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Advocacy

GNU - Promotes the use of free software and the GPL (General Public License).
LinuxChix - A place where women can get together and talk Linux.
Linux International - Non-profit Linux advocacy group.
Open Source - Non-profit open source advocacy group.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar - The renowned open source advocacy paper, and its two follow-ups.

Applications

The GIMP - The powerful, free, image manipulation program.

Desktop environments and window managers

GNOME - Home of GNOME.
KDE - Home of KDE.
WindowMaker - Home of WindowMaker.
Window Managers for X - Complete guide to all window managers and desktop environments.

Desktop

Themes.org - Eye candy for your desktop.
XFree86 - Freely redistributable open source implementation of the X Window System.

Development

Programmer's Heaven - Fairly substantial programming links database.

Distributions

Linux From Scratch - Build your own distro from scratch with the excellent Linux From Scratch book.
The LWN.net Linux Distribution List - An exhaustive, well-organised list of all known Linux distributions.
Tom's Root Boot - When you can't boot your hard drive, Tomsrtbt, "The most GNU/Linux on one floppy disk", may be your last hope of recovery.

Documentation

LDP - The Linux Documentation Project.
LinuxPowered - Good Linux documentation site.

Games

Linux Games - Find out what Linux has to offer in the games department with this great looking site.
Linuxberg: Games - Tons of games to download.

General

Linux.com - A volunteer supported site created for and by the Linux and Open Source communities.
Linux Journal - Linux news, articles, help, and their popular Linux magazine.
Linux Magazine - Features some nice Linux articles, a Linux Who's Who, and of course their Linux magazine.
LinuxPlanet - Features some good Linux articles and tutorials.
LinuxWorld - Features some great Linux articles.

Hardware

Linux.com Hardware Database - Extensive user-supported list of hardware devices with information on Linux support.
LinuxDevices - Find out about Linux PDAs and embedded Linux.
LinuxHardware.org - Linux hardware news and reviews.
Linux Hardware Database - Extensive Linux hardware database.
Linux on Laptops - Massive directory of Linux laptop documentation.
Linux-USB device overview - Extensive USB device database.

Kernel

Alan's Diary - Alan Cox, kernel hacker extraordinaire's diary.
Kernel.org - The primary Linux kernel source.
Kernel Newsflash - Brief report on any problems the latest kernel has.
Kernel Traffic - Weekly summary of discussions that took place on kernel mailing list.
Linux Device Drivers - Read the O'Reilly book, Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition, online.

Merchandise

Linux Emporium - Great place to buy cheap Linux CDs by credit card, cheque, or postal order, if you live in Europe (and especially the UK).
LinuxMall - The largest online shopping center for Linux-related products.

News

Freshnews - Thirty news feeds on one page. Very nice.
Linux Today - One of the great Linux news sites.
LWN - Linux Weekly News, the authority on Linux.
LWN Daily - The daily news supplement to LWN.
NewsForge - Another nice Linux news site.
NewsGeek - Great looking, very nice news site.
Slashdot - News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
The Register - Biting the hand that feeds IT.

Publications

Linux Gazette - Popular, well-established, monthly Linux e-zine.

Software

Freshmeat - The Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software.
IceWalkers - Very nice Linux software site.
Linuxberg - Well organised Linux software site.
LinuxISO - Download the latest Linux ISOs.
RPM Find - Massive RPM database.
TuxFinder - Software search engine, great for finding RPMs.

Web-authoring

Apache - Home of Apache, the world's most popular web server.
MySQL - Home of MySQL, the world's most widely used open source database.
Perl - Home of Perl, the duct tape of the Internet.
PHP - Home of PHP, a server-side, HTML embedded scripting language.
The CGI Resource Index - The only CGI resource you'll likely ever need.
The Perl Journal Archives - The Perl Journal magazine's past issues, articles online.

Windows

Cygwin - A Unix environment for Windows.
VMware - Run Windows in a Linux window and vice-versa, although for a price.
Wine Development HQ - Run Windows applications from Linux, with varying success.

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