UNIX and UNIX-like systems

Original version: Wed Mar 26 14:18:29 2003
Last updates: Tue Sep 14 17:39:55 2004
. . . Thu Mar 23 14:14:15 2017               

This Web site collects useful links to UNIX resources. I used to keep some of these as Web browser bookmarks, but it made more sense to make them more widely available here.

• Unix command index: a cross-referenced list of commands and operating systems that supply them, together with a list of universally available commands.
• ADIOS (Automated Download and Installation of Operating Systems) Project at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and associated news story. ADIOS supports User-Mode Linux, which allows nested system images, giving access to multiple Linux flavors on one system (see also VMware below)
• AT&T Labs Research: Secure Systems Research
• Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill: where UNIX, C, C++, awk, ... began
• BSD (Berkeley Standard Distribution) resources
  • BSDatwork [news]
  • BSDForums [news]
  • BSDHound [news]
  • BSD/OS [commercially supported BSD]
  • BSDVault [news]
  • Daemon News (daily)
  • Daemon News (monthly)
  • Darwin
  • Defcon1 [FreeBSD help]
  • DragonFlyBSD [development fork from FreeBSD-4.x separate from 5.x]
  • Dru Lavigne's FreeBSD Basics articles [see also her new O'Reilly book, BSD Hacks ]
  • FreeBSD Addicts [news]
  • FreeBSD Cheat Sheets [help]
  • FreeBSD Diary [calendar]
  • The FreeBSD Handbook
  • FreeBSDhowtos
  • FreeBSD KDE [graphical desktop environment]
  • The FreeBSD mailing list archives
  • The FreeBSD Project
  • FreeBSDSearch [Web search on FreeBSD topics]
  • FreeSBIE [a boot-and-run CD distribution]
  • FreshPorts
  • Google's BSD resources
  • LiveCD List [list of all available LiveCDs and LiveDVDs for both BSD and GNU/Linux]
  • LiveBSD [FreeBSD 5.x and DragonFlyBSD on boot-and-run CD]
  • Michael Lucas --- Big Scary Daemons [news]
  • The NetBSD Project [Look for NetBSD i386 Live for a distribution that can boot and run from a CD without modifying the local disk; see also Knoppix below]
  • OpenBSD: Multiplatform Ultra-secure OS
  • OpenBSD FAQ (frequently asked questions)
  • OpenBSD Packet Filter (PF)
  • OpenBSD Journal [news]
  • OpenIDS [news]
  • O'Reilly's BSD DEVCENTER
  • PC BSD [based on FreeBSD, with a goal of providing a GUI installation and KDE-based desktop environment that is competitive with GNU/Linux and other desktop O/Ses]
  • Trusted BSD [incorporated into FreeBSD 5.0 ]
• CD-ROM image distribution mirrors at this site
  • Aurora 1.0 for SPARC
  • FreeBSD 5.0
  • Knoppix
  • NetBSD 1.6
  • OpenBSD 3.3
  • Mandrake 9.1
  • Red Hat 8.0 and Red Hat 9.0 A long list of Red Hat mirrors is available here.
  • SuSE Linux [acquired by Novell 4-Nov-2003] Mirrored at University of Utah.
• Cygwin: Unix tools and libraries layered on top of Microsoft Windows. See this page for more information.
• Embedded GNU/Linux resources:
  • http://uclibc.org/: uClibc is a stripped down C run-time library for embedded systems
  • http://www.busybox.net/: BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. ... BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.
• Other GNU/Linux distributions:
  • Current GNU/Linux distributions (130+ flavors)
  • Debian GNU/Linux [The name is a contraction of Deborah and Ian.]
  • GNU software master archive Mirrored at University of Utah.
  • Historic GNU/Linux distributions
  • Linux Links: pointers to 350+ distributions of GNU/Linux
  • Linux from Scratch a build-it and customize-it yourself distribution with dozens of mirrors around the world
  • Linspire (formerly named Lindows)
  • Morphix: a modular distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix
• CUPS: Common UNIX Printing System
• GNU/Linux distributions and Web sites
  • AlphaLinux Homepage
  • Ark Linux Homepage
  • Bastille Linux [security hardening of the Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE and TurboLinux Linux distributions along with HP-UX and Mac OS X]
  • CodeWeavers - Technology - Wine
    [commercially supported and developed version of Wine (open source implementation of MS Windows API running on top of X11 and UNIX)]
  • DistroWatch [links to many GNU/Linux distributions]
  • Edubuntu: Linux for young human beings
  • Embedded Linux Consortium
  • Fedora Project: [``proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products''] and
    Fedora Legacy Project for support of old Red Hat and Fedora Core distributions
  • Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and another view of FHS
  • Finnix Live CD
  • Free Software Directory
  • Gentoo
  • Gnome project
  • GNOME Office - Gnumeric spreadsheet
  • Greater Utah BSD User Group
  • KDE desktop
