Operating Systems

Written by two Debian developers, covers the administration of the operating system.

Seattle Federal judge refuses request by Lindows to dismiss Microsoft trademark case against it, paving way for April trial. Jury now set to decide if Microsoft has right to word 'windows' in some cases, or if it is generic term. [CNET News.com]

Discussion of discrepancies between boxed and ISO versions, installation options, and included applications.

Red Hat Linux operating system review: as the best known and most widely available Linux, it's right for a wide range of corporate and home uses.

Detailed tutorial written for new users about installation using the FTP method.

Embedded Linux/Microcontroller Project, a port of GNU/Linux for various microcontrollers and microprocessors. General information along with related projects, CVS repository and a download section.

An OpenWrt distribution which aims to be easy to use through a simplified Web interface. Documentation, screenshots, support forum.

A tiny floppy distribution of Linux, set to fit on one floppy disk that is able to provide new Linux users with low-end machines (386) very useful set of networking related binaries and firewall tools.

Fits one floppy, supports many filesystems: 23, with all needed disklabels and broad write support: read-write-backup files from IDE, SCSI drives with many partition types: Apple, NTFS, VFAT, EXT2/3, RaiserFS. Useful for file/disk rescue.

Tips, tutorials and articles about Ubuntu Linux.

A guide on using Linux on the Sony VAIO Z505HE/HS/JE/JS.

Installing Linux on a Sony Vaio Z505SX notebook

Provides powerful Linux laptops. New as well as refurbished laptops are sold.

Out with the old Sequent servers, in with Linux.

A project to port Linux to the Psion Series 5, Series 5mx, Series 7, NetBook and closely related machines.

A ext2 filesystem resizer utility.

Discussion of medical billing software for Linux.

A secure Linux distribution managed through a web-interface. It turns an old PC into a firewall and VPN gateway. Features an Intrusion Detection System.

A developer of Open Source desktop productivity applications, including AbiWord, a word processor.

Mailing list for porting astronomical software to Linux.

Software system for the reduction and analysis of astronomical data.

GNU/Linux Users Group of Mumbai city, the financial capital of India and the second most populous city in the world. Site contains a wiki, mailing list, monthly meetings and a picture gallery.

Includes services and information, background, usergroups, sponsors, projects, and links to local suppliers.

A multi-protocol IM client for OS X; supports the six most popular instant messaging services as well as IRC chatting. No longer being developed.

Offers secure transfers, drag-and-drop, bookmarks, multi-threading, and transfer resume. Donationware for OS X 10.2 or higher. Includes feature list and free download.

Another service by AOL Time Warner also includes its own browser.

A Gecko-based web browser for PowerPC-based Macintosh systems.

A MySQL GUI for Mac OS X.

Guides on Mac OS X security and hacking, plus a large and helpful community.

Picture viewer, slide show and photo editing software with a file browser and basic word processor. It has print templates, screen capture to image or PDF, system information and a moviemaker.

Decode and transmit Morse code, RTTY/FAX/SSTV/PACKET/ACARS/PSK31/ALE, and other modes on the Macintosh, without any extra hardware.

Maker of iClip, a multi clipboard/scrapbook utility for Mac OS X and iScooper, an image autodownloader and viewer which can import pictures from the hard drive as well. Will only download images that do not link to anything else.

Copy files into a set of folders named by date. Selective copying is possible, and several date-based organizations are offered. Full manual, and screen shots.

A Macintosh based, fully automated, secure data backup and recovery service done via the Internet.

NetBSD port to NeXT hardware and project page. Works on all 68040 non-ADB models.

A useful collection of information for working with and around NeXT boxes. Includes many FAQs, schematics and some interesting power supply fixes.

FTP collection which includes mirrors of old ftp.next.com and NeXTAnswers sites, patches, documentations and tones of rare files for NeXT not available at other major FTP archives (ie. peak, peanuts).

Help for NeXT OS users.

Discusses the steps to take to deploy WSH as the tool for developing NT logon scripts. By Bob Wells, Windows NT Magazine.

Offers, links to mailing list, forums, updated modules, news, user groups, and themes for LiteStep users.

MinuteMan Systems publishes software for project management, cost estimating, planning, scheduling and Pert and Gantt charting.

Author of Financial Freedom Billing Manager, and Financial Freedom Inventory programs, invoice and billing software for all versions of Windows.

Print envelopes and labels quickly and easily. Compose documents, then print, fax or email them. Includes editing, mail list management, graphics support. For all versions of Windows.

The complete inter-active relational database, ready made to manage all correspondence and financial affairs at home and in the office.

Software designed to connect Visual Basic to various databases like Oracle, MS SQL Server and Jet. With a few entries, design a database client using the new ADO technology. [Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000]

A database application development environment. Applications can be installed, unchanged in single-user, Internet (ASP), LAN/WAN configurations. Supports all commercial ODBC databases.

Consists of database builder and database organizer, and allows individuals, small businesses, and corporations to organize and manage virtually any kind of information. [Win 95/98/Me/NT]

Software to create a relational database on any topic without programming. Single user or multi user. Convert a database to a web site with one click. [Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000]

Offers a visual help authoring tool for creating CHM, HTML, and PDF help documents. Includes a free trial and order form.

Developer of a line of text editors. Fully functional evaluation copies are available for download.