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Unclassified	System tools
Programming and binary libraries	Developers' tools: IDE and more...
Games, amusements and related stuff	Database servers and tools
X, Xfree, window managers, X apps	Graphics and sound
Professional areas and collaboration tools	Non Linux programs and depots
Emulators and alike	Documents production, editing
Interesting documents and news	Kernel, drivers and distribution related
Net stuff, part I: no Web, no e-mail, no FTP...	Net stuff, part II: Web, mail, chatting, FTP and Co.
DVD and Video	Miscellanea, also some people's pages
Fast download (Italy)	Security (also see net stuff) and cryptography
Manga and comics!!!	Sci-fi and cinema
Photography for amateurs	Networking information and checks

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Interesting, unclassified links

• Gazzetta ufficiale italiana on-line 
  
• Chilling effects: defend your rights and the First Amendment 
  
• Emacspeak: great speech output system to allow those who cannot see to work with UNIX 
  
• Yacas (Yet Another Computer Algebra System) is a small, flexible computer algebra language 
  
• NeoBoard is a web based threaded message board written in PHP3  uses MySql
  
• XVoice enables speech to text translation for many X applications  accepts continuous speech input from IBM's ViaVoice SDK for Linux
  
• Jmol is a Free, Open Source molecule viewer and editor 
  
• SETI@home: a worldwide effort to find extraterrestrial intelligence 
  
• The Comic Book Database for Linux, to keep track of most facets of your comics collection 
  
• pctl is a configuration tool for IBM ThinkPad laptop computers 
  
• Alpha stage SW for ISPs 
  
• A-life based game 
  
• LeoCAD is a CAD that uses plastic building bricks similar to those found in many toys  requires OpenGL
  
• QCad: a powerful and easy to use CAD program for Linux 
  
• Yams: Yet another merchant system 
  
• Ehydra is a Java/XML application server  seems great!
  
• Scrivere come mestiere (IT) 
  

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System tools

• KSendmail, a nice graphical management system for Sendmail 
  
• RPM Builder is a GUI that builds RPM packages from tar.gz files 
  
• Purp is a nice, ncurses based RPM package manager 
  
• fresize resizes FAT16/32 partitions  does not need previous defrag
  
• Midnight Commander: don't talk to me if you dunno' this one 
  
• (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system 
  
• The fileutils package contains the GNU file management utilities 
  
• Drall is a script which allows users to access their directories and elies on the server's HTTP authentication and SSL for security 
  
• gentoo is a file manager written in C. It uses the GTK+ toolkit, and the two-pane concept 
  
• lsof is a Unix-specific diagnostic tool 
  
• The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for Unix systems 
  
• The Cool Zippi Tool is an X-Forms based compression front-end to 8 different compression methods 
  
• TkZip is an X front end to standard archiving/compression programs 
  
• afbackup is a client-server backup system 
  
• si is a Linux application that displays information gathered from the /proc filesystem 
  
• GNU parted allows you to create, destroy, resize and copy partitions 
  
• Finddups generates a listing of duplicate files by comparing the MD5 signatures 
  
• HDBENCH clone is a graphical benchmark software  CPU, video, disk
  
• Powertweak-Linux helps optimally tuning system devices 
  
• PCI utils: set and query PCI devices with Linux 
  
• gcombust is a gtk+ frontend for mkisofs, mkhybrid, cdrecord and cdlabelgen 
  

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Programming and binary libraries

• Internet C++: C++ to run everywhere! 
  
• ibsmb enables access to SMB shares in C++ programs under Unix 
  
• BlueJ is a very interesting JAva development environment 
  
• Toad: C++ X Windows library 
  
• Xclasses: X11 layout library for C++ 
  
• APE: C++ library for creating threaded servers 
  
• GAA helps C to deal with command line arguments 
  
• CPAN Perl Archives  (better use the mirrors)
  
• iODBC is a cross platform Driver Manager that comforms to the Microsoft ODBC 2.x and X/Open SQL CLI data access specs 
  
• The MM library is a 2-layer abstraction library which simplifies the usage of shared memory 
  
• Pingo is a C++ class library and framework for X Window System with OSF/MOTIF look-and-feel. It requires Motif/Lesstif 
  
• ClanLib delivers a platform independent interface to write games with 
  
• Dharma is a ODBC SDK 
  
• Altara netlib for Java is a set of classes that makes writing Java-based network clients easier 
  
• libtcp++ allows you to create C++ TCP/IP clients and servers without having to worry about gethostbyname, sockect, connect, bind, listen and accept 
  
• Low level Quicktime lib  for the unexperienced too
  
• TISSL is a Java/JNI implementation of Sun's SSL Reference API 
  
• Z Tool Kit aims to be a class library to make most difficult things easy (time, sockets...) 
  
