2. Freie Software-Projekte   
 

general resources

The BerliOS Project, The Open Source Mediator
wants to offer a neutral mediator function. The target groups of BerliOS are on one hand 
the developers and users of Open Source Software and on the other hand commercial 
manufacturers of OSS operating systems and applications as well as support companies. 
Started 10-Feb-2000 by GMD Fokus. 

sourceforge.net, provided by VA Linux Systems, Inc.
 

Linux   

Linus Torvalds, The Linux Edge, in: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1999 

Linux Verband LIVE 

linux.de 

Linux-Magazin 

Linux Online   

Linux Ticker 

Linux Heaven 

Linux Anwender Handbuch & hier   

Linux Versus NT  
Remember Paul's head-to-head comparison of these competing systems? Hear  
the truth from the people who really know.  
  
BeLUG (Berliner Linux User Group) 

AFUL (Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Linux et des Logiciels Libres) 

Japan Linux Association  

laut offiziellen Verlautbarungen soll die auf der Sony Playstation 2 (Release wird im Frühjahr 2000   
erwartet) Linux laufen. 

Harvey Blume, Exquisite Source. Heads turned in June when Linus Torvalds's Linux operating system was awarded first prize by the judges of an international art festival. How far, one wonders, can the open source model go? (The Atlantic Monthly, August 12, 1999) 

Paul Ferris, The Anti-Linux-IPO Howto (linuxtoday Jul 23, 1999)  
"With a little help here, and some beer (I recommend Fosters), you, yes you dear non-Linux journalist, can score big in the Anti-Linux-IPO article arena. No need to read up on the facts or do heavy research to sound authoritative. A lot of your colleagues aren't doing it, so why should you? Why should you burn your valuable time on something pointless like accuracy, when you could be playing Doom instead?"  

Torvalds: Preserve the 'F Word'. Warning: Dirty words could be lurking under the hood of your operating system. And Linus Torvalds likes it that way. (Wired News Report, 10.Jun.99.PDT) 

Armin Medosch, Kunstpreis an Linux. Ist das die endgültige Bankrotterklärung der Kunst gegenüber der Technik? (Telepolis, 01.06.99)  

Serving Linux to the Masses. Next week, Linux vendor Caldera Systems will launch a user-friendly desktop version of the operating system, but experts say that it's too soon to call it a Windows killer, by Leander Kahney (Wired News, 14.Apr.99.PDT) 
 

   
KDE (K Desktop Environment)   

GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment)   

GNOME Ver 1.0 released March 3, 1999   
 

The Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program)  

Samba   
 

XFree86 

XFree86, a free implementation of the X Window System that runs on Unix, Linux, and OS/2, traditionally focused on Intel x86 but now also supports other platforms.  

X Windows (came out of Project Athena at MIT)   
Open Group's X Window System  

X Window System and OSF/Motif  

Window Maker, an X11 window manager supporting GNUstep  
 

Perl   

Larry Wall's script language 
perl.org 
perl.com 

Larry Wall, Diligence, Patience, and Humility,  in: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1999  

CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)   

Python, another scripting lannguage 

Tcl/Tk, yet another free script language   
 

Apache Web Server  

Apache Home 

Brian Behlendorf, Open Source as a Business Strategy,  in: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1999  
  

BSD  
Marshall Kirk McKusick, Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable, in: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1999   

FreeBSD   

386/BSD   

NetBSD   

OpenBSD   

(BSDI's kommerzielle Version)   
  
 

GNU (GNU's not Unix) 

GNU Home 

Richard Stallman, The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement, in: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1999 

Georg's Brave GNU World (Newsletter on GNU and other free software projects) 

GCC (GNU C Compiler)  

Patrick Goltzsch, Die mäandrierende Evolution freier Software. Compiler-Entwicklung im Zwiespalt zwischen kommerziellen und experimentellen Interessen. (Telepolis 09.03.99)  
Im Zentrum der Entwicklung freier Software bahnt sich ein Wechsel an. Der bisherige Standard-Compiler  GCC wird zunehmend durch eine Weiterentwicklung unter dem Kürzel  EGCS verdrängt.  

EGCS Home 

GNU Hurd  (GNU's microkernel based on the Mach kernel)  
    
Towards a New Strategy of OS Design (paper on Hurd)    

GNUstep, based on the original OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc. (now Apple)   

GROFF (GNU troff, text formattor)  

GNU Gather (Internet Groupware System)  
 

Free Implementations of JAVA 

Kaffe 

Japhar 

GNU and the Java language 
 

Others 

MMBase, an open-source Content Management System by VPRO, under Mozilla Open Source license 

Iridium as free satellite project!  
BY KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI, Geeks to the rescue! Three programmers try to spark a grass-roots movement on the Net to save global satellite network Iridium from a fiery death in space. (Salon Magazine, Technology, March 23, 2000) 

Genesis3D Open Source Project ist eine 3D-Engine, die es mit solchen aufnehmen kann, wie sie in professionellen Spielen verwendet werden 

Xanadu, envisioned by Ted Nelson developed by Roger Gregory, open sourced in 8/99   

Icecast, was created in January of 1999 by Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open source audio streaming server that anyone could modify, use, and tinker with. It is developed under the GNU General Public License by many people scattered around the globe. 

Blender, 3D modelling and animation, from NL 

Freie Programmiersprachen für den Apple Macintosh (gesammelt by Jörg Kantel) 

MINIX, Tanenbaum's free & open source, small, microkernel-based UNIX clone available for the PC was designed for learning about OSs  
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html   

ReactOS will be a free operating system that can run software and drivers    
compatible with Windows NT. ReactOS is targeted for Intel systems but may be ported to others later.     
http://www.sid-dis.com/reactos/    

Freedows, based on the "Cache Kernel" design developed by researchers at Stanford University, will be able to run applications from many different OSes, like the Macintosh or Amiga, Win95 and NT, DOS, Commodore 64 and Tandy  CoCo. With the Freedows Object Oriented Interface System GUI. Under GNU.   
http://www.math.tu-clausthal.de/~matsa/freedows/english/index.html   

FreeDOS    
http://www.freedos.org/    

Free VMS (on Mach)   
http://www.free-vms.org/    

Wine (Windows Emulator aka Wine Is Not an Emulator), a completely alternative implementation of Windows consisting of    
100% Microsoft Free code allowing unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under Intel Unixes including Linux.  
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/os/linux/answers/windows-emulation/wine-faq  
http://www.winehq.com    
 
 

Sendmail.com   
Autor Eric Allman hat Sendmail Inc. gegründet.  
   
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Deamon, the software that makes the Domain Name System run) 

GPG  

WAIS (Brewster Kahle)   

Web Databasing with PHP and MySQL  
This three-lesson tutorial teaches how these free and powerful tools can  
be used to make a data-driven Web site. Learn how to install these  
packages, then start programming. (Wired Tutorial, 2/1999)   
  

Open-Sourced Commercial Code   

Mozilla (the open source version of Netscape's browser Navigator)   

Jim Hamerly and Tom Paquin with Susan Walton, Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla, in: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1999  

Troll Technologies' Qt (the graphicx library underneath KDE)    

PalmOS (open source oder nur für Entwickler?)