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• _Acronyms 
• _Ada Programming Language 
• _Adaptation for use by the handicaped  _Handicaped _Access; _Speech Recognition; _Voice Recognition
• _Archives:
• Mailing-Lists
• Usenet Newsgroups
• _Backing up  _Backups; _Archiving
• _Benchmarks  _Benchmarking; _BogoMIPS
• _Books  Specific books are listed only with their subject.
• _Browsers for internets  _Amaya, _Communicator, _Lynx, _Mnemonic, _Mozilla, _Netscape, _Opera
• _Business  _Accounting; _Bookkeeping; _Credit Card; _Smart Card; _Financial
• _Buying stuff  _Shopping; _Stores; Guides, etc. 
• _Character sets
• _Communication
• _CORBA, _ORB
• _Cryptography  Coding; Decoding; Encipher; Decipher; Encryption; Decryption; _PGP; Also see "Security". 
• _Country Links, Linux by language group
• _Databases
• _Dictionaries  of English. Also see Acronyms and Jargon
• _Directories  E-mail _addresses, _phone numbers, etc.
• _Domain names (root level names and meanings; i.e. _Country Codes); see in Internet 
• _Education  Linux in schools, learning games, etc.
• _E-Magazines related to Linux, Unix, and other Information Technologies
• _Emulators; _Emulation  _Calculators; _DOS; _DOSEMU; _Terminals; _Virtual Consoles/Terminals; _Windows; _WINE 
• _FAX and _FAXing
• _Files:
• Misc.  Undeletion; locate; _PDF; etc.
• _Configuration Files  Crude descriptions.
• _core Files
• File _Compression  ZIP; GZIP; BZIP2; LZO.
• File _Conversion  Also see "Word Processors"; most do some file conversion.
• _File Formats  _ELF; Graphical files; common filename extensions.
• _File Locks; File _Locking
• _File managers; file managment
• _Filesystems  _AFFS; _DEVFS; _Ext2; _FAT; _FAT32; _HFS; _HPFS; _Joliet; _NCPFS; _NTFS; _ppdd; _SMBFS; _VFAT; etc.
• _Forums, _BBSs, and WWW _Bulletin Boards  Also see "Mailing Lists" and "Newsgroups". 
• _Games  _Playstation
• _Government _Agencies, _Commissions, etc:
• _Graphics (Also see "Hardware/Video", "Editors/Viewers"):
Misc  _Art; _Drawing; _GIMP; _Greeting Cards; _Images; _Image processing; _Mesa; _OpenGL; _Photos; _PhotoCDs; _PNG; _Ray Tracing; _GIF; _Virtual Reality; _VMRL; _XV.
• _CAD/_CAE - Computer-Aided Design/Engineering  Also see "CASE" for SW Engr.
• _Diagramming  And other line drawings; not artistic drawing. Support for UML, OMT, _Flowcharting.
• _Fonts
• _GIS - Graphical Information Systems
• _GUIs  _CDE; _Desktop Environments; Also see X.
• _Video  _MPEG, _Multimedia; _Television; _TV
• _X, X11, X Window System  _Wallpaper; Also see GUIs.
• _Hardware, general subject:
• Misc Hardware Info.  guides, reviews, _upgrade info, etc.
• _Building or _Assembling a Computer
• _Compatibility
• _Cooling  of electronics.
• Linux Allocated Devices (about /dev/*) local copy web copy - plain ASCII listing of all the nodes in /dev/ with major minor #'s
• _Device _Drivers  Also see Kernel, Kernel Modules, and specific hardware devices.
• _EDA - Electronic Design Automation  And _VHDL.
• _IRQs - Interrupt Requests
• _PnP; Plug-n-Play; Plug-n-Pray
• _Silencing, _Quieting
• _Hardware, specific devices:
Note: For parallel port devices, be sure to see this which has a long list of related links.
• _Appliances, _HiFi, Lights, etc.   Control of same.
