Nice Linux Links

From LUG@IITD

Contents 1 First Page for Linux Newcomers 2 Linux is Not Windows 3 How to Ask Questions 4 Why Linux ? 5 Linux Tool ?? 6 Interesting 7 Linux Help 8 Tutorials 9 Kernel 10 Producing Open Source Software 11 FOSS 11.1 FOSS research papers 11.2 FOSS lessons 12 Update sites for various Eclipse plugins 13 Good Books 13.1 Programming 13.2 FOSS History 14 Kid-Zone 15 Off topic - Open source hardware

First Page for Linux Newcomers

• http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Docs
• Articles/Read Linux Advantages in 2 minute

Linux is Not Windows

• Linux is not windows
  • http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

How to Ask Questions

• http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Why Linux ?

• 101 reasons why Linux is better than windows
  • http://cityblogger.com/archives/2007/01/24/101-reasons-why-linux-is-better-than-windows
• Why Linux is Better
  • http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/
• GNU/Linux Screenshots
  • http://linuxscreenshots.org/os/
• GNU/Linux Primer
  • http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/gnulinux-primer/
  • http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_A_General_Introduction/Linux

Linux Tool ??

• List of Linux tools equivalent of Windows
  • http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software
  • http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
  • The Linux Alternative Project: http://www.linuxalt.com/
• Top 100 of the best useful OpenSource Aapplications
  • http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/top-100-of-the-best-useful-opensource-applications/
• Top games in Linux
  • http://whdb.com/2008/top-25-linux-games-for-2008/
  • http://gamesuy.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-10-free-linux-3d-games.html
  • http://rangit.com/software/top-8-linux-games-of-2007/
• Educational Linux Software For Children
  • http://www.foogazi.com/2008/03/25/educational-linux-software-for-children/
• Free GRE Tool for gnome
  • http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~arvindn/gretools/
• Screen-capture apps
  • http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/screen-capture.html

Interesting

• Interesting Distros
  • Damn Small Linux
  • GoboLinux
• Interesting Project
  • ServerAtSchool Project
  • Tango Project
  • http://autopackage.org/ a Package management system
• Richard Stallman's Essays
  • http://lug-iitd.org/images/a/a5/Rms-essays.pdf
• Wikipedia to pdf converter
  • http://dash-of-pepper.com/wikitype/
• Latex for Devanagari Documentation
  • http://www.wikihow.com/Create-Devanagari-Documents-in-Lyx-Using-Xelatex
• Hardware support for Linux
  • http://hardware4linux.info/

Linux Help

• A lot of nice posts
  • http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com
  • http://www.debianhelp.org
• A List of Useful Linux Commands
  • http://www.unixguide.net/linux/linuxshortcuts.shtml
• Quick Reference Cards
  • http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/quickrefs.htm
• Debian Documentation (has many useful manuals)
  • http://www.debian.org/doc
• Top 100 Linux Web Sites
  • http://www.linux-mag.com/id/522

Tutorials

• Latex, NS, Octave and other tutorials: http://www.rennes.enst-bretagne.fr/~gbertran/pages/tutorials_latex.html

• Open Office tutorials
  • http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/index.html

• Some quick howtos http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com

• Tutorials at LUG Manipal http://wiki.lugmanipal.org/Tutorials

• Debian newbie doc (help for using debian) http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Debian_newbie_help_documentation

• Unix/Linux tutorials for beginners
  • http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
  • http://www.math.utah.edu/lab/unix/unix-commands.htm
  • http://www.elated.com/articles/useful-unix-commands/
  • http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~kevin/unix-tutorial/toc.html
  • http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~wjk/UnixIntro/
  • http://www.unixtutorial.org
  • http://en.flossmanuals.net/
  • http://www.cgi101.com/help/unixhelp.html

• OpenCV tutorial
  • http://www.cs.iit.edu/~agam/cs512/lect-notes/opencv-intro/opencv-intro.html

• Linux kernel compilation howto
  • General: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-kernel/55612-mini-howto-compile-linux-kernel-2-6-a.html
  • Debian: http://www.howtoforge.com/howto_linux_kernel_2.6_compile_debian
  • Gentoo: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Compile_a_Kernel_Manually

• Programming Videos
  • http://showmedo.com/

• How to
  • http://www.makeuseof.com/service/linux/

Kernel

• http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/compiling-linux-kernel-26.html

Producing Open Source Software

• http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.html

FOSS

FOSS research papers

• http://opensource.mit.edu/online_papers.php?lim=1000

FOSS lessons

• http://beta.selfplatform.eu/lessonsview?ssid=23899

Update sites for various Eclipse plugins

• C++ Plugin
  • http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/callisto
• Eclox Plugin (Doxygen in Eclipse)
  • http://download.gna.org/eclox/update

Good Books

Programming

• Beginning Linux Programming By Neil Matthew & Richard Stones, 4th edition
  • This books is very useful in term of programming aspects. From Bash, C++, GTK, QT, MySql, to Device Drivers knowledge is provided.
  • Some books are on 10.10.4.1 also. Have a look there.

FOSS History

• Free as in Freedom, Richard Stallman's - Crusade for Free Software By Sam Williams 0-596-00287-4
  • Free as in Freedom: is a book about the life of Richard Stallman. Williams conducted several interviews with Stallman during the writing of the book as well as interviewing some of Stallman's class mates, and his mother. Read it online -- http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/

Kid-Zone

• http://softwareforkids.wordpress.com/

Off topic - Open source hardware

• http://f-cpu.seul.org/new/VHDL-HOWTO.f-cpu
• http://www.cyber-labo.co.jp/vmodel_en.html
• http://www.gmvhdl.com/hc11core.html
• http://www.opencores.org
• http://www.fpga4fun.com
• http://www.design-reuse.com/download/sip/
• http://www.ipcore.cn
• http://www.ht-lab.com/freecores/cpu8086/cpu86.html