• sdts++ is a free C++ toolkit for reading and writing Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) files 
  
• SkySOUND is a free audio library build on top of common audio libraries 
  
• EasyGTK is a wrapper lib to make GTK programming easier and quicker 
  
• The linbar utility reads from a serial port and puts characters to the specified console keyboard buffer (used for barcode readers) 
  
• A Java programming interface for incorporating IBM's ViaVoice speech technology 
  
• Libradio is a simple C library to control FM Tuner Cards  (if supported by the Video for Linux API)
  
• ibsigc++ implements a full -the most complete- callback system 
  
• The QpThread Library provides object oriented framework in C++ for threads and Unix signals 
  
• Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system 
  
• Cole is a free C OLE library 
  
• ORBit: an Object Request Broker aiming for CORBA 2.2 compliance 
  
• The LinuxClassLibrary (LCL): classes which everyone needs 
  
• FastGL is a high-Level C/C++ graphics library  built upon fast x86 asm code
  
• Hoard is a fast and memory-efficient allocator for shared-memory multiprocessors  should work on all Unices
  
• memwatch is an ANSI C fault tolerant memory leak and corruption detection tool 
  

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Developers' tools: IDE and more...

• eic is a powerful C interpreter (!) 
  
• ColdStore is a gigabyte-scale persistent object store 
  
• TCL Developer Studio is an environment for TCL/TK developers 
  
• Eraserhead RPG is an RPG/II, RPG/III compiler for Linux 
  
• JMap is an easy to use Java application to create HTML image map sources 
  
• The Fast Light Tool Kit is a LGPL'd C++ graphical user interface toolkit for X (UNIX®), OpenGL®, and Microsoft® Windows® NT or 9x 
  
• CMeister is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for developing applications in C language 
  
• xCode is a cross-platform virtual machine system that enables any C application to run portable bytecode modules which have access to exported functions in that host application 
  
• Zut is a back-end for displaying graphics and animations quickly and effortlessly 
  
• Glade is a Graphical User Interface builder suite using Gtk+ 
  
• The Test Environment Toolkit is a multi-platform uniform test scaffold 
  
• rpm2html automatically generates Web pages describing a set of RPM packages 
  
• SWI-Prolog is an Edinburgh-style Prolog compiler 
  
• Tcl provides a portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, and Macintosh 
  
• LyX is an advanced open source document processor for Unix 
  
• Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations 
  
• Builder Xcessory PRO for Linux is the industry's most advanced graphical user interface builder for Motif 
  
• CodeWarrior is an industrial-strength, easy-to-use IDE for building Linux applications 
  
• Guile 
  
• Lua-Linux is the version 3.1 Lua interpreter, optimized slightly for Linux 
  
• XEBOT is a GUI control/dialog builder allowing users to paint controls 
  
• code2html.pl converts a program's source code to syntax highlighted HTML 
  
• Xwpe is a programming environment for UNIX systems 
  
• FOX is a C++ based toolkit for GUI development  really seems worth a look
  
• OSE is an environment that supports the day to day activities of developers 
  
• The LDDK is designed to help programmers write character device drivers 
  
• Zut is a back-end for displaying graphics and animations  quickly, "pipe" pixel RGB values to it
  
• Code Crusader is a complete code development environment 
  
• QtEZ is a rapid application development environment that dumps source code native to Qt  Supports KDE
  
• Chaperon checks Linux x86 programs for bad behavior in accessing memory 
  

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Games, amusements and related stuff (also check the emulators section)

• Adonthell, an amazing "RPG" (do they really think PC stuff is real RPG?) 
  
• The Ace of Penguins - X games  (cards, solitaire...)
  
• Flight Gear is an impressive simulator 
  
• "Solfege"... what do they mean with "entertainment program?" 
  
• Crystal Space is an impressive 3D engine 
  
• LAGII runs AGI games natively under Linux  like the Sierra classics Kings Quest, Space Quest,...
  
