Linux Documentation Project Home Page
Linux is a complete, copylefted UNIX clone for Intel
386/486/Pentium machines. It includes Emacs, X11R6, gcc,
TeX/LaTeX, groff, TCP/IP, SLIP, UUCP, the works. Here's
everything you ever wanted to know about Linux but were afraid to ask.
General |
HOWTOs |
Manuals |
Devel |
Products |
User Groups |
Links |
FTP |
LJ |
Other |
Comments |
Mirrors
Last Modified on 26 June 1995
News
Important: If you are accessing these pages from a site
other than sunsite.unc.edu,
they are mirrored from there. Here is a list of
mirrors of the LDP WWW pages.
You can retrieve all of the Linux-related documents here via anonymous FTP
from Sunsite or one
of its many mirrors.
WWW site admins: You can now mirror the LDP WWW pages via FTP
for distribution on other sites. Configure your FTP mirroring software
to download the tree sunsite.unc.edu:/mdw, user linuxdoc, password linuxdoc.
If you set up such a mirror, let me know.
Suggestions welcome! Mail your comments and ideas to
the Linux Home Page maintainer here.
What's new? Any links marked with 
are
new or changed within a week of the last update to this page (date
given above). This excludes HOWTOs, which are updated separately.
General Information
Linux HOWTOs
The Linux HOWTO documents each give tutorials and information on various
features of the system. You can also FTP these documents from
here.
The following mini-HOWTOs are available:
Also available:
Linux Documentation Project Manuals
As time goes on this list will expand. latex2html
is used to convert these documents. The output is not quite perfect;
sooner or later we'll find the time to tailor for HTML production.
Development Projects
The following links point to Linux-related development projects.
This does not include commercial software development, which is
listed below
Products, Companies, and Organizations
Here are links to commercial sites which carry Linux-related products
and information, including hardware, software, and books.
Please mail me if you have links to
add to this list.
- Running
Linux is a new book from
O'Reilly and
Associates, Inc.. It's over 600 pages, telling you how to get
the most out of Linux. Here is the
release
announcement from O'Reilly.
- O'Reilly has also published Olaf Kirch's
Linux Network
Administrator's Guide. This is a revised and beautified version
of the manual from the LDP.
- The XFree86 Project, Inc. is a
non-profit organization maintaining a free port of the X Window System to
Linux and other Intel-based UNIX platforms. Benchmarks for XFree86 are found here.
- The ACC Bookstore distributes
many Linux-related products, CD-ROMs, books, and more.
- SSC, Inc. are publishers
of Linux Journal and
sell many Linux-related products.
- InfoMagic, Inc., producers
of the Linux Developer's Resource CD-ROM set, and other Linux material.
- S.u.S.E. GmbH, a German
distributer of Linux software and books.
- Morse Telecommunications,
producer of the Slackware Pro CD-ROM.
- Walnut Creek, makers of the
Toolkit for Linux CD-ROM set.
- Caldera, Inc. is the producer
of the Caldera Network Desktop system, based on the Linux kernel.
- Red Hat Software is the producer
of Red Hat Commercial Linux, a new Linux distribution.
- Pacific HiTech, producer of the
Linux Runtime system, and vendor of the Linux Developer's 2-CD set.
- Fintronic USA,
a company which sells workstations pre-installed with Linux.
- Yggdrasil Computing, Inc.,
producers of the Plug & Play Linux CD-ROM.
- Linux International,
a non-profit organization supporting Linux development.
- Delix Computer GmbH, producer of the
DLD - Deutsche Linux Distribution.
- Mazama Software Labs, Inc. produces
Linux-based Internet software, such as Mazama Packet Filter, an IP
filter (firewall) for Linux.
User Groups
Links to Linux-related user groups, all over the world.
Mail me if you want your site added to this list.
Links
The following links point to other pages with general Linux
information, or WWW servers running on Linux systems.
Downloading the Software
Once you've read the above documents, you're ready to download
the Linux software, right? Here are pointers to several Linux FTP sites.
Note that use of FTP over the Web can be somewhat wasteful; use sparingly.
Linux Journal
Linux Journal is the monthly magazine for and about the Linux
community. It is published by SSC, Inc..
A number of Linux activists write for LJ. Article subjects range
from novice questions and answers to kernel programming.
Other Documents
Comments
Please send me comments and suggestions for the Linux HTML pages,
either by sending e-mail to the address below, or through the
forms interface here.
Share and enjoy!
Matt Welsh,
mdw@sunsite.unc.edu
General |
HOWTOs |
Manuals |
Devel |
Products |
User Groups |
Links |
FTP |
LJ |
Other |
Comments |
Mirrors
SunSITE home page.
SunSITE is made possible by Sun Microsystems and Cicso Systems, Inc.
Press RETURN to finish