tabbed interface for having multiple documents open and a configurable interface hot
(commercial) an embedded version of our popular Kapital product for Linux. We've ported all the features that are useful and make sense for the Zaurus form factor as well as the ability to sync with Kapital 1.0 when it is available hot
attempts to build up a special version of the web browsing component of the KDE browser Konqueror (in particular its html rendering engine khtml and its io subsystem) hot
(commercial) WinConnect Z allows a Zaurus user to access their Windows desktop and applications remotely. It does this by establishing a connection to either a Windows 2000 Server or an XP Professional desktop across a network or over the Internet hot
Hancom Mobile Office is a complete productivity suite for
Linux-based PDA's or HPC. HancomMobileOffice brings
the power of the office suite to the increasingly popular
Linux-based PDAs. hot
(commercial) an enhanced replacement to the calendar included in the Zaurus. tkcCalendar includes the following features: Day/Week/Month/Year view modes, beam events, synchronization with desktop software is maintained, enhanced appointment information, repeatable events and more hot
ArgoUML is a powerful yet easy-to-use interactive, Java based graphical software design environment that supports the design, development and documentation of object-oriented software applications. Read morehot
Eclipse is an open-source software framework. In its default form it is a Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), comprising of the Java Development Tools (JDT) and compiler (ECJ). Users can extend its capabilities by installing plug-ins written for the Eclipse software framework Read morehot
Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. Read morehot
JBuilder is an integrated editor, debugger, compiler, visual designers, wizards, sample applications, tutorials, multimedia training, and support for the latest Java standards JBuilder makes learning Java easy. hot
NetBeans is an open source, modular IDE, written in Java. Currently it supports Java development, but its architecture lends itself to supporting other languages as well. Read morehot
(commercial) a set of industrial strength graphical components intended for Java developers. NetCharts Pro enables complete control over the graph presentation and behavior in a servlet or client-side Java application context hot
(commercial) Moneydance is a full-featured financial management application that includes features such as online banking, online bill payment, investment management, budget tracking, scheduled transactions, check printing, detailed graphs, reports, and much more. Read morehot
(commercial) MyBooks Professional (MBP) is a Java based double-entry, fully audited accounting system that conforms to the standards of GAAP and is modifiable, scalable, and portable. Read morehot
(commercial) Deep Shredder 9 Linux is the best Shredder for Linux computers with multiple processors or the new dual core processor. Deep Shredder 9 Linux works also fine on computers with one processor and one core, but cannot develop his full power there and is comparable to Shredder 9 Linux on those machines. You will also get the latest version of the Shredder user interface. Deep Shredder 9 Linux runs on all x86 computers with Linux and Java 1.4 or higher installed. hot
bluemarine is an application for supporting the digital photo workflow. It includes tools for managing, organizing, editing, and publishing photos. The latest releases also added support for GeoTagging. Read morehot
RSSOwl is a free RSS (0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0) newsreader written in Java programming language using SWT as fast graphic library. Features of RSSOwl include reading RSS or RDF newsfeeds in a comfortable tab folder, save newsfeeds in categories, export them to PDF / HTML or OPML, and view news in an internal browser. Read morehot
FreeMind is a mindmapping tool. This software enables the user to visualise ideas, projects, brainstorming, concepts, internet research, or any activity that benefits from having a structured overview. Read morehot
SpeedCrunch is a fast and compact calculator thatis designed to be controlled using the keyboard. There is support for a few built-in functions (with an autocomplete feature) as well as variables. Read morehot
The GNU Hurd is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). hot
Kernel Archives is the primary site for the Linux kernel source, but it has much more than just kernels - we have 20 GB of disk space set aside for mirroring the largest Linux-related software archives. hot
Thunderbird gives you a faster, safer, and more productive email experience. We designed Thunderbird to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail so you can get back to reading your mail. Read morehot
Perfect for students, DV camera owners, video enthusiasts or anyone exploring video editing - Avid Free DV software is an easy, free way to join the Avid family and test-drive the industry-standard editing interface used by more professionals than any other video editing solution. hot
DivX is a free codec offering built to play every version of DivX content ever created. An update of our core technology, the DivX codec also plugs into your existing video software so you can easily create high-quality DivX videos at a fraction of the original size. hot