• PSXDEV is a free GPL'd development environment for the PlayStation (PSX) 
  
• Universe: a Space Strategy game like Master of Orion  Java code, then for many platforms
  
• Ssystem: travel into the Solar System 
  
• Xephem: complete astonomical program 
  
• Terraform allows you to create fractal terrain 
  
• GCD is a full-featured cd-player with a gtk+ interface 
  
• GF1 is a computer program for playing the 2 player boardgame GIPF 
  
• LIMP is an attempt to distill the Linux community's spirit down into one cool looking poster 
  
• Linux Snipes is a reimplementation of an old text-mode DOS game 
  
• KChess is a KDE front end to chess engines like gnuchess and crafty 
  
• tux_aqfh is a game in which Tux the Penguin must collect Golden Herring, etc. 
  
• Disc-cover provides an easy way to produce covers for audio cds 
  
• Realmlifes is a fantasy roleplaying game in which each non-player character is AI-controlled 
  
• Worm Zone is a multi-player worm game with Linux, win32 and DOS ports 
  
• Quadra is a fine multiplayer puzzle game  Tetris-like
  
• GFingerPoken is a BlackBox-type game written in C with graphics in POV-Ray 
  
• Gtuner is a gtk/gnome based radio card tuner that supports numerous different radio cards 
  
• Urban, for the town is a jungle 
  

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Database servers and tools

• PostgreSQL homepage 
  
• BeagleSQL is a new, interesting DB 
  
• SQL frontend to MySQL, PostgreSQL, Solid and more... 
  
• MySQL, a powerful DB server 
  
• ASP2PHP: conversion from ASP to PHP. Cool! 
  
• MySQL is a powerful DB  (though it's SQL is limited)
  
• E*Reminders: PHP scripts that interact with MySQL to setup E-mail reminders for any event 
  
• acs-interbase/ACS is powerful DBMS backed Web collaboration tool 
  
• The Berkeley Database provides embedded database support for applications 
  
• Town: Java API on top of the JDBC API. Makes easier to interact with JDBC-compliant databases 
  
• Oracletool is a Perl CGI script for browsing the Oracle data dictionary 
  
• dbMan is a simple SQL monitor for common database systems 
  
• DBE (Database Expander) allows editing of database tables using PHP3 and a Web browser 
  
• The well known Mini SQL (mSQL) database system 
  
• OWSKiller is a free, great replacement for the Oracle Web Server using Java Servlet technology 
  
• gor is a 100% pure Java library that can be used to transform DB records into XML 
  
• Virtuoso provides transparent access to your existing data base sources 
  
• Max allows compiling and running Xbase code on Linux. Plus some web support 
  

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X, Xfree, window managers, X apps

• XFCE window manager 
  
• Eterm is a vt102 terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm 
  
• Xfstt -means X11 Font Server for TT fonts- 
  
• With Xfsft (patch), X11R6 servers and xfs can use TrueType fonts 
  
• IcePref is a graphical configuration utility for Ice WM 
  
• XawTV is a simple Xaw-based TV program which uses the bttv driver or video4linux 
  
• KVideoGen allows for easy generation of Modelines, as used by XFree86 
  
• A graphical frontend for the XAnim movie player 
  
• HFM is a font manager for Unix systems 
  
• Linux Banshee drivers 
  
• Nano-X is a tiny X server replacement for small systems such as palmtops 
  
• Xvidmode is a small tool to get the current or all X video modes 
  
• XGGI is a partly accelerated and fully multihead capable X server which uses LibGGI 
  
• FVWM is a multiple large virtual desktop window manager 
  
• NDIVIA releases XFree for all of its chips! 
  
• EPI window manager 
  
• gfontview is a small GTK+ font viewer for PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts 
  
• ptkfonted is a BDF (the common X11 screen font format) font editor  written in Perl and Tk
  
• XNotesPlus, a very rich sticky-notes (PostIt) program 
  
• Sapphire is a fast and small window manager for X11 
  
• xspeakfree is a Tcl/Tk frontend to Speak Freely 
  
• sawmill is a minimal, yet interesting window manager 
  
• Open Motif can be found here. Wow! 
  

