Popular
and Useful Open Source Projects
Linux Distributions
www.debian.org
- At minihub we use Debian.
Other PC (non-Mac) Linux distributions you can look for
include: MandrakeSoft, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSe. For information
on Linux distributions, see www.linux.org/dist.
Obtaining a distribution will usually get you many of the
goodies below, so you can get started with a desktop windows
environment, office productivity programs and Internet programs
as well as much, much more just by getting yourself a copy
of a distro cd set.
Desktop Wiindows
Gnome
KDE
Office
OpenOffice
KOffice
Ximian Evolution
Internet
Browsers
Mozilla
Opera
Galeon
Email
QMail
Kmail
Evolution
Web editors and Content Managers
Quanta
Screem
BlueFish
Zope
Plone
Server & Security applications
Apache
- Web server
Samba
- File sharing between different OSs
Bind
- DNS Server
Qmail
- Email administration
Fetchmail - MTA
Squid
- web proxy cache
IPCop
- firewalling
GnuPG -
encryption
Development
Perl
Python
PHP
Database
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Design
GIMP |
