Software
Follow any of the links below for extensive lists of applications that have been written for or ported to Linux.
- The FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation and the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
- freshmeat.net is a huge index of software and GUI themes with comment boards for every item.
- Wikipedia features a list of software that runs natively on Linux.
Reviews of Linux software
- Linux Journal has thousands and thousands of articles about, and reviews of, Linux software.
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December 2008, #176
The Oxford English Dictionary says the word "gadget" is a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember. Like that book-reader thingy from Amazon...what's it called? Spindle, Gindle...Kindle, that's it. Check it out in this month's gadget issue.
Other gadgets covered include the Nokia tablets, the BlackBerry, the Neo FreeRunner, the Dash Express, the Roku Netflix Player, the Kangaroo TV, The TomTom GO 930 and the MooBella Ice Cream System. On the larger hardware front, read the reviews of the Acer Aspire One and the YDL PowerStation. On the software front, check out the articles and columns on memcached, Samba security, Mutt, desktop gadgets, bash and Puppet. To wrap it all up, read Doc's thoughts on Google and the browser platform.