the port of Linux to Silicon Graphics hardware. It currently supports all Indy models (R4400, R4600, or R5000 MIPSŪ CPUs). In the long term, we would like to see more extensive SGI platform support. Ports to newer hardware like O2(TM), OCTANE(TM), and Origin(TM), and even to old hardware like R3000 Indigo(TM) hot
Primary goals are: Create fully modularized sound driver which will support kerneld/kmod, Create new ALSA Kernel API which breaks most of limitations of current OSS API, Ensure compatibility with most binary OSS/Lite applications, Create ALSA Library (C,C++) and ALSA Manager hot
GGI aims at unifying the way applications access the user display by defining a generic abstraction of the notion of graphic display. GGI defines high-level abstraction of input sources and displays, with a small set of management functions and general drawing operations. In GGI, the abstraction of a display is called a visual, and the actual device to which a visual is bound is a target. Targets can be anything from an X11 window to a 10 meter wide multi screen display. The association of a visual and a target is done at runtime by GGI internals and the process is transparent to the application. hot
Linux Format covers Linux for desktop user, developers and professionals. Each issue comes full of reviews, features and tutorials on diverse topics. Our Hot Picks section highlight's the best new open source software every month, all of which is available on the covermounted CD ROM. DVD edition available. Worldwide subscriptions available. hot
Linux Journal, the premier Linux magazine, is dedicated to serving the Linux community and promoting the use of Linux worldwide. A monthly periodical, Linux Journal is currently celebrating its thirteenth year of publication. hot
A compilation of 80 of the best Linux security applications which help to protect the integrity of a system. For each application we have created its own portal page, providing a detailed description of the software, its features, with links to other relevant resources. hotnew
Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail newsletter on computer security and cryptography from Bruce Schneier (author of Applied Cryptography, inventor of Blowfish and Twofish, CTO and
founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., general crypto pundit and occasional crypto curmudgeon). hot
Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver: a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive. AMANDA uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Read morehot
Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Read morehot
ftape is a driver program that controls various low-cost tape drives that connect to the floppy controller. ftape is not a backup program as such; it is a device driver, which allows you to use your floppy tape drive. All versions of ftape are copyrighted under the GNU General Public License. hot
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager enables you to protect your organization?s data from failures and other errors by storing backup, archive, space management and bare-metal restore data, as well as compliance and disaster-recovery data in a hierarchy of offline storage. hot
KDat is a tar based tape archiver, that is designed to work with multiple archives on a single tape. KDat was inspired by two separate goals. The first, was to provide a nice, GUI front-end to tar that supported the fast selective extraction features of the dds2tar program. The second goal was to answer my wife's question, "How much longer is it going to be backing up?!?". hot
Mondo Rescue is a GPL disaster recovery solution. It supports Linux (i386, x86_64, ia64) and FreeBSD (i386). It's packaged for multiple distributions (RedHat, RHEL, SuSE, SLES, Mandriva, Debian, Gentoo). It supports tapes, disks, network and CD/DVD as backup media, multiple filesystems, LVM, software and hardware Raid. Mondo is in use by Lockheed-Martin, Nortel Networks, Siemens, HP (US and France), IBM, NASA's JPL, the US Dept of Agriculture, dozens of smaller companies, and tens of thousands of users. hot
Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents (toc-file). Features include: Full control over length and contents of pre-gaps (pause areas between tracks), Control over sub-channel data, Support for exact audio, data and mixed mode CD copying, Support for exact audio, data and mixed mode CD copying. hot
Allows the creation of both audio and data CDs. Writes in TAO and DAO mode. Cdrecord supports all SCSI-3/mmc and ATAPI/mmc compliant drives as well as IDE/ATAPI, parallel-port, and SCSI drives. hot
A cd creation suite for Linux and FreeBSD (testers wanted!). Thought to be as user-friendly as possible it lets you create cd recordables with just a few simple mouse clicks. hot
(commercial) NeroLINUX is a flexible graphical application to assist in burning writable CDs and DVDs in many formats. It supports all types of internal and external recorders that are supported by the API of the established Nero application for Windows. It features kernel optimizations for both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, digital audio extraction, FreeDB support, and USB hotplugging. Video editing capabilities are not yet included. Read morehot
