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South African Sites
International Sites
- linux.org
- Everything you ever wanted know about Linux.
- lwn.net
- Linux weekly news. This is one of the best sources for
information
about Linux events. They also have everything all together in
a useful big page.
- Freshmeat
- An index of software projects. You can find any Linux
application.
Freshmeat has both open source and commercial software in its
database.
- openoffice.org
- Office package for Linux, based on StarOffice, originally by
Sun Microsystems. This is a free alternative to commercial word
processing, spreadsheet and presentation packages, which works
on various operating systems, including Linux.
- User
friendly - Comic strip with Linux humour (Linux can be funny
sometimes.)
- slashdot.org
- What have geeks been saying in the last 24 hours. That's
H-T-T-P
colon slash slash slash dot dot org.
Miscellaneous
- Netcraft's
web server survey
makes fascinating reading, especially the part about who controls
10% of IIS e-commerce sites. You can also see uptime
statistics for www.ledge.co.za. These people can tell you
what web server and operating system most people are using. The
uptime graph for www.microsoft.com
shows that they reboot their servers quite often (admittedly,
we might also reboot quite often if faced with the same load.)
- Packetstorm
- Ever wondered what other people are using to test your network
security? Here you can download security tools and everything
you need to become a script kiddie.
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- Electronic
Frontier Foundation
- Just when you thought it was safe to use your software, along
comes a big corporation with a lawyer ...
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