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   4.2 Internet: web / ftp
     OpenLinux     : http://www.caldera.com
     Debian        : http://www.debian.org
     Delix         : http://www.delix.de                 
     DLX           : http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html
     Dos Linux     : ftp://wauug.erols.com/pub/people/kent-robotti/doslinux/
     Firemyst      : http://www.lizard.org/dragonlinux/
     Kheops        : http://www.linux-kheops.com 
     L. HQ         : http://www.linuxhq.com
     L. Internat'l : http://www.li.org/
     L. Journal    : http://www.linuxjournal.com/
     L. Org.       : http://www.linux.org/
     L. Resources  : http://www.linuxresources.com/
                         
  Minix         : http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html     O'Reilly      : 
http://www.ora.com/           [Unix/Linux Books]
     RedHat        : http://www.redhat.com
     RPM repository: http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/
     Slackware                      
    : http://www.cdrom.com     SUSE          : http://www.suse.de
     SUSE          : http://www.suse.com
     Tom's rootboot: http://www.clark.net/~toehser/rb
     Yggdrasil     : http://www.yggdrasil.com/
     My own page (telematique.org/ft/links.ht
) has a whole section     dedicated to Linux.
   4.3 Books
   4.3.1 General Unix books
   4.3.1.1
    A Student's Guide to Unix
    by: Harley Hahn
    Publisher: McGraw Hill
    Edition: 1993
    ISBN: 0-07-025511-3
   4.3.1.2                          
    Life with Unix - A Guide for Everyone
    by: Don Libes and Sandy Ressler
    Publisher: Prentice Hall
    Edition: 1990
    ISBN: 0-13-536657-7
   4.3.1.3
    Unix for the Impatient
    by: Paul Abrahams and Bruce Larson
    Publisher:              
Addison Wesley    Edition: 1992
    ISBN: 0-201-55703-7
   4.3.1.4
    Unix Power Tools
    by: Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly and Mike Loukides (and other)
    Publisher: O'Reilly / Bantam                            
    Edition: 1993
    ISBN: 0-553-35402-7 
   4.3.1.5
    Unix in a Nutshell
    by: Daniel Gilly and O'Reilly staff
    Publisher: O'Reilly
    Edition: 2nd ed. 1992 (for System V and Solaris 2)
    ISBN: 1-56592-001-5
   
   4.3.2 Specific Linux books
   4.3.2.1
     Linux                      
In A Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference     by: Jessica Perry Hekman
     publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
     ISBN: 1-56592-167-4
   4.3.2.2
     'Sams' Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours
     (RedHat 5.0 - 2.0.32 included on CD +-$40)                  
     ISBN 0-672-31162-3
   4.3.2.3
     Linux
     (With CD +-$90)
     ISBN 0-201-17809-5
   4.3.2.4
     Linux for Dummies
     (RedHat 2.0.30 included on CD +-$50)
     ISBN 0-7645-0275-1
   4.3.2.5
     Running Linux
     by: Matt                    
Welsh og Lar Kaufman     Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
     ISBN: 1-56592-151-8
   4.3.2.6
     Dr. Linux
     by: (The Linux Documentation Project)
     Publisher: Linux Systems Labs
     (4th Edition, 1890 pages)
     ISBN:  1-888172-61-4           
  5. CONNECTING
  
   5.1 Fidonet
   5.1.1 A fidonet system
   (Pablo Saratxaga)
     > for fidonet look for ifmail
   http://www.average.org/ifmail/ (official Eugene Crosser's version)
   http://www.z2.fidonet.org/ifmail-tx/ (the "tx" version).      
   tx version offers better gating support (charset), various patches
   this version is better for 8 bit fidonet and mandatory for fido.ger.*
   (gatebau method), as well as telnet/vmodem support.
     ifmail is the name of the whole                   
package (and the email --> netmail     conversion program), the mailer is 
ifcico.
     ifmail contains:
     ifmail    email-->netmail
     ifnews    news-->echomail     (in fact it is a hard link to ifmail)
     ifpack    compresses pkt               
     ifunpack  uncompress incoming paquets and feeds pkt to iftoss
     iftoss    convert pkt to email and/or news nad feeds to snedmail/rnews
     ifindex   compiles the nodelist for ifcico to use
     ifcico    the mailer
     nlpatch                  
  applies a nodediff to the nodelist     ifstat    display stats about 
outbound
     there is also a lot of configuration exemples as well as
     contribution tools (an areafix, a *.TIC manager, tools to manage
     databases ifmail                    
uses, a region/net extractor from nodelist)     making it a full package to 
run a fido node or point under linux
     (you need also sendmail and INN (or cnews or smail) and a fido
     able getty if you are a node)
   5.1.2 a good fidonet editor       
   Thomas Vogt, 2:240/5442.1 is the new Feddy-Maintainer
   You also reach him via I-Net at tom@mystery.antar.com.
   ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/fido/FEddy-1.0.tar.gz
   or
   ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Fido/FEddy-1.0.tar.gz               
  