(commercial) Supports both a GUI and CLI interface. GEAR PRO for Linux offers full CD-R, CD-RW ,DVD-R and DVD-RAM recording and pre-mastering. GEAR supports most drives on the market. hot
K3b is a CD and DVD burning application for Linux systems optimized for KDE. It provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD. Read morehot
(commercial) developed by Lotus, Domino is a combines integrated collaborative functionality with Linux' low cost-of-deployment and high reliability benefits to enable organizations worldwide to gain access to powerful messaging, knowledge management and Web application development capabilities hot
(commercial) The world most trusted relational database for applications ranging from business intelligence to e-business. The availability of DB2 Universal Database on Linux enables developers to combine the power of Linux with the performance and robustness of DB2. hot
(commercial) IBM Informix provides Linux developers with the full power of an SQL-based database engine, combined with the quality, configurability, and interoperability of the Linux operating system. hot
MaxDB is a heavy-duty, SAP-certified open source database for OLTP and OLAP usage which offers high reliability, availability, scalability and a very comprehensive feature set. It is targetted for large mySAP Business Suite environments and other applications that require maximum enterprise-level database functionality and complements the MySQL database server. hot
The MySQL database server is the world's most popular open source database. Over six million installations use MySQL to power high-volume Web sites and other critical business systems including industry-leaders like The Associated Press, Yahoo, NASA, Sabre Holdings and Suzuki. Read morehot
(commercial) Oracle Database 10g is the first database designed for enterprise grid computing, the most flexible and cost-effective way to manage enterprise information. It cuts costs of management while providing the highest possible quality of service. In addition to providing numerous quality and performance enhancements, Oracle Database 10g significantly reduces the costs of managing the IT environment, with a simplified install, greatly reduced configuration and management requirements, and automatic performance diagnosis and SQL tuning. These and other automated management capabilities help improve DBA and developer productivity and efficiency. hot
PostgreSQL is a highly-scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. With more than 15 years of development history, it is quickly becoming the de facto database for enterprise level open source solutions. Read morehot
JED is a freely available text editor for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and win9X/NT platforms. Although it is a powerful editor designed for use by programmers, its drop-down menu facility make it one of the friendliest text editors around. Hence it is ideal for composing simple email messages as well as editing complex programs in a variety of computer languages. JED makes extensive use of the S-Lang library, which endows it with a powerful S-Lang macro language. hot
The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. It features: Content sensitive major modes for a wide variety of file types, from plain text to source code to HTML files, Complete online documentation, including a tutorial for new users, Highly extensible through the Emacs Lisp language, Support for many languages and their scripts, including all the European ``Latin'' scripts, Russian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Lao, Ethiopian, and some Indian scripts and a large number of extensions which add other functionality. hot
XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system. It is protected under the GNU Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in particular GNU Emacs. Its emphasis is on modern graphical user interface support and an open software development model, similar to Linux. XEmacs has an active development community numbering in the hundreds, and runs on Windows 95 and NT, Linux and nearly every other version of Unix in existence. hot
gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Features include: Full support for internationalized text (UTF-8), Configurable syntax highlighting for various languages (C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Perl, etc.), Undo/Redo, with configurable levels, Loading files from remote locations, File reverting, Print and print preview support. Read morehot
SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations. Read morehot
Bluefish is a powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, but it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites. It has MDI support, multiple encodings support, and a customizable syntax highlighting based on Perl. Read morehot
Quanta Plus is designed for quick web development and is rapidly becoming a mature editor with a number of great features. Quanta is based on KDE so this means it is network transparent from any dialog or project. It can use not only FTP but other KDE KIO slaves from file dialogs or in project settings. Read morehot
Kate is a multi document editor, based on a rewritten version of the kwrite editing widget of KDE, offering all the features of that plus a bunch of its own. Kate has been been moved to the kdebase package, and is a builtin part of your favorite desktop since release 2.2.
