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OpenWRT, Wireless Freedom

• Gadget Man: 10/09/09
  A special presentation and introduction to OpenWRT, including a slide show, some fun demonstrations, and plenty of commentary. The slides are available. View Presentation

WiFi Roomba : an unholy monstrosity!

• Gadget Man: 09/11/10
  PDF of Presentation
  Topics included:
• Roomba Dissection
• iRobot's Serial Command Interface
• Hardware mods on a Motorola WR850G
• Advanced software mods for OpenWrt
• Gadget Man's Roomba Control software Versions 1 & 2

General

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Free Software Resources

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• Sourceforge http://www.sf.net

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• LUG Directory http://www.linux.org/groups/

E-Mail Ettiqutte

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Linux Philosophical

• Cathedral and Bazaar http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
• What is Linux? http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question246.htm
• Most software used with Linux uses the GNU GPL: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Linux Articles

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• IBM Developerworks http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/linux/libraryview.jsp
• The Linux Documentation Project http://tldp.org/
• Learn BASH Scripting: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
• Open Source Web Conferencing Software DimDim DimDim.com (you can also download and install your own web conferencing software)

Help!

• Unoffical Ubuntu Guide http://ubuntuguide.org
• LinuxTroubleshooting.com http://www.linuxtroubleshooting.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
• Booting http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/grub/grub.htm

Utilities

• X server for Windows (for use with ssh -Y) http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming

Networking

• Basics

  • Linux Networking Howto http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO.html
  • IPV6 http://www.ipv6tf.org/index.php?page=using/connectivity/guides&id=2Self
  • Build IPv6 Router with Linux: http://tomicki.net/ipv6.router.php

• Security

  • Sectools.org http://sectools.org
  • Open Source Vulnerability Database http://osvdb.org
  • Insecure.org http://insecure.org
  • Counterpane (Bruce Schneir's Cryptogram) http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html
  • Iptables (Linux Software Firewall) http://www.netfilter.org/

News

• The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk
• Slashdot.org http://slashdot.org
• Digg http://digg.com
• Fark http://fark.com/geek

Media

• Video

  • MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu
  • Xine http://www.xinehq.de/

• Audio

  • Xmms http://www.xmms.org/
  • Ardour http://ardour.org/

Embedded Linux

• Soekeris http://www.soekris.com/index.htm
• DSL http://damnsmalllinux.org/
• OpenWRT http://openwrt.org/
• Linux Live Scripts http://www.linux-live.org/

Development

• Compilers and Languages

  • Gnu Compiler Collection http://gcc.gnu.org/
  • Python http://www.python.org

• IDEs

  • Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/
  • Anjuta http://www.anjuta.org/

Virtualization

• Parallels (Free for Linux?) http://www.parallels.com/en/download/workstation/
• CrossOver Office (Not Free, but very good at running Windows Apps natively on Linux) http://www.codeweavers.com
• VMware http://vmware.com
• Wine http://winehq.org

Information

• Recommended Books

  • Linux Administrators Handbook 2nd Edition (the softcoversion has a pink cover) Nemeth et al http://books.google.com/books?id=GB_O89fnz_sC
  • Linux Device Drivers Handbook Ed Groth

• Recommended Open Source Viewing

  • Pirates of Silicon Valley http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
  • Antitrust http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/

Self Contained Wikis

• TiddlyWiki http://www.tiddlywiki.com
• Will Wheaton's blog http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/