• _Bar Code Readers, Reading
• _BIOSes
• _Buses and other _Interfaces:
See under "Networking" for interfaces most often related to "networking".
Also see "Cabling".
• _I2O Special Interest Group  New standard for peripheral interfaces.
• _ISA and _EISA
• _Parallel Ports   And _Game Ports. Also see specific parallel port devices.
• _PCI
• _SCSI (controllers, general subject)
• Standard _Serial Interfaces:
• Serial Ports   Usage, drivers, programming, etc.
• Serial Port Cards   and associated software.
• _USB - Universal Serial Bus
• _Cables, _Cabling, and _Wiring  and _Fibre Optics; _Fiber Optics
• _Cameras
• _Cases, _Chassises and Racks for computers  AT; _ATX.
• _CDROM drives  Writers; Controllers; _DVD; Players.
• _Cell Phones, _Cellular Phones
• _CPUs; Computer _Architectures  _6x86 _Alpha _AMD _ARM _Cyrix _DEC _Hitachi _Intel _K5 _K6 _M2 _m68k _Macintosh, _MMX _Next _PowerPC _PPC _Sparc _x86
• _Disk Drives  _Floppy; _Hard; _IDE; _EIDE; _ATAPI; _Ultra-DMA; _UDMA; SCSI; _RAID.
• _Displays  _CRTs; _DPMS; _Eyeglass displays; _LCDs; _Monitors; _Visors.
• _Fans
• _GPS - Global Positioning System
• _Heatsinks
• _IR - InfraRed  Remote Control and other data transfer.
• _Memory  _RAM; _ROM; _EPROM; _ECC; _RAM DISK; _Swapping _ramdisk.
• Remote _Microscope Software  (view via an internet)
• _Modems  _answering machine; _cable; phone; _ISDN; _ADSL; _xDSL; _voice-mail.
• _Motherboards
• _Optical Disk HOWTO  How to use optical disk drives with Linux.
• _Pagers; _Paging; Wireless _Messaging; _SMS
• _Pointing Devices  _Joysticks; _Mice; _Mouses; _Pens; _Tablets; _Touch Pads; _Touch Screens; _Trackballs.
• _Portable Computing   _Calculators; _Laptops; _Notebooks; _Handhelds; HP _OmniBook; _Palm _Pilots; _PCMCIA; _PC Cards _apm. Also see "Ports of Linux".
• _Printers (and _Printing)
• _Radio  Commercial and HAM; _Satellite receivers; _Wireless LAN.
• _Routers
• _Scanners and _Scanning
• Misc. _Sensors   _Thermometers, _Environmental sensors, _Acceleration/_Vibration/_Tilt.
• _Sound  _Audio; Sound Cards; _DSP; Digital Signal Processors & Processing; _MIDI; _Music; _MP3.
• _Tape drives
• _Terminals; _Consoles; (HW)  & _VGA; _SVGA; Also see "Emulation".
• _Thin Clients  _X-terminals; _X terminals; _Network Computers; Network Computing.
• _UPS - Uninterruptable Power Supplies  Also see Power
• _Video hardware  _3Dfx; Video Cards; Graphics _Accelerators. Also see "Graphics/Video".
• _Watchdog Timer   watchdog.txt - how to auto-reboot Linux if it has "fallen and can't get up".
• _Zip Drive and _Jazz Drive
• _High-Availability, _Ruggedized, _Reliability, _Reliable
• _High-Performance Computing  _SMP; _Supercomputing; _Supercomputers; _Parallel Processing; _Distributed Computing; _Clusters.
• _History of Computing
• _Humor 
• _Icons  and logos and other "pics" and "graphics".
• _Internationalization  non-English, _foreign languages, _translations, _unicode, _Chinese, _Cyrillic, _Danish, _Finnish, _French, _German, _Hebrew, _Italian, _Japanese, _Polish, _Slovenian, _Spanish, _Thai. 
