Software Information

• Vendors
• Operating Systems
• PC Software
• Scripting Languages
• Windowing Systems
• Shareware/Freeware/Open Source
• Software by topic

Vendors

• Guide to Computer Vendors - Presented by SBA * Consulting
• Adobe Systems Inc.
• Apple Technical Support Web server
• Bolt, Beranek and Newman
• Borland Online
• Claris
• General Magic - The Magical Web
• Macromedia
• Metrowerks (CodeWarrior)
• Microsoft Corporation World-Wide-Web Server
• NeXT
• Novell Inc.
• Open Software Foundation (OSF)
• QUALCOMM Home Page
  • Eudora Email client
• Sunsoft
  • SunSoft (text only)
  • SunSoft (Graphic-heavy version)
  • SunSolve
  • SunScript
  • Wabi Library - unofficial WABI compatibility list
• Symantec Corporation Home Page
• White Pine Software
• Wolfram Research, Inc.
• Frame Technology Corporation
  • Frame Home Page
  • Framemaker FAQ
  • Framemaker FAQ
• Walnut Creek CDROMS

Operating Systems

• Linux
  • Linux Online
  • Linux.com - sponsored by VA Linux
  • Ports
    • Linux on PowerPC architecture
  • Java on Linux
    • Blackdown
    • IBM Alphaworks
• Unix
  • Unix FAQ (Ohio State Usenet FAQ archive)
  • Unix Guru Universe
  • Solaris
    • Solaris 2 FAQ
    • Solaris x86 FAQ
    • Solaris x86 Corner
    • Using imake with Solaris (Paul DuBois)
    • Solaris 2.5 Freeware(SMC)
    • EIS Computers, Inc. (Solaris PC VAR, they maintain a list of links to Solaris x86 resources)
    • Free or Public Domain Software & Solaris
    • Jumpstart guide (Mike Hollyman, UIUC)
    • CAP60 for Solaris (Andy Polyakov)
  • FreeBSD
  • GNU Hurd information
  • GNUStep
  • Tenon MacTen page
• Cygwin
  • Cygwin home
  • Cygwin User's Guide by Vinschen, Faylor, Delorie, Humblet, and Noer
  • XFree86 User's Guide by Harold L. Hunt II
• Inferno - Lucent Network OS (Byte, June '97 p. 53)
• Windows NT
• Windows 95
  • Robyn Mabry-Hubbard's Windows 95 FAQ

PC Software

• CatchUp - free software that checks for updates to your drivers and programs

Scripting Languages

• Perl
• Tcl/Tk
  • Tcl/Tk (Sun Labs page)
  • TCL Contributed Sources Archive (Neosoft)

Windowing Systems

• Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
  • SunSoft CDE page
• X Window System distribution information
• X-sites - maintained by Kenton Lee. Links to lots of X related sites.
• M/IX - free/cheap Mac/PC X server package
• Starnet.com - home of X-Win32, a PC X Windows server. There is a crippleware demo that isn't too crippled (sessions limited to 2 hours)

Shareware/Freeware/Open Source

• SourceForge - main support site for Open Source projects
• GNU software
• SunFreeware.com
• CodeCatalog - cross-referenced listing of source code for many open-source packages
• Download.com
• Tucows - Windows95/NT Software (Maryland affiliate)
• freedownloadscenter
• FreeCode - a free source code archive maintained by Andover Advanced Technologies
• Free Software Foundation's links to Free software
• Prime Time Freeware
• Archives
  • HPCC National Software Exchange
  • NCSA Software Distribution Group
  • Texas Office of Telecom Services Mac Archive
• FSF/GNU Software
  • The GNU Project web site
  • GNU's Not Unix!
  • GNU Hurd information
  • GNUStep
  • Emacs
• Packages
  • My packages
  • CAP Mac/Unix print package
  • CyberPhone Home Page
  • DDD - The Data Display Debugger (dbx/gdb front end)
  • Fetch (Mac FTP client)
  • gcc compiler
  • Gzip home page
  • PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Home Page
  • Random number generators: The pLab Project Home Page
  • TeX/LaTeX document formatting software
    • LaTeX Home page (CTAN, served from UK)
    • LaTeX FAQ
    • TeX - teTeX distribution docs
    • TeX User's Group (TUG)
    • Latex2html documentation
    • LyX home page - visual front end for LaTeX
  • Unrelated Inventions -home of AudioTools
  • Xmgr home page - 2D graphing utility
    • Local Copy of User Manual
    • FAQ

Software by topic

• Databases
• Editors
• Electronic mail packages
• Games
• Simulation Software
• Spreadsheets - Chris Browne, includes pointers to free Linux spreadsheets
• WWW software