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“The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.”
 - Linus Torvalds, initial developer of Linux and Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Linux project at Open Source Development Labs.


Distributions


DistroWatch - a comparison of Linux Distributions

LinuxISO - Fresh ISOs, just like Mom used to burn them!

SENTINIX is a GNU/Linux distribution designed for monitoring, intrusion detection, penetration testing, auditing, statistics/graphing and anti-spam. It's completely free; free to use, free to modify and free to distribute. SENTINIX includes the following software, installed and pre-configured; Nagios, Nagat, Snort, SnortCenter, ACID, Cacti, RRDTool, Nessus, Postfix, MailScanner, SpamAssassin, openMosix, MySQL, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python and lots more.

Helix is an Incident Response & Computer Forensics Live CD by e-fense™, Inc.

EduBuntu
"Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". The Edubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to schools, through its customised school environment.

 


RPMs


APT - is THE dependency tool you need to find ALL your RPMs.

EdWin's RPM Center

FreshRPMs - simple, clean RPM packages

RPM Search

RPM Repository


Applications


KDE Apps - Applications for your KDE desktop

OpenOffice - a multi-platform office productivity suite

The Gimp - The Gnu Image Manipulation Program

Lamp - how MySQL is used in conjunction with Linux, Apache, and either Perl, Python, or PHP.

Mailman - for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists.


PERL, PHP, & SQL
(oh my!)


ActiveState - Programming for the people

mySQL

O'Reilly Perl

PHP.net

PostgreSQL

The phpMyAdmin project

The Perl Directory


Tools


AirSnort - wireless tool to recover encryption keys

BitDefender - Secure your every bit!

Ethereal - The world's most popular network protocol analyzer

Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) - monitor the traffic load

OpenXtra - Network management for all

Snort - The Open Source Network Intrusion Detection System

WebMin - web-based interface for system administration

Bacula - The Network Backup Solution



Documentation & HOWTOs  


The Linux System Administrator's Guide

K12Linux Network Administration Course

O'Reilly

LinuxDevCenter

Introduction To Linux - A Hands On Guide

 


General Info


K-12 Linux Project

Linux Online!