A page of links for those of you not yet familiar with Open Source Software and the Linux world.
The Free Software Foundation. What it's all about.
Smoothwall A Firewall that can run on older hardware.
The Gnome Organisation and
KDE are Desktop
environments and all include the applications you could want .
SuSE and
Red Hat are Linux distributions
Note: Linux distributions don't just give you an operating system.
You get web browsers, office suites, games, programming tools, etc... etc ..... etc ....
All the links below have Windoze versions (if you must).
OpenOffice.org An office productivity suite.
The GIMP Powerful image editing and creation package.
Firefox Is an open source web browser, Thunderbird is its email client.
Opera A web browser, (not open source).
These are just a small selection of what is available, but a good selection of places to start.
This page last changed: Friday, 12 November 2010.
© Neil Baker.