  • Knoppix [Debian GNU/Linux derivative that can boot and run from a CD without modifying the local disk; see also NetBSD i386 Live ]
  • linux.doc
  • linux.org
  • Linux Community Development System [GNU/Linux on IBM S/390 hardware]
  • LinuxDevices [embedded Linux]
  • Linux on IA-64
  • Linux Kernel Benchmark Suite
  • LiveCD List [list of all available LiveCDs and LiveDVDs for both BSD and GNU/Linux]
  • lperfex: a Hardware Performance Monitor for Linux/IA32 Systems
  • Linuxant: wrappers for Microsoft Windows device drivers to allow them to run under GNU/Linux
  • Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO
  • LinuxPrinting.org
  • Linux Router Project
  • Linux Standard Base
  • Live CDs (IA-32 boot-and-run)
  • Mac-on-linux project overview
  • MkLinux: Linux for the Power Macintosh
  • Neoware Linux
  • NeTraverse - Bringing the Revolution to Desktop TCO (TM)
  • Open Source Development Labs [the central body dedicated to accelerating the use of Linux for enterprise computing]
  • PCLinuxOS
  • Red Hat hardware list
  • Red Hat Linux Products
  • rpmfind [finding packages in RPM archives]
  • Savannah
  • SE Linux and SE Linux packages [secure Linux]
  • Salt Lake Linux Users Group
  • Skolelinux: Linux for European schools
  • SystemRescue CD-ROM: [GNU/Linux system on a bootable CDROM for repairing your system and your data after a crash.]
  • Trinux: Trinux is a ramdisk-based Linux distribution that boots from a single floppy or CD-ROM, loads it packages from an HTTP/FTP server, a FAT/NTFS/ISO filesystem, or additional floppies.
  • Ubuntu: Linux for human beings
  • Trusted Debian
  • USU Free Software and GNU/Linux Club
  • Wine Project home page
    [open source implementation of MS Windows API running on top of X11 and UNIX]
• GNU C Compiler Developer's Summit and conference proceedings for 2003 and 2004.
• GNUware on IBM PC DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows platforms and the reverse
• Heirloom Documentation Tools: This package provides troff, nroff, and related utilities to format manual pages and other documents for output on terminals and printers. They are portable and enhanced versions of the utilities released by Sun as part of Solaris, which are a variant of ditroff, which, in turn, descends to the historical Unix troff that generated output for the C/A/T phototypesetter.
• Hewlett-Packard HP-UX development tools
• HP/Compaq/DEC Tru64 (OSF/1)
• IBM AIX Documentation Library
• IBM RS/6000: AIX-RS6000 Library
• IEEE POSIX Certification Authority
• Interactive UNIX (SVR3.2-based) [discontinued]
• MINIX 3: a new open-source operating system designed to be highly reliable, flexible, and secure. This new OS is extremely small, with the part that runs in kernel mode under 4000 lines of executable code. The parts that run in user mode are divided into small modules, well insulated from one another.
• Nexenta: NexentaOS is a complete GNU-based open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime.
• PearPC [PowerPC emulator for Intel IA-32 systems; Darwin, MacOS X, and Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PowerPC all run on it]
• Rosetta Stone for UNIX [management tool equivalents on various Unix flavors]
• OpenGroup Single UNIX Specification and Linux Standard Base Specification product compliance list
• SCO OpenServer UNIX (SVR3.2-based)
• SCO UNIXWare (SVR4-based)
• SGI Technical Publications Library
• SPARC International: Registered Trademarks
• Sun Ray Users' Group
• Sun Solaris (Sun SPARC and Intel IA-32)
• Sun Solaris Community Software Project [binary distributions of many packages]
• Sun Solaris documentation (Sun SPARC and Intel IA-32)
• Sun Solaris FreeWare4Sun [binary and source distributions of many packages]
• Sun Solaris package archives for SPARC and IA-32
• Sun Solaris x86 FAQs, resources, etc.
• UNIX publication bibliographies
  • GNU/Linux
  • GNU Project
  • Linux Journal and Embedded Linux Journal [ brief tables-of-contents and cross-reference index ]
  • SysAdmin journal [ brief tables-of-contents and cross-reference index ]
  • UNIX
• Unix Heritage Society
• UNIX Review
• UNIX System Home Page [maintained by The Open Group]: points to many useful resources, including the Single UNIX Specification.
• Unix user groups in Utah:
  • Greater Utah BSD Users Group
  • Provo Linux Users Group
  • Salt Lake Linux Users Group
  • Utah State University Free Software and Linux Club
• VMware: a virtual operating system layer on Intel IA-32 platforms. At our site, we run FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, Solaris x86, and Windows on top of VMware on top of GNU/Linux.
• Windows applications on GNU and UNIX platforms
• Tutorials: Migrating from Windows to Linux, Part 1: Preparation and Migrating From Windows To Linux: Part 2