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The following links point to Linux-related development projects. This does not include commercial software development, which is listed under Commercial Products.

• Hardware Ports
  • ARM Linux
  • Be, Inc. and Craftwork Solutions, Inc. are bringing Be_Linux to the BeBox.
  • Linux/MIPS
  • DEC Alpha (AXP)
  • Linux/m68k (Atari and Amiga), and Linux/m68k for Macintosh
  • Linux/VME (m68k based MVME162/166/167 boards) and a MVME147 version
  • ELKS Project (i8086)
  • LinuxPPC (PowerPC) or LinuxPPC/Europa, and Linux/PowerMac (Monolithic Linux for Apple PowerMacs) as well as LinuxPPC for Motorola PowerStack and IBM PPC
  • Linux/AP+ (Fujitsu AP1000+)
  • MkLinux for PowerMac (Micro Kernel Linux)
  • Linux MCA Homepage (Micro Channel bus)
  • SPARC/Linux
  • Linux/sun3
  • VAXlinux
  • HP PA-RISC

• Kernel, Device Drivers, Filesystems
  • The latest production (stable) and development kernel source code. Also read Changes for important information about upgrading from 1.x.x to 2.x kernels.
  • Linux kernel patch change summaries up to 1.3.79 and after 1.3.79, including 2.x. port UNIX programs to Linux at the system-call level.
  • Linux PCMCIA Support page.
  • Advanced Power Management support for laptops and "Green" machines.
  • The Linux Log-structured Filesystem.
  • Information about the Linux PAM Project (Pluggable Authentication Modules).
  • The Linux Virtual Partition System Project.
  • Patches and utilities for Plug-and-Play hardware (PnP).
  • The Enhanced File System Project, a project to create a new file system.
  • Linux-Privs, a project to implement kernel components to a secure system.
  • RT-Linux, a real-time extension to Linux.
  • TCFS, the Transparent Cryptographic File System for Linux.
  • The Universal Serial Bus (USB) for Linux project.

• Papers
  • Michael K. Johnson's paper for DECUS/Spring '95, Writing Linux Device Drivers.
  • Matt Welsh's Porting Applications to Linux paper describes how to
  • Linux system call specifications from Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
  • An analysis of the ext2 filesystem from Louis-Dominique Dubeau.

• Networking
  • Don Becker's Linux Homepage with information on TCP/IP and Ethernet drivers for Linux.
  • The Linux Networking News, which gives the current status of the networking development project.
  • ATM on Linux.
  • Mobile IP projects at SUNY Binghamton, the University of Singapore, and at Stanford University.

• Organizations and Groups
  • Linux International, a non-profit organization supporting Linux development.
  • linux.org.
  • Information about XFree86, and the XFree86 FAQ. The XFree86 Project is a non-profit organization maintaining a free port of the X Window System to Linux and other UNIX platforms. Some benchmarks for XFree86 can be found here.
  • Linux Publicity Project.
  • Debian GNU/Linux is a development effort to create a completely free Linux distribution. You can also read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ.
  • The Linux CD and Support Giveaway List.
  • The Linux Directory Service for Linux Users and Developers.
  • The Linux Advocacy Project, dedicated to promoting Linux.
  • The Linux User Group List Project.

• Software
  • The Linux Software Review, a forum to discuss software programs and packages written for Linux.
  • Information about WINE, an MS-Windows emulator for x86-UNIX systems, including Linux.
  • The Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set is available for Linux.
  • Linux Software Map, a database of software developed and ported to Linux, with search engines at New Generation Software and Boutell.Com.
  • The FREE Visual Tcl/Tk Project, designed and developed using Linux.
  • Objex (ox), a full object model for Linux. The system will allow the user (and the programmer) to do anything in an object-oriented paradigm.
  • The Linux Interface Project, whose goal is to provide the next generation of GUIs for Linux and more!
  • Linux Phone Project.
  • Mnemonic, a WWW browser project.
  • The Linux Game SDK Project, is creating a full development environment under Linux for professional video games developers.
  • The Linux OPaC Project, a C++ GUI library is being ported to Linux.
  • Project Wurd, an object-oriented, SGML-based word processor. Text-only and GUI versions are being developed.
  • The MIT Wearable Computing Project runs Linux on their wearable computers.
  • Berlin, a new POSIX-compliant windowing system and application environment based on Linux-GGI.
  • The Linux-GGI Project, a device driver hat gives the standard Linux Virtual Consoles (VCs) pixel-graphics drawing and display capabilities.

• Research and Scientific Groups
  • AI/ALife.
  • Biocomputing.
  • Physics
    • High Energy Physics.
    • The Hermes Linux Production Cluster, a high performance Linux cluster for physics experiments.
  • High Performance and Parallel Computing
    • The Linux-SMP page.
    • Purdue's Adapter for Parallel Execution and Rapid Synchronization.
    • Cornell University's U-Net Project.
    • Linux in High Performance Computing.
    • Parallel Cluster.
    • Beowulf, a project to develop a clustered workstation from Linux machines.
    • The Linux Parallel Processing Page at Purdue.
    • Parallel Computing Using Linux.
  • Machine Vision mailing list archives.
  • Manufacture and Crafting.
  • Software for Scientists.
  • Scientific Applications on Linux.

• Distributions
  • LINNET, a Linux distribution idea to make it easy to build routers, terminal servers and Internet servers,
  • Project Andromeda, a MkLinux distibution project.

• Benchmarks & Standards
  • BYTE UNIX Benchmarks for a number of Linux machines, and BYTEmark v2 benchmarks.
  • Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), (formerly the Linux Filesystem Standard, FSSTND).

• Miscellany
  • The Linux Counter allows you to register yourself as a Linux user. You can also get statistics on Linux usage.

Please email gregh@sunsite.unc.edu if you have a Linux development project that should be added to this list.

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Last Modified: 14 July, 1997 by Greg Hankins