Page Index
- User’s Pages
- Chat Clients
- Google is your friend
- Linux Forums
- Eric S. Raymond Points
- Linux Advocacy
- Linux Distributions
- Download Distribution ISO’s
- Download Live CD ISO’s
- Purchase Linux CD’s
- Linux Documentation
- CSS Styles
- Bash Scripting
User’s Pages
Chat Clients
Gui Clients
- Pidgin
“Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.” “Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.” Be sure to get the Pidgin plugins.
Text Clients
- Zinc
“What is Zinc? Zinc stands for Zinc Is Not Cur(fl|ph)oo. Zinc is a Yahoo! console chat client for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X. Zinc is written in Python and released under GPL. Zinc originally started out as a code fork of Curphoo 0.3.7 but it has been completely rewritten since then. Currently there is absolutely no Curphoo source code in Zinc.”
Zinc RC (Config) Documentation
Google is your friend
- About Google
- Google linux
“Search for all things Linux on Google”
“Everything you wanted to know about Google”
Forums
- linuxforum.com
- linuxforums.org
- linuxquestions.org
- Google linux forums
“Linux Forum: Linux Forums, Linux Help, Linux Operating System, Free Linux, Linux Commands, Linux Download”
“Welcome to Linux Forums Dot Org. We are a lively community website dedicated to help with GNU Linux. Everyone is welcome to participate within the “newbie friendly” Linux Forums and to use the other essential resources Linux Tutorials, a Linux IRC Channel and much more!”
“Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org. You can visit our forum where Linux newbies can ask questions and Linux experts can offer advice. Topics include security, installation, networking and much more. Feel free to browse the board, perform a search, view the man pages online or view the index. If you would like to post you must be a member. We also have a new archive online.”
“Google Search for “linux forums”"
Eric S. Raymond Points
- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Smart Questions: “In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to ask questions in a way that is likely to get you a satisfactory answer. “No Grovelling: “Some people who get that they shouldn’t behave rudely or arrogantly, demanding an answer, retreat to the opposite extreme of grovelling. “I know I’m just a pathetic newbie loser, but…”. This is distracting and unhelpful. It’s especially annoying when it’s coupled with vagueness about the actual problem.” “Don’t waste your time, or ours, on crude primate politics. Instead, present the background facts and your question as clearly as you can. That is a better way to position yourself than by grovelling. “Howto Answer: “While just muttering RTFM is sometimes justified when replying to someone who is just a lazy slob, a pointer to documentation (even if it’s just a suggestion to Google for a key phrase) is better.”
Linux Advocacy
- Linux Advocacy
“The urge to advocate the use of Linux is widely felt. When you find something that works well, you want to tell as many people as you can. LUGs’ role in Linux advocacy cannot be overestimated, especially since wide-scale commercial acceptance of Linux is only newly underway. While it is certainly beneficial to the Linux movement, each and every time a computer journalist writes a positive review of Linux, it is also beneficial every time satisfied Linux users brief their friends, colleagues, employees, or employers.”
Linux Distributions
- Arch Linux
- Debian
- DreamLinux
- Fedora
- Linux Mint
- Mandriva
- OpenSuse
- PCLinuxOS
- Slackware
- Ubuntu
“Arch provides a minimal environment upon installation, (no GUI), already compiled and optimized for i686/x86-64 architectures. Arch is lightweight, flexible and simple. Its design philosophy and implementation makes it easy to extend and mold into whatever kind of system you’re building- from a minimalist console machine to the most grandiose and feature rich desktop environments available.”
“Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux. Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 18733 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.”
“Dreamlinux is a Brazilian distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux. A live CD with a graphical hard disk installation option, it boots directly into an Xfce or GNOME desktops which provide access to a good collection of desktop applications and a central control panel for system configuration.”
“Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join.”
“Originally launched as a variant of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs, it has now developed into one of the most user-friendly distributions on the market – complete with a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, a web-based package installation interface, and a number of different editions. Perhaps most importantly, this is one project where the developers and users are in constant interaction, resulting in dramatic, user-driven improvements with every new release.”