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Graphics and sound

• Sphinx is an impressive speech recognition engine 
  
• mpg123 Mpeg3 player  fast, text based
  
• ImageMagick (TM) is a package for display and interactive manipulation of images for the X Window System 
  
• OSS provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux 
  
• Rasca is an audio player, that supports mp3's and wavs 
  
• MpegCam: Mpeg your B&W cam capture 
  
• NADS created a Linux based version of their digital image archive system Pixelboxx 
  
• IPAD is an intelligent vector drawing package 
  
• Grip is a gtk-based cd-player and cd-ripper 
  
• CDR-Toaster is a Tk frontend for writing CDs 
  
• Zgv is a graphic file viewer  uses svgalib
  
• CompuPic is an interactive multimedia file manager and manipulation program 
  
• eXtace is a visual sound display/analysis program for Gnome 
  
• cdrecord creates both audio and data CDs  look here for a CD firmware upgrader, too
  
• The Mops is a 3D modeling environment  written in C with Tcl/Tk
  
• gAlan for X allows you to build synthesisers, mixers, drum-machines... by linking icons  "audio processing tool"
  
• mvCM creates bitmap and vector animations under Linux  interesting mix of vector and raster images
  
• a cool music player (MP3s, MODs,...) for X 
  
• mpegrec records mp3 and wav from soundcard input 
  

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Professional areas and collaboration tools

• Teamware is a collaboration full-flagged product 
  
• WebEvent is a web-based calendar and scheduling application 
  
• Varkon, a 2D/3D CAD for Linux also  (free for Linux only)
  
• Linux-Kontor: a project for a free business management software suite 
  
• EDA is a GPLed toolset for doing electronic design 
  
• The Littlefish Health Project is to provide high quality Patient information and recall software for use in developing countries 
  
• freemed is a medical management software package that runs in a web browser 
  
• freemed, alternate site  the first one may have problems
  
• LinuDent is a dental practice management software 
  
• OBM is an Intranet application which goal is to help manage a company 
  
• Mesa/Vista is an integrated project data management tool 
  
• CCF is a collection of programs which enable remote collaborators to work together 
  
• The Market Analysis System (MAS) 
  
• CYCAS is a 2D-3D CAD software for Linux 
  
• OBM helps managing a company (via Intranet)  also a contact and customer database
  
• FreeVet is a Animal Clinic System built using the Qt toolkit  should help for most of the tasks
  
• Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program  E/R, UML, net,...
  

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Non Linux programs and depots

• PetrOS O.S. aims to be fully DOS and Win95 compatible 
  
• Cracking software 
  
• Free software for Solaris 
  
• Driverzone: find rare and obsolete drivers (for MS products) 
  
• NetBSD homepage  a free operating system for many platforms
  
• FreeBSD homepage  a free operating system for i386's
  
• Download.com 
  
• Large icons depot  plus links to other similar ones
  
• Vectorial maps for HandMap 
  

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Emulators and alike

• PLEX86 is a virtual PC  exactly like VMWare
  
• SNES ROMs 
  
• DOSemu: run DOS shells and programs 
  
• VMWare allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside Linux  you can even boot NT!
  
• Wine Is Not an Emulator, but an alternative implementation of the Win 3.x and Win32 APIs 
  
• Snes9X is a portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator 
  
• VICE is a Versatile Commodore Emulator  current version emulates the C64, the C128, the VIC20 and most PET models
  
• DGen/SDL is a free, open source emulator for Sega Genesis/MegaDrive systems 
  
• UAE is a mostly complete emulation of the Amiga  500/1000/2000 hardware
  
• NEStra is a NES emulator for Linux-x86 and X11  interesting architecture
  

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Documents production, editing

• StarOffice suite reborn free  A must!!!
  
• StarOffice, full, multiplatform, MS Office-compatible office suite 
  
• Multilingual text editor  plus utility for PS
  
• August is an HTML editor for Unix 
  
• MSWordView is a program that understands the Microsoft Word 8 binary file format (Office97) and is able to convert Word documents into HTML 
  
• jEdit is a text editor written in Java 
  
• ftped: Simple menu-driven editor 
  
• epssplit is a Perl program that allows an encapsulated postscript (EPS) file to be split into a number of smaller files 
  
• AbiWord is a cross-platform Open Source word processor 
  
• Ted is a wysiwyg rich text editor running under X Windows 
  
• SDF documentation system generates high quality output in multiple formats 
  
• Swift-Generator is a utility like Macromedia Generator 
  
• biew is a binary editor with a disassembler  code up to Athlon
  
• txt2pdf is an excellent text to PDF converter 
  

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Interesting documents and news

• A book on Java 
  
• File formats defs repository 
  
• Progetto Manuzio (IT): e-text  often slow...
  