Being a native KDE application, Kate is of course born with networking transparency, as well as it integrates with the outstanding features of KDE. Choose it for viewing HTML sources from konqueror, editing configuration files, writing new applications or any other text editing task. Read morehot
Cream is a free and easy-to-use configuration of the powerful and famous Vim text editor for both Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux. Cream includes all the features of Vim plus many custom utilities. A short list of features includes syntax highlighting, spell check, multi-file find/replace, bookmarking, function prototype popups, macros, auto-wrapping, reformatting, justification, time/date stamps, file explorer, completion, sorting, calendar, tag navigation, block commenting, Microsoft, Unix and Apple format text editing, virtually unlimited file sizes, 38 varieties of 8-bit, 2-byte, and Unicode support, single/multiple document modes, unlimited undo/redo, show invisible characters, word count, and more. Read morehot
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's useful whether you're already using vi or using a different editor. Users of Vim 5 should consider upgrading to Vim 6, which is greatly enhanced since Vim 5. hot
(commercial) A Macintosh emulator that uses no software from Apple Computer. It doesn't require Mac ROMs or a Mac System file. It primarily runs older Macintosh applications and doesn't yet run PowerPC Macintosh Applications on PCs. hot
Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Currently, Bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro or AMD64 CPU, including optional MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! instructions. hot
(commercial) Cedega allows Windows-based games to run on Linux, out-of-the-box, seamlessly and transparently. With Cedega, TransGaming does not require any access to a game's source code but, rather, runs the Windows executable on Linux. In simplified terms, Cedega loads a game's binary into memory on a Linux system and then dynamically links to code that provides an implementation of the Win32 APIs that the program is using. Read our detailed review. hot
(commercial) CrossOver Office allows you to install your favorite Windows productivity applications in Linux, without needing a Microsoft Operating System license. CrossOver includes an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing a Windows application simple and fast. hot
Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality, and a collection of tools, which provide Linux look and feel. hot
DOSEMU stands for DOS Emulation, and is a linux application that enables the Linux OS to boot any DOS and run DOS programs - including DPMI applications. It has the ability to: virtualize all input/output and processor control instructions, support the word size and addressing modes of the iAPX86 processor family's "real mode," while still running within the full protected mode environment, to trap all DOS and BIOS system calls and emulate such calls as are necessary for proper operation and good performance, to simulate a hardware environment over which DOS programs are accustomed to having control, and to provide DOS services through native Linux services. hot
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. hot
ZSNES is a Super Nintendo emulator. On April 2, 2001 the ZSNES project was GPL'ed and its source released to the public. It currently runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and DOS. hot
(commercial) VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and IT professionals who want to streamline software development, testing and deployment in their enterprise. VMware Workstation allows users to run multiple x86-based operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and NetWare, and their applications simultaneously on a single PC in fully networked, portable virtual machines ? no hard drive partitioning or rebooting required. Read morehot
Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports. GnuCash is backed by an active development community and is blossoming into a full-fledged accounting system. Developed under the GPL. Read morehot
KMyMoney is striving to be a full-featured replacement for your Windows-based finance software. We are a full double-entry accounting software package, for personal or small-business use. Read morehot
The Market Analysis System (MAS) is an open-source software application that provides tools for analysis of financial markets using technical analysis. Some of the features of MAS are: Includes basic technical analysis indicators, such as Simple Moving Average, Exponential Moving Average, Stochastic, MACD, RSI, On Balance Volume, and Momentum, more advanced indicators, such as Standard Deviation, Slope of EMA of Volume, Slope of MACD Signal Line, Bollinger Bands, and Parabolic SAR. Users can also create new technical analysis indicators, including complex indicators based on existing indicators. MAS can be configured and run as a server that provides services for several clients at a time running on remote machines. hot