“Mandriva users from all over the world gather into community spaces to share their interest in new Linux technologies. They help new users get comfortable with Linux basics, providing hints and tips, or telling the tales of ancient Unix commands. This gathering of various different people in a community of passion is what makes Linux and the Mandriva community so unique since the inception of our distribution in 1998.”
“The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. The program provides free and easy access to openSUSE. Here you can find and join a community of users and developers, who all have the same goal in mind to create and distribute the world’s most usable Linux. openSUSE also provides the base for Novell’s award-winning SUSE Linux Enterprise products.”
“PCLinuxOS is distributed as a LiveCD, and can also be installed to a local hard drive. LiveCD mode lets you try it without making any changes to your computer. If you like it, you can install it to your hard drive. Locally installed versions of PCLinuxOS utilize the Advanced Packaging Tool (or APT), a package management system (originally from the Debian distribution), together with Synaptic, a GUI frontend to APT.”
“That’s right, the first 2.6(.21.5) based Slackware 12.0 release is ready for download! We think you’ll enjoy the latest kernel, KDE 3.5.7, XFce 4.4.1, HAL automounting for desktop users, an updated toolchain, and many other enhancements. The official announcement has more details. Also, consider supporting the project at http://store.slackware.com. Thanks to everyone who contributed improvements and fixes this time — a lot of help made this a relatively smooth release. Thanks, and enjoy! Pat and the Slackware team”
“Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.”
Download Distribution ISO’s
- distrowatch
“The DistroWatch web site was first published on 31 May 2001. The concept started as a very simple table comprising of 5 major distributions and the chart only compared a few features (price, version, release date) and a few package versions (Kernel, KDE, Gnome, XFree86, Apache). Trying to make it slightly more comprehensive and useful (and failing to find anything similar and up-to-date on the Internet), I have kept adding more distributions, features and packages until the table reached fairly reasonable state in terms of information provided. At that stage, I decided to share the table with the Linux community worldwide and moved it from a spreadsheet into an html document. The page was first mentioned on LinuxToday and on many other sites around the world.”
Download Live CD ISO’s
- Knoppix
- SLAX
- Table of Live CD’s
- osdisc.com
“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.”
“Slax is a modern, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators. The modular approach gives you the ability to include any other software in Slax easily. If you’re missing your favourite text editor, networking tool or game, simply download a module with the software and copy it to Slax, no need to install, no need to configure.”
“A list of all available LiveCDs and LiveDVDs.”
“Listing of LiveCD’s”
Purchase Linux CD’s
- osdisc.com
- cheapbytes
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Linux Documentation
- The Linux Doc Project – Howto’s
“The Linux Documentation Project – Categorized List of HOWTOs”
CSS Styles
- w3.org
- w3schools.com
- htmlhelp.com
- pageresource.com
“Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. Tutorials, books, mailing lists for users, etc. can be found on the “learning CSS” page. For background information on style sheets, see the Web style sheets page. Discussions about CSS are carried out on the (archived) www-style@w3.org mailing list and on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets.”
“At W3Schools, you can study everything you need to learn, in an accessible and handy format.”
“Change the appearance of hundreds of Web pages by changing just one file… Influence presentation without losing visitors… All with the power and flexibility of Web style sheets.”
“Cascading Style Sheets Tutorials”
Bash Scripting
- Intro to Bash Scripting
- Advanced Bash Scripting
“Familiarity with GNU/Linux command lines, and familiarity with basic programming concepts is helpful. While this is not a programming introduction, it explains (or at least tries) many basic concepts.”
“The shell is a command interpreter. More than just the insulating layer between the operating system kernel and the user, it’s also a fairly powerful programming language. A shell program, called a script, is an easy-to-use tool for building applications by “gluing” together system calls, tools, utilities, and compiled binaries. Virtually the entire repertoire of UNIX commands, utilities, and tools is available for invocation by a shell script. If that were not enough, internal shell commands, such as testing and loop constructs, give additional power and flexibility to scripts. Shell scripts lend themselves exceptionally well to administrative system tasks and other routine repetitive jobs not requiring the bells and whistles of a full-blown tightly structured programming language.”
