General Documentation & Information

This section contains links to pages that contain general IT relevant information or information about several technologies. Sites that provide information about specific technologies are found in the various other categories.

• O'Reilly Open Books - full online version of books.
• Free programming and computer science books
• www.faqs.org - FAQs, RFCs
• Wikipedia - The free encyclopedia in many languages

Group Support

• SourceForge - hosts open source projects
• CVS Homepage - Concurrent Versions System : Manages different versions of source code and supports teamwork.
• Mailing List Provider
• Yahoo Group Platform
• Subversion (SVN) - Source code management, intended to be a more powerful replacement for CVS.

Internet

• Mozilla - excellent open source Web browser and mail client
  The following link provides information on how to use GnuPG with Mozilla or Mozilla Thunderbird (Mail).
• VNC Homepage - you can use the VNC client to display the screen of the computer where the VNC server is running. This software is similar to PC Anywhere or the Windows Terminal Server.
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - HTML, XML, ... specifications

GNU / Linux

• Linux Magazine
• The Linux Documentation Project (HOWTOs, ...)
• Digital Unix Documentation - many topics may also apply to Linux
• KDE Desktop Environment
• Security Information
• RPMseek, RPMfind - search for rpm packages by name, contained file, ... or have a look at FreshRPMs if you search for RedHat rpm packages
• Linux USB Homepage
• Linux Standards Base - Mission Statement: To develop and promote a set of standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant system. In addition, the LSB will help coordinate efforts to recruit software vendors to port and write products for Linux.
• PPTP Project at sourceforge - the original sources can be found here.

Development

• Anjuta - Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Gnome, supports C/C++ Projects
• KDevelop - IDE of KDE, supports various kinds of projects, including C, C++, Java, Pascal, PHP, ...
• Open Source 802.1X Implementation for Linux

Linux Kernel Resources

• The Linux Kernel Sources
• http://www.kernelnewbies.org/ much kernel related information, hosts documents,
• Kernelbook.Sourceforge
• Kernelhacking
• Linux Kernel 2.4 Internals
• Linux Device Drivers 2nd Edition - download of book possible
• Linux IP Networking - related to kernel 2.2.x
• The journey of a packet through the Linux 2.4 network stack

Programming

• Apache Software Foundation: Apache WebServer, Tomcat, Java utilities, XML tools like Xerces (XML Parser)
• SelfHTML (German) - An excellent guide to construct your own HTML sites
• CVS Homepage - Concurrent Versions System : Manages different versions of source code and supports teamwork.
• Subversion (SVN) - is intended as a replacement for CVS.
• PHP Homepage - Very popular web scripting language for dynamic web pages.
• Perl Homepage
• www.boost.org - C++ libraries - libraries that might be added to the standard library
• IBM Alphaworks - Open Source Site of IBM
• Listing of UML tools (ArgoUML, AndroMDA, ...)

Databases

• MySQL - Open source database server for different operating systems, very fast but for example stored procedures or triggers are not possible. If you want a graphical tool for administrating your MySQL server try phpMyAdmin.
• PostgreSQL - Open Source Database Server for Linux and Windows
• Oracle - commercial database but downloadable with developer license, the Express Edition can even be used commercially
  You can find an Oracle SQL Tutorial here.

Microsoft

• Microsoft - Homepage
• MSDN Online Library
• Homepage for MS Office Developers

• Windows

  • SysInternals – several system utilities for Windows, e.g., TcpView for a list of open ports along with the corresponding program or ProcessExplorer that is an enhanced version of the Windows TaskManager.
  • Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP – several utilities, e.g., a better calculator or the possibility to open a command (cmd) shell from within the context menu of the Windows Explorer.
  • WinGuides.com - information about Windows registry, security, scripting, drivers, ...

Organizations

• Object Management Group - UML, CORBA, ...
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - HTML, XML, ...
• IETF Homepage - try this site if you are searching for a specific RFC.

Miscellaneous

• GhostView and GhostScript for Windows
• Putty - pretty good, small, and free SSH Client, another client is available at http://www.ssh.com/products/ssh/download.html (free for personal use).
• Memtest86 - Tool for testing the memory of x86 based systems
• http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/csound/frontpage.html and http://www.csound.org => Sound programming - links for sound with the computer
• MaxMind GeoIP - tool for lookup of the country corresponding to a given IP address
• OpenNMS - Open Source Network Management System for SNMP and more