Software

Follow any of the links below for extensive lists of applications that have been written for or ported to Linux.

The FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation and the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
freshmeat.net is a huge index of software and GUI themes with comment boards for every item.
Wikipedia features a list of software that runs natively on Linux.

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September 2008, #173

Feeling a bit like a Thermian? Never give up, never surrender! Someday, you could go from underdog to top dog. Just take a look at a few of the underdogs we highlight in this issue: Mutt, djbdns, Nginix, Gentoo, Xara and the program voted mostly likely to fail just a few years back—Firefox. If Firefox not radical enough for you, check out Chef Marcel's column for some more alternatives. Having trouble mapping your program data to your relational database? If so, Rueven Lerner shows you some tricks in his At The Forge column.

Need to run GUI applications on your server in the next state? In his Paranoid Penguin column, Mick Bauer shows you how to do it securely. Kyle Rankin keeps hacking and slashing and shows you a few split screen secrets you may not be familiar with. Finally, we all know what happens next February, but only Doc knows what happens afterward.

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