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CONNECTIVITY INFORMATION
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Student Information for Remote Classes (STS Document)
This page contains a link to download VNC software.
Attendees to a remote STS class will find this most helpful.
Also provided are links to OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and PuTTY
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OPEN SOURCE / FREE SOFTWARE
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Advantages and options with Open Source / Free Software (STS Document)
This document covers the typical needs of companies and how these can be met using Open Source / Free software. It has some examples of commonly used Open Source Software, and how it can meet the needs of Businesses.
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8 quick reasons to use open source software / Linux
CIO Magazine's comments on using open source software.
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Reasons for using Open Source Software
A detailed quantitative analysis of reasons to use Open Source / Free software. Article has information on Market Share, Reliability, Performance, Scalablity, Security, Total Cost of Ownership, and other topics. After you read this, you will be very informed.
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GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Open Source and Free Software are slightly different in there licensing models. Free software is as in "Free Speach, not in Free Beer".
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Microsoft's take on open source
Information on Open source software from a company developing historically proprietary software.
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Other advantages of open source software
Article with concise points.
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Open Source Licensing
This is a comprehensive index of the Licenses approved by the OSI, Open Source Initiative.
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Open Source developers network
'Nuff Said.
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SOFTWARE RESOURCES
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Sun Freeware
This site has many popular open source software utilities for most versions of Solaris in the Sun Package format. It also has installation documentation and source code.
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Source Forge
The "Worlds largest Open Source software development website."
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Fresh Meat
This is a excellent portal site for many opensource projects.
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tucows.com
This download site allows you to search over 30,000 software utilities.
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SUPPORT / INFORMATION / TROUBLESHOOTING
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Sunsolve
Excellent Sun specific information and troubleshooting site.
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Stokely Consulting
This is an excellent documentation portal site for several versions of UNIX.
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Mailing List Archives
A must have links for any system administrator. This is a searchable archive of most popular technical discussion mailing lists.
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Network-Tools.com
This site supplies ping, trace route, DNS Lookup, E-mail validation utilities and more.
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