   5.2 Internet
   5.2.1 How do I get ppp to connect to my ISP automatically?
   (John Burton)
   Obtain and install diald.  The home of diald is
   http://www.dna.lth.se/~erics/diald.html
   5.3 BBSes
   5.3.1 DayDream/Linux
                        
 ported from AmigaOS. :) Totally free with sources   
Telnet/FTP/FidoNet-support.
   http://www.daydream.ml.org/
   5.3.2 BBBS
   telnet
   http://www.bbbs.net
  6. EMULATORS
  
   6.1 Limitations & bugs
   An emulator will never                       
completely replace the real thing. As long as   you bear that in mind, you'll 
be able to live with them.
   6.2 DOSEMU
   Actually very good. Allows you to tap into the large amount of Dos
   software. Many people use it to run a legacy BBS.            
   6.3 WINE - WABI
   Wine is a Free Windows 3.11 emulation. It is far from being complete,
   but a) it works, b) it's free and c) it's constantly being improved.
   WABI is a commercial win311 emulation originally developped by SUN         
            
   for Unix. It has been ported to Linux by Caldera (Wabi 2.2). There
   were rumors in june 97 that Wabi 3.0 would also run Win95 binaries,
   but W>abi is today all but dead, since Sun has announced it had
   stopped development.                       
Wabi copies are today pretty cheap (less than   $100).
   6.4 AMIGA
   (Daniel Parreira)
   The amiga emulator is called UAE.
   ftp.fok.hu/pub/UAE
   You need the files "kick31.zip" and "wb311.zip" to get things started.
   (Marco van den Bovenkamp)  
   > Is it possible to read/write Amiga-formatted diskettes with linux? 
   > (Redhat 5.0) How?
   With some caveats, yes. Take a look at
   /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt.
   (Sune Stjerneby)
   kick and workbench:                   
those files are copyrighted and has been the   subject of lawsuits before ;).
   special note: -no- AT/ATX IBM PC floppy controllers are capable of
   read/writing to AmigaOS floppies, due to mechanics/controller
   differences, it                       
requires special/hack-ish hardware. It is, however,   possible to use hd 
drives formatted in Amiga FastFileSystem with
   Linux.
  7. PROGRAMMING
   7.1 Overview of development possibilities
   7.1.1 Threads
     > Can Linux run threads?               
(if so are they kernel threads or user threads?)
    Yes. It isn't yet in the distribution kernel (because it isn't 100%
    POSIX yet, only 99% :) ); look at
    http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/proven/pthreads.html
    http://www.aa.net/~mtp/PCthreads.ht
l    ftp://ftp.cs.fsu.edu/pub/PART/PTHREADS
   7.1.2 Compatibility
    > Can I program to the POSIX standard and have the program run
    > on Linux?
    Yes. At least as well that the majority of the other OS claiming
    POSIX compliance.            
   (Frederik Retsema)
   http://linas.org/linux/threads-faq.html. Within this page are several
   links to code and documentation of implementations of pthreads.
   see also www.linux.org/help/faq.html.
   7.2 C Development
   7.3 Shell scripting       
   7.4 Available books
   7.4.1 Shell scripting:
   7.4.1.1
     > any good pointers to learning BASH-shell-scripting ?
     samples: ftp.uu.net/published/oreilly/nutshell/bash/bash.tar.Z
   7.4.1.2
    Unix Shell Programming
    by:                     
Stephen Kochan and Patrick Wood    Publisher: Hayden
    Edition: 1990
    ISBN: 0-672-48448-X
   7.4.2 Unix Programming
   7.4.2.1
    Advanced Programming in The Unix Environment
    by: Richard Stevens
    Publisher: Addison-Wesley                    
    Edition: 1992
    ISBN: 0-201-56317-7
     
   7.5 How to do various things: tips & tricks
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