Here is a partial listing of some sites I have found useful. Just cut and paste and save a a html file.<br /><br /><pre><font class="small">code:</font><hr><br /><center><b>Linux Support Sites</center></b><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Distribution documentation:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp">Debian Documentation Project</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/">Red Hat documentation</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3">Mandrake documentation</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.slackware.com/book/">Slackware Linux Essentials</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.caldera.com/support/resources/">Caldera Support Resources</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Other distributor-maintained documentation:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/">SuSE support database -- useful for other distributions as well</a><br /><li /><a href="http://support.calderasystems.com/caldera">Caldera Support Knowledge Base</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Distribution-specific pages I've found useful:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxmafia.com/debian/tips">How to survive Debian's dselect</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxmafia.org">Slackware resources</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Hardware:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/">HPT366 mini-HOWTO; also useful for non-RAID configurations of HPT370</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linux-ide.org/">ATA support for Linux</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/">Scrollwheel support</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.deadman.org/X/xbuttons.html">Riddley's XFree86 4 with IntelliMouse Explorer page</a><br /><li /><a href="http://alsa-project.org/">ALSA sound support</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.mostang.com/sane/">Scanner and digital imaging device support</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxvideo.org/">Linux DVD support</a><br /><li /><a href="http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/v4l.shtml">Alan Cox's Video4Linux resources -- video capture support</a><br /><br /><li /><a href="ftp://ftp2.detonator.nvidia.com/pub...IDIA_Linux.html">Free86 4 drivers for nVidia cards</a><br /><li /><a href="ftp://ftp2.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/XFree86_40/NVIDIA_Linux.html">XFree86 4 drivers for nVidia cards</a><br /><li /><a href="http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/">Xfree86 3.3.x 3D acceleration support for Matrox cards among others</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/d...es/linux_03.cfm">XFree86 4 3D acceleration support for Matrox cards -- buggy</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/linux_03.cfm">XFree86 4 3D acceleration support for Matrox cards -- buggy</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.deadman.org/X/">Riddley's resources about above</a><br /><li /><a href="http://linux.3dfx.com/">3dfx 3D support for XFree86 3.3.x and 4.x</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.dpotter.com/irmp3/info.html">MP3 Jukebox support</a><br /><li /><a href="http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/">Linux PC Card (PCMCIA) support</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan/">Lucent WaveLAN/ORiNOCO support</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.wavelan.com/support/software/">Manufacturer's driver page for above</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/">Linux on Laptops</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Software:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.freshmeat.net/">Comprehensive software index - FreshMeat</a><br /><li /><a href="http://linux.tucows.com/">Similar index - Tucows</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.winehq.com/">Wine project -- Win16/Win32 layer for Linux</a><br /><li /><a href="http://samba.linuxbe.org/">Friendly documentation for Samba (CIFS for UNIX)</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.uk.research.att.com/software.html">Software from the ORL, including VNC and OmniORB</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Desktop Environments and Window Managers:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.sawfish.org/">Sawfish</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNome</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.windowmaker.org/">WindowMaker</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.afterstep.org/">AfterStep</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/">Enlightment</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.fvwm.org/">FVWM</a><br /><li /><a href="http://blackbox.alug.org/">BlackBox</a><br /><li /><a href="http://icewm.sourceforge.net/">IceWM</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.qvwm.org/">QVWM</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Themes:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.themes.or">and ancillaries</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Kernel resources:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="finger @zeus.kernel.org"> for latest kernel version</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxhq.com/"> for kernel information</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.kernelnotes.org/"> was above for a while, but has since died.</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.kernel.org/">Linux Kernel archives</a><br /><li /><a href="http://kt.linuxcare.com/">Kernel Traffic -- summaries of the LK mailing list</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Fringe features of Linux:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/">Coda filesystem</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.braysystems.com/linux/trustees.html">Linux trustees (ACL) project</a><br /><li /><a href="http://linux-ha.org/">Linux high availability project</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.hert.org/projects/linux/auditd/">Auditing for Linux</a><br /><li /><a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/">SGI's XFS">???</a><br /><li /><a href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/develop...zone=opensource">IBM's JFS</a><br /><li /><a href="href="href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jfs/?dwzone=opensource">IBM's JFS</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.namesys.com/">ReiserFS</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Security:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/forums/bugtraq/intro.html>Bugtraq archive</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.rootshell.com/">Rootshell</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/">Security Focus</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security Portal</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.cert.org/">CERT/CC</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.tripwiresecurity.com/">Tripwire, Inc.</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.tripwire.org/">Open-source Tripwire project</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.lkap.org/">Linux Kernel Auditing Project</a><br /><li /><a href="http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/">Kerberos</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>More hardware stuff:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linux-usb.org/">USB support for Linux</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxprinting.org/">Printing for Linux</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue57/stoddard.html">Using an ATAPI CD-R/RW with Linux</a><br /><li /><a href="http://etree.org/linux.html">CD writing info</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxiso.org/">CD-R ISO9660 images</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.palmpower.com/issuesprin...9908/linux.html">Palm synchronization</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.palmpower.com/issuesprint/issue199908/linux.html">Palm synchronization</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linux.about.com/compute/...aa030100c-a.htm">Palm interaction with Linux apps</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linux.about.com/compute/linux/library/weekly/aa030100c-a.htm">Palm interaction with Linux apps</a><br /><li /><a href="http://milosch.net/visor/">USB Handspring Visor