Links
Submitted by ben on 24 September, 2005 - 5:24pm.
- Area Open Source User Groups
- ASULUG - Arizona State University Linux users group.
- PLUG - Phoenix Linux users group.
- Phoenix Perl Mongers - Phoenix area Perl users group.
- AZ PHP Users group
- CMS's
- Zope
- Plone
- Joomla - A PHP-based CMS. The Mambo project developers' continuing work. Late in the summer of 2005 all Mambo developers left the Mambo project of differences with the sponsoring company. Joomla is the project and home for their efforts today.
- Drupal - Another PHP-based CMS. There are scores of modules for Drupal, and some find the layout of Drupal easier to customize than Mambo. There is also a project called Civicspace that combines drupal with several modules as well as aims to enable "bottom-up people-powered campaigns to operate on a more level playing field with more traditional top-down organizations, and, similarly, allows top-down organizations to leverage the power of grassroots organizing."
- MediaWiki
- Tikiwiki
- Distributions
- DistroWatch.com - From the site: "The DistroWatch web site was first published on 31 May 2001. ... First and foremost, news about release announcements of Linux distributions and *BSDs (both stable and development) are published ... [and] ... interesting reviews and interviews with distribution developers (in English) will also be published."
- Ututo GNU/Linux
- Debian GNU/Linux
- Fedora
- Red Hat Linux - "What began as a better way to build software--openness, transparency, collaboration--soon shifted the balance of power in an entire industry. The revolution of choice continues."
- Novell/SuSE Linux - A commercially oriented flaver of linux with desktop and enterprise branches similar to Red Hat. Novell SuSE Linux, on the desktop end, has an 8+ GB collection of software including winmodem and other proprietary driver support out of the box.
- Software
- Free Software Foundation - Free as in Freedom.
- Source Forge
- Freshmeat
- Icewalkers
- Programming resources/links
- The Perl Foundation - From the site: "The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code."
- Python
- Devshed.com - Open source web development tutorials, articles, as well as other good information on a wide array of languages and software.
- Interenet.com - Good place to start with your curious nature.
- Desktops
- The Gnome Desktop - Gnome desktop is a desktop suite and development platform for Unix and Linux.
- Xfce - "Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use."
- KDE - "KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system."
- Art and Culture
- Misc