• _Jargon
• _Java 
• _Keys and _Keyboards 
• _Law, _Legal stuff:
• Miscellaneous Law  Including generic "_Intellectual Property"/"_IP" law.
• Software _Licencing, Software _Licences, Software Copyrights
• _Copyright Law
• _Trademarks and _Service Marks
• _Patents  See the examples - very scary.
• _Linux-specific topics (selected topics, grouped so they're less likely overlooked):
• _Applications and other _Software  Searchers, SW sites, etc.
• _Booting  _Boot Disks, _Startup, System _init, _XDM
• _Boot loaders  _LILO, _MILO, _SILO, _System Commander, _Power Boot
• _Computers with Linux Installed (_VARs of Linux Systems):
• Gary's list  Search linked page for "computer".
• List at MyVillage  Fairly long list.
• List at linux.org
• _Conferences, _Conventions and _Expositions
• _Corporations and _Companies  Lists of Linux supporters and others.
• _Documentation, General  including man pages, _HOWTOs, _mini-HOWTOs, and _FAQs.
• _Distributions  of the Linux OS. _Debian; _Red Hat; _Slackware; _SuSE; non-x86 ports; _floppy based Linux; etc.
• _Employment  Linux specific _jobs.
• Hall of Fame  Linux-friendly entities.
• Hall of Shame  Linux-unfriendly entities.
• Improving Linux  And how you can help.
• _Installing Linux
• _Kernel  and Kernel _Modules; _kerneld program.
• _Learning Linux  _Help, _New Users; _Newbies; Support; _Training; _Courses;
• Linux Counter  _Counter of Linux users who register there.
• _Magazines  Lists for Linux, Unix, and other Information Technologies.
• _Merchandise  Linux distributions, books, CDs, stickers, mugs, etc.
• _Organizations
• _Partitioning hard drives  _cfdisk; _fdisk; _fips; _Partition Magic.
• _People  Some of the people important to Linux.
• _Ports of Linux  to various computing hardware.
• _Projects
• _Promotion  of Linux, open-source, freeware, etc. _Advocacy; free web space; etc.
• _Rescue systems  and Rescue disks; _Emergency disks.
• _Specifications, & _Limits  (very incomplete)
• _Support, _Consultants, _Consulting
• _System Administration

General Subject; _Clock Setting; _Configuration; _find; _Linuxconf; Misc. Tools; _Optimization; _Quotas; _Performance _Tuning
• _Tips
• _User Groups
• Web Sites of Unknown or No Specialty (other than Linux)
• _Manual pages (_man pages)
• _Markup Languages  _HTML; _SGML; _XML.
• _Mathematics Software  _Laboratory SW; _Spreadsheets; _FFT.
• _Microsoft and M$ software  And "living with the Monster" resources.
• _Miscellaneous  And stuff not yet categorized.

(_Streams; _Family Trees) 
• _Newsgroups  _Usenet; _Newsreaders; &News Servers.
• _Networking  _ARP; _Arcnet; _AX25; _DHCP; _DNS; _NIS; _Proxy Servers; _UUCP; _YP.
• Also see LDP's Network Administrator's Guide at LDP.
• Connectivity other than TCP/IP:
• _ATM on Linux
• _DECnet for Linux  "A project to provide DECnet phase IV connectivity for Linux".
• _Mainframes and Mainframe Connectivity  _IBM; _SNA.
• _Diskless Computers
• _Ethernet  _Bridges; Network Adapters; _NICs; Network Interface Cards; also see "Cabling".
• _File Servers
• _Firewalls, _Firewalling
• _Firewire
• _Frame Relay
• _FTP - File Transfer Protocol
• _Internet  _Apache; _CGI; _e-commerce; _HTTP; _intranets; _irc; _privacy; _shopping cart; _spam; _thin servers; _web; _Web Browsers; _web servers; _WWW.
• _Interoperability: See specific alternative OSes.
