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Basic Reference
Articles and News
Books
Linux Software
linux kernel security patch
(qmail and djbdns)
Places to get Linux for cheap
- Linux Central
- Cheapbytes
- LinuxCD.org
- Linux ISO.org
ISOs of many flavors for downloading - PC Tech 101
- LinuxTracker ISO Torrents
Linux Distributions
- RedHat (Enterprise Linux)
(updates for old unsupported RedHat/Fedora releases)
Free Distributions of RedHat Enterprise compiled from the source
Laptops
Wireless Networking
- Wireless Tools for Linux Home
- Oreilly wireless development center
- Recipe for a Linux 802.11b Home Network
- NoCat.net community 802.11b networking in Sonoma County
- BAWUG Bay Area Wireless Users Group
Hardware
Embedded Systems Hardware
Linux User Groups
- Linux User Group of Davis
- Bay Area Linux Users' Group
- Silicon Valley Linux Users' Group
- Mendocino County Linux Users' Group (Ukiah) - No site but they still exist, they tend to announce on our mailing list though.
- Bay Area Linux Events (the BALE)
- SuSE Support Forums
Other Local Groups
- BayLISA (Silicon Valley Systems Administration group)
- Sonoma County System Administrators
- North Coast Mac Users Group
- North Bay Ruby Users Group
- Sonoma County Perl Mongers
Emulators, non-emulators, Virtual Machines
- OpenVZ
- Xen
- KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
- Linux-VServer
- VirtualBox
- VMWare
- Wine
- User-mode Linux
- Win4Lin
- Cooperative Linux
- FreeVPS
- Plex86
- Cygwin (unix for windows)
Remote Display Programs
Distributed Processing Projects
- Distributed.net, encryption cracking
- BOINC
- Seti@Home, help find E.T.
- Folding@Home, help understand protein folding
- Mersenne Primes, find Mersenne numbers
- Einstein@Home, search for pulsars
- Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects, many more projects
GPG: The GNU Privacy Guard (openPGP)
- GnuPG
- MIT PGP Public Key Server
- OpenPGP
Public Key Server - the public keyserver at pgp.dtype.org - A little rough but look around it's usfull
Miscellaneous
- Linux Chix Linux mailing list geared towards women
This page last updated August 14th, 2009 by Nat Welch & FrankB
