Other Internet Software
Some of the most important software that runs the Internet is open source. BIND
BIND, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, makes the DNS work. Without it, you’d be typing addresses like 204.148.40.9 instead of www.oreilly.com. Bind was originally created as part of one of the great early free software […]
The following companies and organizations are clearinghouses for a variety of open source and free software . Prime Time Freeware
Prime Time Freeware (PTF) publishes mixed-media (book/CD-ROM) collections of freeware, otherwise known as freely redistributable software.
The Written Word
Provides precompiled Open Source binaries for Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64 UNIX, and […]
An advanced BSD UNIX operating system for “PC-compatible” computers, developed and maintained by a team of volunteers. There are several active BSD efforts. bsd.org
An umbrella site for all versions of BSD, both free and commercial.
FreeBSD
The home site for FreeBSD.
One of the big two in the browser and server market. Netscape made their code open source in the spring of 1998. Netscape
Netscape home.
mozilla.org
mozilla.org is Netscape’s central point of contact and community for those interested in using or improving their source code.
A free implementation of a UNIX-like OS for personal computers created by Linus Torvalds. Debian GNU/Linux: The Universal Operating System
Debian is a free operating system built on the Linux kernel. Included with it are over 1526 packages (precompiled applications).
The GNU Project began in 1984 when Richard Stallman wrote a UNIX compatible operating system and gave it away for free. The GNU Project is also dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying, redistribution, understanding, and modification of computer programs. GNU Project
The home for Project GNU.
Cygnus Solutions
Cygnus provides single-source, UNIX, and Win32 […]
Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a scripting language written by Larry Wall, with contributions from thousands of others. In the words of Hassan Schroeder, Sun’s first webmaster, “Perl is the duct tape of the Internet.”
More than 50% of all web servers are powered by Apache. Apache was created by a loose confederation called the Apache Group who started out with a few “patches” to the web server originally created at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA–the same outfit that built the original Mosaic browser). They […]