synchronization</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Multimedia software:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://heroine.linuxave.net/xmovie.html">Movie player for X</a><br /><li /><a href="http://xmps.sourceforge.net/">XMPS -- can use Windows Media Player codecs</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.strusel007.de/linux/xawtv/index.html">TV viewing and video capture</a><br /><li /><a href="http://moes.pmnet.uni-oldenburg.de/bttvgrab/">video capture</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.xmms.org/">XMMS -- music player</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/">CD audio ripper</a><br /><li /><a href="http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/gogo_e.html">MP3 encoder</a><br />RealPlayer 7 for UNIX<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Productivity software:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.sun.com/staroffice">StarOffice</a><br /><li /><a href="http://koffice.kde.org/">KOffice</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/">GNOME Office</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.vistasource.com/products/axware">Applixware</a><br /><li /><a href="http://linux.corel.com/products/wpo2000_linux/index.htm">WordPerfect Office for Linux</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Windows-on-Linux:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.winehq.com/">Win16, Win32s and Win32 for x86 UNIX</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.vmware.com/">Virtualizer</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.plex86.org/">Open-source virtualizer; able to boot DOS and Linux so far</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>You have questions? They have answers:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://arstechnica.infopop.net/Open...rchf&s=50009562">???</a><br /><li /><a href="http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?q=Y&a=srchf&s=50009562">???</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxisp.com/servers.html">Daemons and software useful to ISPs running on Linux</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/pptp.html">PPTP VPNs using Linux</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.roaringpenguin.com/">PPP over Ethernet client for Linux</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.ieng.com/cpress/cc/td/cp...ith/ith01gb.htm">???</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.ieng.com/cpress/cc/td/cpress/fund/ith/ith01gb.htm">Internetworking Basics from Cisco Press</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/">PPP dialer from WorldVisions</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Kernel hacking:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.kernel.org/">Get the source</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/lki/index.html">To learn about the working of the 2.4 kernel</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/lkmpg/mpg.html">To learn to write modules</a><br /><li /><a href="http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/un...king-guide.html">???</a><br /><li /><a href="http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/unreliable-guides/kernel-hacking/lk-hacking-guide.html">Comments on the Linux kernel and its PI</a><br /><li /><a href="http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/devices.html">Writing Linux device drivers</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html">The outdated Kernel Hackers' Guide</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html">High-level introduction to the kernel; does not go into interfaces</a><br /><li /><a href="http://deadman.org/bash.html">riddley's bash tips</a><br /><li /><a href="<http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/">ISA Plug-and-Play configuration</a><br /><br /><b>Latest Mozilla nightly buildSOCKS5-related:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/sw/">usocksd, free usermode SOCKS5 daemon</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.socks.nec.com/reference/socks5.html">SOCKS5 reference implementation by NEC. Includes runsocks, which will SOCKSify most PF_INET socket software, as well as a SOCKS5 daemon.</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Distributed computing with Linux:</b><br /><br /><http://www.linas.org/linux/corba.html> [DCE, CORBA, Java RMI and DCOM -- `middleware'/`enabling software' support for Linux]<br /><http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/submit/Paper.html> [DCOM vs CORBA]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>System programming:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.0...r/libc_toc.html">???</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.0.6/html_chapter/libc_toc.html">GNU C Library reference manual. A bit outdated at this point.</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.llnl.gov/computing/tutorials/pthreads/html/">POSIX thread documentation</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Life, the Universe and Everything:/b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://vip.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lynx-b....html#DIRECTORY">???</a><br /><li /><a href="http://vip.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lynx-bookmarks.html">A whole collection of informative pages maintained by Christopher B. Browne</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.foldoc.org/">Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.about.com/">Mined data</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.everything2.com">An effective means of wasting time</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.h2g2.com/">I had to reference this one</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>IrDA stuff</b><br /><br />This is what turned up in my search to get IrLAN to work:<br /><li /><a href="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO/">Infrared-HOWTO on the LDP. Not quite up-to-date or specific.</a><br /><li /><a href="http://irda.sourceforge.net/">IrDA project site. Plenty of broken links.</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www4.pasta.cs.uit.no/pipermail/linux-irda/">Archives of the Linux-IrDA mailing list -- valuable given the paucity of documentation</a><br /><li /><a href="http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/irda.html">SuSE-specific instructions on using IrDA.</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.pasta.cs.uit.no/pipermai...ber/000532.html">???</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.pasta.cs.uit.no/pipermail/linux-irda/1999-November/000532.html">Getting IrLAN working</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.pasta.cs.uit.no/pipermai...ber/000519.html">???</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.pasta.cs.uit.no/pipermail/linux-irda/1999-November/000519.html">Getting IrCOMM working</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean...IrDA/IrNET.html">???</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/IrDA/IrNET.html">IrNET for Linux</a><br /><li /><a href="http://lhd.datapower.com/">ZDNet LhD: Linux Hardware Database; an extensive compendium of information about hardware compatibility</a><br /><li /><a href="http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/">An eclectic compendium for Linux newbies; a useful, if a little outdated, guide</a><br /><li /><a href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Com..._Systems/Linux/">???</a><br /><li /><a href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/">Google's very, very neat category on everything Linux</a><br /><li /><a href="http://virtunix.itribe.net">UNIX-like command-line utilities for Windows</a><br /><li /><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/">Various projects to bring UNIX functionality to Windows</a><br /><li /><a href="http://ha.redhat.com/">High Availability Server from Red Hat</a><br /><li /><a href="http://foobar.starlab.net/~soggie/linux-codecs/">Linux multimedia support</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Understand Linux config files:</b><br /><br /><li /><a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwor...ml?dwzone=linux">IBM</a><br /><li /><a href="<http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-config.html?dwzone=linux>IBM</a><br /><li /><a href="http://counter.li.org">The Linux Counter, that sites has got stats of the number of Linux users in the world</a><br /><br /><br /><br /></pre><hr>

wow! thanks!