A Short Introduction to the

Interesting WWW Links

by Heikki Kantola

Chapter VII: Computers

Amiga

I happen to own and like Amiga computers, which perhaps aren't as popular as PCs or Macs, but which still look pretty nifty even as there hasn't been much development in last few years.

Amiga Web Directory
Comprehensive resource for Amiga information
World Wide Amiga Online!
Another good starting point for Amiga information
The Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator (UAE)
brings the joy of Amiga software on PCs, Macs and Unix boxes.

UNIX

The other system with which I can come along well is various UNIX variants.

Vendors

Apple | Compaq/Digital | FreeBSD | Hewlett-Packard | IBM | Linux | NetBSD | OpenBSD | Silicon Graphics | Sun

Software

X
XFree86
Freely distributable implementation of the X Windowing System
XAnim
Wonderful animation viewer for X
Window managers
XPDF
PDF viewer for X
GIMP :-/
GNU Image Manipulation Program - feature-packed image processing tool.
Text editors
XEmacs
Emacs: The Next Generation
JED
More light-weight solution for your editing needs
VI [FI]
The standard UNIX editor
Mutt [FI]
A fine mailreader.
HP-UX Software Archive :-\
Good source for UNIX software
Freshmeat
Linux-oriented software information centre.
Source Forge
hosts several interesting open source projects.
Savannah
GNU Project software collaboration site
FileWatcher.org
Searchable, daily updated directory of Linux related file archives and programs grouped by topic.
Softpanorama
Open Source Software Educational Society

Other interesting systems

Be
A new and innovative platform.
Plan 9
Interesting OS project from AT&T Bell Labs.
Inferno
More interesting stuff from the Bell Labs

Platform independent things

Programming

Document preparation and typesetting

Cryptography


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