PARD: Resources
Linux Online strives to provide you with a comprehensive set of resources
and services, from our own information to a well-organized set of links to
other www and ftp sites around the world.
This is a collection of information and documentation of interest to those
who now use or are considering using the Linux operating system on a
notebook or laptop computer.
I anatomize a successful free-software project, fetchmail, that was run as a
deliberate test of some surprising theories about software engineering
suggested by the history of Linux. I discuss these theories in terms of two
fundamentally different development styles, the cathedral model
of most of the commercial world versus the bazaar model of the
Linux world. I show that these models derive from opposing assumptions about
the nature of the software-debugging task. I then make a sustained argument
from the Linux experience for the proposition that "Given enough eyeballs,
all bugs all shallow", suggest productive analogies with other
self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some
exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software.
Linux Today is a resource for business professionals interested in
maintaining a high level of awareness of the news pertaining to Linux and
the Open Source communities.
The Linux Weekly News is a weekly report on happenings within the Linux
community. Check us out for current, complete, and concise news on the Linux
world.
LinuxFocus is a Free web magazine written by and for Linux fans. We
go beyond tips and tricks, focusing on in-depth articles and tutorials on a
variety of subjects.
A large indexed collection of pointers to Linux applications, utilities,
tools, device drivers, multimedia apps, editors, internet clients, web
servers, program development tools and libraries, and general Linux
resources on the web.
The Linux Archive Search (LAS) is a web site that is just what you are
looking for. It is a search engine that searches a database of the files
contained on several popular linux archives. The results are displayed in a
nice, hyperlinked list.
Debian and Red Hat are collaborating on a written specification of the
Linux Compatibility Standard (LCS). The LCS will clearly outline
the specifications necessary to be LCS compliant. This LCS document will be
used as a guideline on how to build a "proper" system by those building
Linux distributions, and it will be used by developers needing information
on the basic system configuration to develop application programs. We expect
this LCS effort to complement the example LSB implementation on which Bruce
Perens is working.
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The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in 1969,
about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects
of computing and computer communication focusing in networking protocols,
procedures, programs, and concepts, but also including meeting notes,
opinion, and sometimes humor.
The specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by
the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the
IESG), are published as RFCs.
© 1999 by Stefan Hornburg
<racke@linuxia.de>
Last modified 03. June 1999