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Softpanorama Links to 
OSS-related Educational Resources
 and Organizations

News

NewsNow Quality news headlines updated every 5 minutes every day

Google 

new and extremely interesting search engine. The greatest idea is that it ranks results by ``how many other pages link to this particular page.'' (Goggle importance) This is a great idea and that Google implemented first.

[June 14, 1999] Project Computer Bank -- a very interesting Australian project for giving 386 to poor people.

OSS-related organizations

• Study WEB -- a lot of decent links to educational resources

• [June 14, 1999] Project Computer Bank -- a very interesting Australian project for giving 386 to poor people.

• Open Resources

• NetAction

• httpwww.troubleshooters.comtpromag199904199904.htm

• SEUL - Simple End User Linux

  • seul-edu Homepage

• Project Independence

• www.feedmag.com
• The UNIX versus NT Organization
• Linux Center The Open Source model
• Freeware and related issues
• Linux Myth Dispeller --  By Kenneth R. Kinder
• Apache in the News
• The Hungry Programmers -- An international group of programmers that develop software for FreeBSD
• GNU's Not Unix! -- unofficial page

Open Content

• Amazon.com has a very good database of readers reviews.

• Slashdot -- signal/noise ratio is the problem. Reviews, stories, columns, news.

• TIME Digital - September 21, 1998 New Free License to Cover Content Online

• OpenContent.org

• nettime copylefting non-software information (fwd) flora.comnet-www1322

•  USENIX/LISA '97 (The SAGE System Administration conference) was held October 26 - 31, 1997 in San Diego, CA, and co-chaired by Celeste Stokely and Hal Pomeranz. Thanks to all the LISA '97 attendees and all the workers who made LISA '97 such a huge success! Conference Proceedings are available at the USENIX Online Library. USENIX members can view the full contents, abstracts are available to everyone. LISA Proceedings from the other USENIX/LISA conferences are also available to USENIX members.
• USENIX Association and the home of SAGE, the System Administrator's Guild. If you're a System Administrator, you should join SAGE!
• UniForum WWW Home Page

Linux Users Groups

• North Texas Linux Users Group Web Site

• LinuxHQ

• Victoria Linux Users Group --

• Welcome to TUX -- east coast USA Linux user groups

• The Tokyo Linux Users Group

• Suncoast Linux Group

• Open ReSource

Directories and other Information Services

• Open Directory Project -- great directory; redistributable

• Study WEB -- a lot of decent links to educational resources; non-redistributable

• Scout Select Bookmarks -- Subject Based Meta-Sites

Open Source Projects

• Andrew Consortium
• Arjuna Project
• Project Athena
• Debian Linux Project
• EXODUS Database Toolkit Project
• FreeBSD
• Geometry Center
• Project GINA
• GNU Project
• GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)
• Icon Project
• ISIS Project
• Kermit Consortium
• KDE
• Linux Documentation Project
• MALI (Memorie aux Langages Indeterministes)
• NCSA (National Center for Supercomputer Applications)
• Postgres Project
• Scorpion Project
• SR (Synchronizing Resources) Project
• World Wide Web Consortium
• Wine Project
• WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) Project
• X Consortium
• x-Kernel Project
• XFree86 Project
• Yale Haskell Project

Professional Societies

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• IEEE Computer Society
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• The UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems Professional and Technical Association (USENIX) and the System Administrators Guild (SAGE)
• Internet Society (ISOC) ($35 a year -- bimonthly magazine)
  • Articles

• Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)
• Computer Press Association

Archives

• Walnut Creek CDROM
• COSMIC
• Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)
• SPAN
• Digital Corporate Research
• GNU Emacs Lisp Archive
• Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX
• Jumbo!
• Netlib
• OAK Software Repository
• Simtel
• Statlib
• Sunsite
• UUNET FTP Archive
• Carnegie Mellon University Artificial Intelligence Repository (CMU AIR)

Software Activism

• Free Software Foundation

• Union for the Public Domain

• Boycott Microsoft

• Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)

• NetAction

Vendors that support OSS

• Adobe -- Postscript and PDF
• Guide to Computer Vendors
• Hewlett Packard -- nice documentation
• IBM -- documention and freeware
• Sun Microsystems -- Java