• _IP - Internet Protocol  _IPv6; _TCP/IP; Firewalls; Firewalling; _IPX; _Masquerading; _NAT; other IP _translation; _Port Forwarding; _PLIP; _PPP; _PPTP; _SLIP; _aliasing; _dynamic addresses; _inetd.
• _ISP (Internet Service Provider) topics  Internet _Cafes; _Kiosks
• _ISPs  Free and very cheap ISPs for your Linux or other project.
• _LDAP
• _Load balancing
• _Mail & _Mailing Lists  _email; _e-mail; _procmail; _sendmail
• _Peripherals: See specific device or interface.
• _Remote operations  Using X11, etc.
• _Routing
• _Samba; _SMB
• IP _Subnetworking mini-HOWTO  Why and how to subnetwork an IP network.
• _Token Rings
• Virtual Services HOWTO  How to set up virtual hosting services.
• _VPN - Virtual Private Networking  Also see "PPTP".
• _Neural Networks, Neural Networking 
• _OCR - Optical Character Recognition
• _Operating Systems  _OSes other than Linux: _Apple/_Mac; _BSD; _Netware; _QNX; _Unix; others. 
• Information Managment _PIM (_Personal Information Managers/Management), _Calendar SW, _Scheduling SW, non-software _Production Scheduling and Management
• _Politics  Techno-Politics.
• _Power Control  _APC; _Battery power; _DPMS; UPS.
• _Presentation Tools
• _Process controls; _SCADA; _Industrial _Controls; _Automation; _DCS; _PCS; _PLC 
• _Real-time, _embedded systems, _single-board computers (_SBCs): 
• _Scientific Software  _Plotting SW, Data _Visualization SW.
• Seattle and Puget Sound area page  Stuff of local interest.
• _Security  _PAM (_Plugable Authentication Modules); _Kerberos; _Passwords; _Shadow Passwords; _Viruses.
• _Shells  and shell commands; _bash; _bourne; _sh; _Korn; _ksh; _tksh; _ssh.
• _Shutdown
• _Simulation Software
• _Software Development:

Articles; _Bison; Books; _CASE; _Compilers; _Compiling; _Flex; _Lex; _Project Management; _Project Scheduling; _Yacc
• _Debugging  _Bug tracking; SW _Testing
• GUI SW
• _IDEs - Integrated Development Environments  and _Project Managers.
• _Languages  _Ada; _assembler; _assembly; _Awk; _C; _C++; _Dylan; _Eiffel; _FORTRAN; _Guile; Java; _Objective C; _Perl; _Postscript (& _Ghostscript, _Ghostview); _Scheme; _Oberon.
• _Object-Oriented, _Object-Orientation  _UML
• _Packaging  _RPM; _DEB; _tar
• _Programming, misc
• _Quality Control, _Revision Control, _Configuration Control  _Quality Assurance; _QC; _QA; _RCS; _CVS; _Configuration Management.
• _Standardization & _Standards  Character sets; _FHS; _FSSTND; Linux; _RFCs; and others and links to other lists. 
• _Telecommunications, _Telephony
• _Threads, Threading
• _Time and Dates  Formats, Notation, etc.; _date
• _Troubleshooting
• _Tutorials  Also see specific subjects.
• _Tux  The Linux _Penguin _Mascot/Logo. 
• _Unit _Conversions: Entisoft Units Measurement Conversion Calculator
• _Upgrade; see in Linux Distributions, "Installing Linux"
• _User Groups 
• _Word Processing  Word Processors, Programming _Editors, _Page Layout, _Desktop Publishing _Office suites; _Emacs; _TeX; _vi; _Viewers; _Readers; Postscript; Ghostscript; Ghostview; _Spelling;
• _XML System  XML, SGML
• 
  Also see _Markup Languages, "Presentation Tools" and "File conversion". 
• _Y2K, _Year _2000 Problem 

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