• Cryptome about international security  relevant!
  
• Project Gutemberg  e-texts!
  
• Netscape developers' archive  Wow!!!
  
• Huge!!! The usenet FAQ archive  this is a must
  
• Map the Internet? This is crazy!  Internet Mapping Project
  
• Linux Focus  great place!!!
  
• Linux developers' resources in IBM 
  
• Unix vs. NT  Useful also for comparing various Unicies
  
• Tom's hardware reviews and tests 
  
• Anandtech hardware reviews and tests 
  
• Ace's hardware reviews and tests 
  
• Good docs for computing 
  
• Linux today 
  
• LDAP 
  
• various resources 
  
• cool Java/XML and Co. articles here 
  
• Searchable Linux hardware database 
  
• Tips 
  
• Wordreference, excellent online dictionary 
  
• Dictionaries on line 
  
• health and electromagnetic fields 
  
• Unix power 
  
• The Penguin Files is a list of links to show your boss about Linux 
  
• Hardware tests 
  
• Encyclopedia: an incredible Linux links collection by Gary 
  
• Software and hardware news 
  
• E-commerce Guide 
  
• Osservatorio sul Commercio elettronico (IT) 
  
• Ars Technica 
  
• New Scientist 
  
• The typing injury FAQ site 
  
• U-geek: SW and HW tests 
  
• Site about Lotus Notes 
  
• Space mission control: FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION 
  
• Punto informatico notizie (IT) 
  

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Kernel, drivers and distribution related

• Intel AC '97 "mid" driver 
  
• Linux Hardware Database  rich!
  
• mpman MP3 player driver 
  
• Creative products open source drivers 
  
• kernel 2.2.6 patch for manipulating the MSR (machine specific registers) of x86 CPUs 
  
• TurboLinux Cluster Web Server, a high availability, high performance, clustering solution for Linux 
  
• The GATOS (General ATI TV and Overlay Software) Project is an effort to create drivers for all currently unsupported features of ATI video cards 
  
• gnokii is a Unix tool suite and modem/fax driver for Nokia GSM mobile phones 
  
• sblive is a Linux Driver for the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 
  
• CClinux is a one-floppy distribution, based on 2.2.x kernels  includes tools, easy to change
  
• Enoch is an advanced, highly optimized GNU/Linux distribution  Pentium, Pentium Pro/II/III and AMD K6 optimized code in 5 different distributions
  
• a read-only NTFS filesystem driver for Linux 
  
• ELKS Linux subset for small CPUs  (8086/286, palmtops,...)
  
• This is an XFree86 XInput driver for Wacom tablets 
  
• Mobitex Radio Modem Driver for Linux 
  
• Linux driver for a cheap serial 8 Channel ADC by the German supplier Conrad Electronic 
  
• Creative page for Linux drivers 
  
• Card Services for Linux is a complete PCMCIA (PC Card) support package 
  
• Coda is a distributed filesystem with novel features 
  
• Drivers for the DAC960 PCI Raid Controller  
  
• reiserfs is a revolutionary file system  stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a B*-tree
  
• Linux driver for BFS, a filesystem used in SCO UnixWare 
  
• Iomega Zip drivers for kernels 2.0.x  no longer needed with kernel 2.2.x
  
• SANE: Scanner Access Now Easy  use scanners with Linux
  
• speechd implements a /dev/speech device  all plaintext written to it is spoken
  
• Artec scanner 6E driver for Linux 
  

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Net stuff, part I: no Web, no e-mail, no chatting, no FTP

• OpenVRML toolkit and progs 
  
• A VRML browser source code 
  
• OpenLDAP Project: to provide a robust, commercial-grade LDAP suite 
  
• DWUN keeps a PPP connection as long as clients in your (presumably masqueraded) LAN need it 
  
• Rpc_Gotcha: a network based intrusion detection tool  for rpc based scans and attacks
  
• Exim is a message transfer agent  similar to Smail 3, with more facilities
  
• Ksniffer is based on iptraf. Knows most IP protos 
  
• KAphone: Internet phone 
  
• GQ is a GTK LDAP client 
  
• killpppd is a simple SUID executable which allows a user to bring down pppd without needing su, sudo or a root login 
  
• kppp is a dialer and front end for pppd. It allows for interactive script generation and network connection setup 
  
• Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMS for booting Linux and other operating systems on x86 PCs over a network using Internet Protocols, i.e. bootp/DHCP and tftp 
  
• Nettest monitors network connections  takes some action (email, bell...) if the connection goes down
  
• tcpgate is a tcp gateway/proxy 
  
• Big Brother's stats for the Web site  (set of CGI-BINs)
  
• netatalk: let Linux speak AppleTalk! 
  
