Other cool Internet sites
All pages are in the United States unless otherwise noted, and they
are in English unless the description is not in English.
About the World Wide Web
- The World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C), the World Wide Web standards people. The
W3C is the home of the Amaya WWW browser. (Amaya
is still under development; binaries are available for Linux/i386 and
SparcLinux, and so is source [but it requires Motif to compile].)
- Here's a gratuitous Mozilla
link for your edification.
- Arena
development has been taken over by Yggdrasil: new versions support HTTP 1.1 and are covered under
the GPL.
- A new version of Chimera, another X11-based WWW browser, is in Alpha.
- The Emacs w3-mode web browser (aka GNUscape) is pretty neat (and supports
inlined graphics within XEmacs). If you're using
Emacs to create web pages, you may also want to use HTML Helper Mode,
which includes features like templates and automated datestamps. I
use it for all of my pages.
- For those of you with a text-only surfing jones, try Lynx, the web browser without
graphics (which is the browser I use 99% of the time).
- If you're interested in setting up a web server, check out Apache, the most popular web server in
the world (and it's totally free). Several of our mirror sites
use this software.
- Roxen is another good, free
web server.
Programming Languages
- Check out Python, a very
powerful scripting language that (IMHO) beats the pants off Perl and Tcl for general programming any
day of the week. Python is used by Infoseek in its web robots and forms the core of the Red Hat distribution's installer.
It is also used to generate the headers and footers for these pages.
See also:
- The Grail web
browser's home page. Grail supports applets written in Python.
- FindNew.py, a Python script I wrote which
checks for updated web pages on a hotlist. [this site]
- Euclid.py, which finds the greatest common
divisor of two integers (I wrote it for my Elementary Number
Theory class). [this site]
- MirrorTo.py, which mirrors from your
disk to a remote disk. It's a hacked version of the mirror script
that comes in the Python tools collection. I recommend using rsync instead unless you can't
install binaries on your target system.
- Minimum Spanning Trees in Python (my
Introduction to Algorithms project for Fall
1997). [this site]
- For those Amiga users who still boot into AmigaOS occasionally (I
can't imagine why you'd want to ;), there's also an AmigaOS port.
- Coming soon(?): My port of RoutePlanner (a highway trip planner) to Python/Tkinter. The
Python 1.5 release has it closer to an acceptable speed on 68040-class
machines (and it's great on a PowerPC... I just need to sit down and
fix the bugs).
- See also: Games!.
- Perl 5's home
page, for those of you who enjoy writing and reading code that looks
like line noise.
- The Tcl and Tk home page.
Also check out The Tix Project,
a good GUI toolkit for Tcl/Tk.
- The JOLT Project is an effort to create a completely free
implementation of Java.
Emulation and Universal APIs
- The Ubiquitous Amiga
Emulator. [Germany]
- The Amiga Research OS project.
Another approach to AmigaOS emulation/duplication, which has run at
least some AmigaOS binaries under Linux/m68k :-). [Sweden]
- Convergence is an
effort to develop a universal API for non-Wintel software to link
against.
Graphics Formats and Tools
- The PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format has its own web pages. PNG is generally
considered to be superior to the GIF format, which it is intended to
replace; it is now supported by most major web browsers.
- xearth is a neat, CPU-intensive and color-stealing gizmo which
replaces your X backdrop with a (gasp) image of the Earth. (Note:
You'll need to either run a 2-color or 256-color display to use
this...)
- The Persistence of Vision
raytracer (POVRay) home page.
- The XAnim home
page recently moved. XAnim is a multi-format animation viewer for
the X Window System.
- The GIMP is a GPL-ed image
manipulation program (kinda like Photoshop or ADPro) for X. It was
used to create the "official" Linux logo. It uses the Gtk toolkit.
- XV, a popular X-based
picture viewer (shareware; free for non-commercial use), now has a
page on the Web.
- No discussion would be complete without mentioning ppmtofb, my
favorite picture viewer ;-).
- Looking for fonts? Then look no further than the comp.fonts Home
Page.
Window Managers
- A home page now exists for the ubquitous FVWM X11 window manager.
- FVWM-95 is a modified version of FVWM2 that looks more like
Windows 95. This may or may not be a good thing. :-)
- Also check out AfterStep, a nice window manager based on FVWM that has a
NeXTStep look and feel.
- You might like amiwm, a
window manager with a AmigaOS look and feel. I've fooled around with
it a little, and it looks promising (and makes me homesick for AmigaOS
;). [Sweden]
- Other neat window managers include icewm, Enlightenment and WindowMaker.
- KDE is an effort to create a
CDE-like environment for Linux, based on Qt. So is GNOME, which uses Gtk.
- Some interesting configurations for various window managers can be
found at Themes for X.
- The definitive window manager page on the Internet is here. It has info on all of
the above window managers, plus many others (including IceWM, my
current WM of choice).
Games!
- LinCity is
a free X11 game similar to SimCity. [United Kingdom]
- Civilization clones (X-based):
- Freeciv is written in C and
IMHO looks better than the original did (at least on my Amiga).
[Denmark]
- OpenCiv uses
Python and Tkinter and the CLIPS expert system, so it is easy to
modify. [The Netherlands]
Miscellany
- Eric S. Raymond has a page about all his
freeware (fetchmail is boffo). Eric also has all sorts of other cool stuff
at his site.
- Mike Gleason has set up a NcFTP
Home Page, about his popular FTP client.
- Bob Willmot has created a page about using the Iomega Jaz
Drive under Linux.
- XForms has finally
been ported to Linux/m68k. This toolkit allows rapid GUI programming
under X, and doesn't require Motif.
- XEmacs -- A
version of Emacs for those of you who thought GNU Emacs was too small
;-). It has better X11 support and also includes a font-lock mode for
tty-based displays.
- Lesstif is the GPL-ed Motif
clone.
- Mutt is a new email program
with a clean, text-based user interface.
- rsync is the coolest
file distribution tool since FTP; I recommend it highly.
- AbiWord is a (somewhat
buggy) GPL'ed word processor.
Other Somewhat Useful Sites
- The Yahoo! Internet directory.
- Google!.
- The AltaVista web and
Usenet directory.
- The Go Network, with a web and
Usenet directory (powered by Python). [Also home of ESPN.com, reason enough to visit!]
- The DejaNews searchable
Usenet archive.
- Internet RFCs, the de facto standards used by the Internet.
Suggest a new link for this page.
Chris Lawrence
<webmaster@linux-m68k.org>
(16 Aug 1999 at 06:31 CDT)