Links

History

• Unix History
• Emacs Timeline shows a family tree of GNU Emacs and major related projects, 1976-present.

Howto / Documentation

• Linux Documentation Project
• Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO provides a set of design and implementation guidelines for writing secure programs for Linux and Unix systems

Howto / Documentation (in French)

• Ressources Linux
• Léa Linux
• Le système d'exploitation Linux
• KernelConfig

Tunning

• Linux Performance Tuning

Kernel

• Kernel Traffic is a weekly newsletter covering some activities of the kernel development mailing list.
• The C10K problem shows few notes on how to configure operating systems and write code to support thousands of clients.

Distribs / Mini Distrib / LRP / µClinux

• Comparison of Linux Distributions This site is an attempt to provide a basic feature list and a package comparison table of the major, minor and regional Linux distributions.
• Linuxiso is where you can download fresh ISOs, just like mom used to burn.
• µClinux project is a port of Linux to systems without a Memory Management Unit (MMU).

Articles

• The Rise of ``Worse is Better'' explains why mediocrity has better survival characteristics than perfection, using Unix's triumph over the Lisp Machines as an illustration.
• A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux or how to make a 45 bytes ELF file.

Programming Language

• The Great Computer Language Shootout is a benchmark comparison of a number of programming languages.
• 409 Examples in 127 programming languages
• Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook is following the great Perl Cookbook, which presents a suite of common programming problems solved in the Perl language. This project aims to gather fans of programming, in order to implement the solutions in other programming languages.