• vpnd is a daemon which connects two networks on network level  All data transfered between the two networks are encrypted
  
• The Multi Router Traffic Grapher is a tool to monitor the traffic load 
  
• iplog is a collection of daemons that log tcp, udp, and icmp traffic 
  
• mklinuxfw is a project to make the best possible firewall configurator for multiple platforms 
  
• The MRT package includes a full-featured routing daemon (MRTd) and routing tools 
  
• SLinux Kernel features enhanced protection against network floods and scan 
  
• VTun is the easiest way to create Virtual tunnels over TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, compression, and encryption 
  
• a Linux network device driver for Lucent Technologies' WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 wireless network card 
  
• Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing 
  
• WAN Adapters with Linux driver support 
  
• LinuxGT Server Edition is a VERY robust server solution that integrates into near any existing environment 
  
• Dante is a free implementation of the proxy protocols socks ver. 4, socks ver. 5 and msproxy 
  
• Printerspy is a tool to monitor SNMP-capable printers 
  
• GNU Zebra manages TCP/IP based routing protocols 
  
• Authen::Smb allows you to authenticate against NT domain controllers from UNIX 
  
• Tinyproxy is a lightweight, easy to use, HTTP proxy 
  
• CTM works as a daemon and polls SNMP capable routers at regular intervals 
  
• Ganymede is a GPL'ed network directory management system  similar in concept to Novell Directory Services
  
• proxyarp provides a method of transparent routing based on RFC 1027  often used to share a subnet in more nets
  
• eEMU is a complete, enterprise level event manager  I mean, a host management system like Patrol
  
• IPPS is a TCP/IP Port Scanner 
  
• NetSaint monitors hosts and services on a network 
  
• DeleGate is a multi-purpose, powerful application level gateway 
  

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Net stuff, part II: Web, mail, chatting, FTP and Co.

• Mino library processes XML files. You can also exploit it for on-the-fly conv to HTML 
  
• UdmSearch is a free, SQL-based, full-featured Web search engine 
  
• Apache: the best Web server is free! 
  
• Perlfect Search: a web site indexing/searching CGI app  powerful and versatile
  
• Melange is a chat server 
  
• Saint is a Satan-based security checker 
  
• IDS POP is a small, fast, and efficient POP3 server 
  
• GNUPG is a free and GPLed PGP replacement tool 
  
• Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists 
  
• AMaViS scans e-mail attachments for viruses using third-party virus scanners 
  
• bookmarker is a WWW based application for managing bookmarks 
  
• fetchmail, a full-featured, robust, well-documented mail retrieval and forwarding utility 
  
• Epop integrates POP3 client-server functionality into one package 
  
• Mozilla was born from Netscape Communicator, coded by the Free Software Community 
  
• Zope is a platform for building high-performance, dynamic web sites 
  
• Analog is a WWW logfile analysis program 
  
• Services, greater IRC tools and operator control over the net 
  
• Amaya, a complete web browsing-authoring environment 
  
• Squid is a high performance Web proxy cache 
  
• Sugarplum is an automated spam-poisoner 
  
• IMP allows web access to every type of IMAP server that we know about 
  
• Dftpd is a flexible Linux FTP daemon  fully Web configurable
  
• Edcom is a story posting system 
  
• lftp, a great, text based FTP client  thread requests: put downloads in the background and go on!
  
• Bang is a multi-user 3D browser with support for persistent virtual worlds and avatars 
  
• Arrow is an elegant, powerful, graphical interface to electronic mail 
  
• qmail is a modern replacement for sendmail 
  
• QmailAdmin provides a web interface for managing a qmail system 
  
• webbase is an Internet crawler  manages millions of URLs
  
• Getleft: copy a site, converting absolute links into relative ones and active pages in the actual ones 
  
• HB is some sort of extended HTML with modular capabilities  looks fine
  

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DVD and Video

• My DVD page (EN) 
  
• My DVD page (IT) 
  
• Dxr2 project on Sourceforge 
  
• Heroine: top quality video tools for Linux  GREAT!!!
  
