Operating Systems

Growing article, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]

Why he uses NetBSD, advantages and disadvantages of the OS vs. other OS's, and a number of useful how-to's on NetBSD.

Details of OpenBSD powering a high profile site.

An interactive webpage to explore crontab timing expressions in safety.

Strong cryptographic software, libraries, and information about cryptography, data security, and privacy.

Run selected commands as root, with the users' own password. Allows the administrator to grant limited root privileges to a subset of users, without giving out the root password.

Independently evaluates and certifies the level of trust that may be placed in IT security features.

A portable password cracker with built-in efficient implementations of multiple password hashing algorithms found on various Unix flavors.

Lists vulnerabilities, white papers and utilities.

A tool for file integrity checking that optionally can be used as a client/server application for centralized monitoring of networked hosts.

History and overview of the BAsh shell.

A guide for using ZSH. Including the original source and LaTeX and printable PDF version.

User interface development environment for C++ and is portable across X11 on all kinds of Unix. Create graphical, interactive user interfaces.

Articles and related links for Solaris and Unix administrators including solaris forum for problem discussion.

PatchReport or PatchReport for 2.7 is a Perl script to assist in the automation of Solaris patch installation.

A webpage at UnixGuide.net about Tru64 UNIX.

Open Source software for Tru64 UNIX.

Makes: DR-DOS, compact, Y2K safe, good for embedded or thin-client systems, source code available, development kits, older and localized versions; and DRLX embedded Linux, load and run Linux programs from DR-DOS.

Goal: create free, documentation for the project, collaborate in all related issues, including How-to's and mini How-to's, hosting FreeDOS wiki.

A DOS based web browser and mail client created by IBM and marketed by third parties.

A collection of useful tools and utilities for the Lynx386 and Bobcat DOS text-based web browsers including a TSR for Mouse support, Trace Route, Telnet and MICQ, an ICQ client.

Details and example concerning TCP/IP and how to implement it and use it on a computer running MS-DOS.

A utility to sort Windows' long filenames on a disk.

An open source mouse driver for DOS. It's completely written in assembly for speed and small memory footprint. (Included with FreeDOS; works with others.)

BALSA email client

Contact manager, address manager and calendar for Gnome.

Previously known as KMySql, KSql is a KDE database client.

A Toolkit for Oracle to perform Oracle Administrative Tasks in KDE.

A KDE program to compile sources packages without the xterm or console.

The KDE Application Generator. Generates the basic directory and file structure for a KDE development project.

A programming language for KDE.

Information Page for KDE 2.1.1 that provides change documentation, faqs and important information for upgraders from previous versions.

Automatic cheating system for Linux and Linux-like OS's

A free Warlords clone for MacOS X, BeOS, Linux and Windows. (Open Source)

A Short description on how to setup Release 3 of KDE on a NetBSD box with optional antialiased truetype fonts.

A KDE2 application for operating comfortable with the communication hardware SCS PTC-II ( or PTC-IIe, PTC-IIpro).

A client manager for wireless LAN-cards that tries to clone the "Client Manager" from Lucent Technologies, Inc. It provides information about your access point, connection quality and other stuff.

A program to chat with KDE in LAN's. A windows version is planned, too.

Allows you to load an existing image map from an HTML file, edit it, and save the new map to a new HTML file, that includes the appropriate image tag.

Creator of Tb/KTb. Tb stands for Tree Browser. Its main strength is the algorithm used in displaying the file hierarchy. The result can be printed on a postscript printer. The program uses the XView library.

Creator of the KDE-Tool Kleds V0.1. This tool hopefully supports users of keyboards without LED's, showing the state of the keyboard indicators (NumLock, CapsLock and ScrollLock) in the KDE-Panel.

Some applications and other development for KDE. Kaboodle is a simple KMedia (aRts) player for KDE, Hayes playlist, other apps.

A PGP shell for KDE, previously called kPGPShell.

Calendar and appointment manager.

A Linux KDE napster client clone.

A universal graphical front-end for command line programs. Provides examples, description and Source downloads.

A couple of prepared mouse gesture collections you can import into KHotKeys.

A KDE front-end to ssh.

A collection of programs for IceWM.

Positive account of introducing some total computer novices to GNU/Linux, with about 100 forum comments. First of 2 parts. [OSNews.com]