Nexuiz is a fast-paced, chaotic, and intense multiplayer first-person shooter game, focused on providing basic, old style deathmatch. It is extremely modder-friendly. Nexuiz is built on the power of the Darkplaces engine, which is a heavily modified version of the original Quake. Darkplaces features realtime lighting and stencil shadows, bumpmapping, gloss, bloom, and totally rewritten network code that supports up to 64 players on a single server. hot
(commercial) In Quake 4 you are Matthew Kane, an elite member of Rhino Squad and Earth's valiant invasion force. Fight alone, with your squad, and in hover tanks and mechanized walkers as you engage in a heroic mission into the heart of the Strogg war machine. But, in this epic war between worlds, the only way to defeat the Strogg is to become one of them. hot
True Combat is a modification to Quake III arena featuring scriptable mission objectives in maps, C4 and smoke grenades to your arsenal, realistic lens flares, glare, and flash blend effects. hot
(commercial) Unreal Tournament 2004 is a multiplayer first person shooter that combines the kill-or-be-killed experience of gladiatorial combat with cutting-edge technology. Ten game modes - both team-based and "every man for himself" -- provide even the most hardcore gamer with palm-sweating challenges through unbelievably detailed indoor arenas and vast outdoor environments. As the ultimate techno-gladiator of the future, players will take their fates into their hands, battling against up to 32 other players online in action-packed, frag-filled arenas. hot
(commercial) The Last Sorceror is a fast-action game where you are the leader of a powerful Order of Sorcerors. Having defeated mankind's greatest enemy, the Demon Hordes, you retreat to Haven for a life of peaceful seclusion. hot
Liquid War is a unique multiplayer wargame, for DOS, Windows and Linux, using Allegro . It is distributed as free software (free speech, not beer), protected by the GPL. hot
LTris as a tetris clone which means you have a bowl with blocks falling down. By rotating and moving the blocks you try to assemble whole lines which then disappear. LTris has three modes for this: Classic is the classical one where you play until the bowl becomes filled, Figures resets the bowl contents to a new figure for each level and adds suddenly appearing tiles and lines later on and Multiplayer where up to three players either controlled by human or CPU(!) compete and send completed lines to each other. hot
Crafty is a chess program written by Bob Hyatt. It is the "son" of Cray Blitz, winner of the 1983 and 1986 World Computer Chess Championships. Crafty is designed around bitboards (a 64-bit data structure) for reasons of speed of execution, ease of adding new knowledge, and a significantly cleaner overall design. hot
XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess. It displays a chessboard on the screen, accept moves made with the mouse, and load and save games in Portable Game Notation (PGN). It serves as a front-end for many different chess services, including: Chess engines that will run on your machine and play a game against you or help you analyze, such as GNU Chess, Crafty, or many others. Chess servers on the Internet, where you can connect to play chess with people from all over the world, watch other users play, or just hang out and chat. Correspondence chess played by electronic mail. The CMail program automates the tasks of parsing email from your opponent, playing his moves out on your board, and mailing your reply move after you've chosen it. hot
PySol is an exciting collection of more than 200 solitaire card games. Its features include support for lots of distinct games, very nice look and feel, multiple cardsets and table tiles, sound and background music, unlimited undo & redo, load & save games, player statistics and log files, hint system, demo games, support for user written plug-ins, integrated HTML help browser and lots of documentation. Among the supported games are classics like Aces Up, Baker's Game, Canfield, FreeCell, Forty Thieves, Golf, Klondike, Pyramid, Scorpion, Spider, Yukon, and many more... hot
Crossfire is an open source, cooperative multiplayer graphical RPG and adventure game. Since its initial release, Crossfire has grown to encompass over 150 monsters, about 3000 maps to explore, an elaborate magic system, 12 races, 15 character classes, a system of skills, and many artifacts and treasures. Crossfire is based in a medieval fantasy world and is similar to other games of this genre. hot