• Dynamic Italia (IT) 
  
• 7th zone, formerly DVD Utils  a lot of stuff
  
• DVD reviews, well sorted! 
  
• A number of DVD and audio hardware reviews  numerous users' comments
  
• DVD Review  title reviews
  
• DVD Journal  title reviews
  
• DVD Verdict  title reviews
  
• The good and the very bad stuff site  see it yourself
  
• Fresh zone 2 DVDs  prices in Swiss currency
  
• Creative products open source drivers  (IT)
  
• Anime DVD Italia  (IT)
  
• DVD 
  
• Dxr2  seems a dead link now, try from http://www.ee.tut.fi/~kent/
  
• DVD titles shop 
  
• DVD titles reviews 
  
• Encore BIOS upgrade 
  
• Encore BIOS upgrade 
  
• DVD 
  
• DVD shop  no shipping cost, high prices
  
• DVD 
  
• A DVD decoder driver for an ideal -not existing!- DVD 
  
• The DVD Media Center 
  
• ComputerONE media shop 
  
• DVD Italia 
  
• DVD shop (italiano) 
  
• Another Italian DVD shop 
  
• Linux drivers for the Encore Dxr2  now part of the kernel
  
• Linux Video and DVD Project  COOL!
  
• Info and products about the world of video  (IT)
  
• Lot of titles and DVD hardware reviews 
  
• DVDtidbits download section 
  
• AC-3 SW decoder (Linux and Solaris) 
  
• hidden features (Easter eggs) in DVD titles 
  
• DVD in Australia 
  

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Miscellanea, also some people's pages

• (IT) indimenticabile gruppo musicale italiano  show anni '70
  
• (IT) gazzetta ufficiale italiana 
  
• A great resource for gardeners  Ubi approved!
  
• About the highlands, for Italian fans (IT)  there's a real pub, too
  
• Brian Kernighan!!! 
  
• Dennis Ritchie!!! 
  
• Ken Thompson!!! 
  
• Bill Joy!!! 
  
• Steve Jobs!!! 
  
• Internet Bookshop Italia 
  
• Il libro nella Rete (IT) 
  
• John Campbell 
  
• Cover Action Quarterly  do not meet CIA if you read this!
  
• La Nostra Africa (IT) - news - solidarity 
  
• Send SMS messages 
  
• MP3s 
  
• Buy incredible hardware at Computer Surplus  ...if the shipping cost cannot kill you!
  
• The Linux Store sells Linux-ready servers and workstations 
  
• (IT) links to sites for games cracking 
  
• (IT) Motonline  prezzi e descrizione, usato e nuovo
  
• (FR) La revue du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel belges 
  
• The Independent Film Channel 
  
• indieWIRE, independent cinema  daily updates
  
• Flicker: alternative cinematic experiences in movies 
  
• filmmag.com, independent cinema 
  
• Things about Sardegna (Sardinia) and other places  (IT)
  
• A U2 fan also provides lyrics translations  (IT)
  
• (IT) Italian cities interactive maps 
  
• Tea! Tea! Tea! 
  
• This in fieri italian site is curious 
  
• Send SMS messages for free and more 
  
• Mmmm! Obsolete discounted hardware (IT) 
  
• Arti Marziali (IT) 
  
• Obesi Web (IT)  siete obesi? che ne pensano...
  
• O-Zone (IT) 
  
• C.R.E.S.C.O. (IT)  Associazione culturale qui ospite
  
• Voicedialoge (IT)  Occhio alla sezione sogni
  

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Fast download (Italy)

• PHP.net mirror 
  
• KDE 
  
• Gnome 
  
• FTP3 site 
  
• Flashnet serviceFTP 
  
• VOLftp flight sim  often too slow
  
• VOLftp mirrors  often too slow
  
• Many Linux distributions and tools  also SuSE
  
• ELETTRA  look in pub/www for Netscape
  
• Unimi  look in pub/www for Netscape
  
• (Roma) Netscape, SuSE, X11, Slackware  also Sparc, Red Hat, Adobe, Apple, Info-Mac, Digital, Simtel...
  
