Technical Links

Unix

Solaris Freeware: Compiled, ready-to-install Open Source software for Solaris 10 (and older versions back to 2.5)
Free Solaris[sm] Binary License Program: Get a Solaris 10 binary license for free
HP-UX Porting and Archive Center: HP-UX freeware
Bull's Large Freeware and Shareware Archive for AIX: AIX freeware
Tru64 Unix Demos, Shareware, and Freeware: Tru64 (formerly Digital Unix) freeware
Unix Guru Universe: Resources for every flavor of Unix
MI/X (Microimages X Server): Inexpensive ($25) X Window server for Windows and Macintosh (good substitute for Xceed or Hummingbird)
Linux Notebook HQ: Help getting Linux running on all brands of laptops

The Perl Home Page: Main web site for all things Perl
The Latest Perl source: Compiles on any Unix platform!
ActivePerl: Perl for Win95/98/NT/2000/XP
nsPerl: A resource for Unix-based Perl binaries (Solaris,AIX,HP-UX and others)
Web Review: The Virtues of Perl: As the title implies, a story touting the virtues of Perl
Perl Monks: Lots of interesting scripts -- many creatively obfuscated
Perl Advisor: Randal Schwartz's Perl Columns from UNIX Review
Perl Mongers: Formerly the Perl Institute
Perl Code Editor: Free Perl-aware editor for Windows
EnginSite Perl Editor: Freeware (lite version) and payware (full version) Perl-aware editors for Windows

Project Gutenberg: Thousands of plain-text eBooks -- from the Bible to Shakespeare, and many more modern classics
Moby Words: Grady Ward's lexical lists, including 610,000 words and phrases, the largest word list in the world. These are great for word games or test data. Also, hyphenated entries, parts of speech, thesaurus, and

Putty: A Free Telnet/SSH Client. They have many other tools -- and they're FREE
JSI Tip 0403: How do I open a command prompt with my favorite DOSKEY macros defined?
VNC: A remote access client & server -- you can work with a remote Windows or Unix desktop from any Windows host on your LAN (Provides an X server on your local desktop for Unix).

Excellent multiplatform vi clone

Open source successor to Netscape -- the best alternative to Internet Exploder

A port of standard Unix tools to Windows. You need this! (Includes GCC and an X server)

Protocol Analyzer for Windows and Unix/Linux

User-friendly Unix text editor (freeware)