• Netscape 
  
• Linux Gazette (lg, lgei) via LVJ 
  
• Tons of Linux stuff, CD images included  Mandrake, XFree86, linuxppc, linux68k, Sunsite, Linux Gazette
  
• Mandrake mirror (Ferrara) 
  
• Mandrake mirror 
  
• Various  Id software, McAfee, some drivers -most video
  
• Linux kernel (FTP) 
  
• Linux kernel (HTML) 
  
• Linux kernel (HTML) 
  
• Mandrake mirror (Roma)  also KDE
  
• Linux and Laptops mirror 
  
• Gnome official mirror 
  
• FreeBSD mirror 
  
• SuSE mirror (Rome) 
  

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Security (also see net stuff) and cryptography

• (USA) Protection Center, news and more 
  
• Security portal 
  
• Cryptography 
  
• Linux munitions, a comprehensive archive of crypto SW 
  
• A BestCrypt volume (a single file) can be mounted as a file system 
  
• XML Security Suite will push the security further 
  
• A C++ encryption library library 
  
• Secure SHell provides strong authentication and secure communication  it is intended as a replacement for rlogin, rsh, rcp, and rdist
  
• mcrypt is a replacement for the old unix crypt 
  
• Fiasco is a microkernel with real-time capabilities running on x86 PCs 
  
• The mhash library provides an easy to use C interface for several hash algorithms 
  
• install-ssh is a tool that downloads, compiles and installs RPMS of SSH 
  
• dirtypgp (for X): cut, paste and (de)cipher text, with the PGP package 
  
• hacking info 
  
• hacking and security 
  
• EFF hacking archive 
  
• Phrack magazine, hacking 
  
• 2600 magazine, hacking 
  
• like Hotmail, plus encryption 
  
• Privacy Guard Glue is a well-designed C library to add GnuPG support to applications 
  
• ya-wipe deletes data so that it is virtually impossible to retrieve it 
  
• BET's Encrypted Talk is an encrypted version of talk  US only!
  
• Some interesting tools  esp. to check if files have changed
  
• radiusd-sql: modified version of Ascend radiusd that stores its accounting info in MySql  tested with Livingston portmaster and Ascend Max terminal servers
  
• SCEZ: a library for handling smart cards (not memory cards) and card readers  check about supported readers
  
• T.U.T. is a UDP/TCP tunneler (client and server modes). Supports RC4 Encryption 
  

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Manga and comics!!!

• Anime... 
  
• Where to buy 
  
• links 
  
• shop 
  
• Wangazine  (IT)
  
• La Fortezza delle Scienze  (IT) 80's serials here
  
• Gundam!!! 
  
• Martin Mystere page  (IT)
  
• Conan (manga) page  (IT) also look for more manga here
  
• Fumetti! News! (IT) 
  
• Manga! News! (IT) 
  

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Sci-fi and cinema

• (IT, EN) Media SALLES  interesting cinema here, esp.lly for schools
  
• indieWIRE, independent cinema  daily updates
  
• Battlestar Galactica 
  
• HDTTIANI - la fantascienza on-line  (IT)
  
• The Art of Michael Whelan 
  
• Tutto l'orrore e la fantascienza in TV  (IT)
  
• Star Trek site 
  
• The Internet Movie Database 
  
• NigraLatebra links (IT) 
  
• NigraLatebra (IT) 
  
• Fantascienza!!! (IT) 
  
• sf made in Italy (IT) 
  

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Photography for amateurs

• Medium format "megasite" 
  
• reviews (films, equipment) of non-too-old stuff 
  
• Akinda: la tribù dei fotografi (IT) 
  
• The colours 
  
• Links regarding lenses -test sheets 
  
• HF net (IT) photography books on sale 
  
• Photodo; products section is full of tests 
  
• Data about cameras and lenses 
  
• Photoamateur resources 
  
• Italian photo site  (IT)
  
• ROWI: optics and co. 
  
• Craig camera to buy the infindable 
  
• A primer 
  
• Camera quest 
  
• Nikon MTF lens tests: links 
  
• KievUSA 
  

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Networking information and checks

• Check about IP addresses 
  
• Assigned IP addresses at IANA 
  
• Verificare che un numero possa passare ad ADSL  (IT)
  

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