Important Articles and Information

Major Sources of Information

Cyber Laws:

  • +General Sites
  • +Cyber Law India
  • +Cyber laws in India at Naavi's portal
  • +Cyber law Library
  • +Contry Wise Laws
  • +India - The IT Act 2000 & Related Notifications
  • +Journals
  • +The Computer and Internet Lawyer
  • +Journal of Internet Law
  • +Enterprise Open Source Journal

  • Development Tools & Languages:

  • +Development Tools
  • +Bugzilla (Bug Tracking Tool)
  • +CVS (Software Version Management Tool)
  • +Emacs (Text Editor)
  • +GNU Compiler Collection (GCC, A Suite Of Compilation Tools For C, C++, And Several Other Languages)
  • +JBoss (j2EE-Compliant Web Application Server)
  • +TAO (The ACE ORB In Implementation Of A CORBAORB)
  • +PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor Used For Web Development)
  • +Vim (Test Editor)
  • +Web Application Development/Content Management Zope (Website Development Tool)
  • +Plone (Content Management System)
  • +Midgard (Content Management System)
  • +Open CMS (Content Management System)
  • +Typo3 (Content Management System)
  • +Graphical User Interface (GUI) Infrastructure GNOME (A Desktop Environment)
  • +KDE (A Desktop Environment)
  • +XFree86 (Graphics Infrastructure Which Implements The X Window System)
  • +Languages
  • +GNAT (Implementation Of Ada Programming Language)
  • +Perl (Programming/Scripting Language)
  • +Python (Programming/Scripting Language)

  • Free Books:

  • +Essential Skills for Agile Development
  • +Web Teaching
  • +Data Modeling Techniques for Data Warehousing
  • +Ajax in Action
  • +1000 Java Tips for Users/Developers with 2-6 Years of Experience.

  • General:

  • +Interesting Resources
  • +IT Cheat Sheets
  • +ICT Opportunities
  • +News, Facts & Figures regarding Opportunities in ICT Segment
  • +Center of Open Source and Government (eGovOS)
  • +The Promise of Software Libre (A webliography)
  • +GNU/Linux (an operating system based on the Linux Kernal)
  • +Linux Online (A central source of Linux information and as a voice for the promotion and advocacy of the Linux operating system)
  • +Linux Distributions
  • +Free BSD (General Purpose)
  • +Open BSD (Security Focused)
  • +NetBSD (Portability Focused)
  • +Desktop Applications Evolution (Email Client As Well As Calendar And Contact Manager)
  • +Samba (Supports Interoperability With Windows Clients by Acting as a Window File and Print Server)
  • +Postfix (Email Server)
  • +Mozilla(Web Browser and Email Client)
  • +The GIMP (Bitmapped Image Editor)
  • +Object Oriented Software Composition

  • Network Services:

  • +Apache (Web Server)
  • +BIND (Domain Naming Service, A Critical Internet Infrastructure Service)
  • +Mailman (Mailing List Manager)
  • +Samba (Supports Interoperability With Windows Clients by Acting as a Window File and Print Server)
  • +Postfix (Email Server)
  • +Sendmail (Email Server)

  • Open Source:

  • +The Open Source Definition
  • +The Open Source Directory
  • +Open Source Software Development Web Site
  • +Index of Applications Released Under Open Source Licence
  • +A Business Case Study of Open Source Software
  • +NSF Open Source Software Project Publications
  • +BerliOS Developer
  • +Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study
  • +How to Evalute Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) Programs
  • +Voices from the Open Source Revolution
  • +The Open Source Reader(An e-book)
  • +Open Office (Office Suite, Including Word Processor, Spreadsheet And Presentation Software)
  • +Wine (Wine Is An Open Source Implementation Tf The Windows API On Top Of X And Unix)
  • +GnuCash (Open Source Accounting Software)

  • Podcasts:

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  • +eWeek the IT Newsweekly's Weekly Podcast

  • Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs):

  • +MySQL (Database Emphasizing Speed)
  • +PostgreSQL (Database Emphasizing Functionality)

  • Research Tools:

  • +Octave (Numerical Computation Language)
  • +R (Language For Statistical Computing)

  • Security:

  • +Nessus (Network Security Scanner)
  • +Nmap (Network Configuration Scanner)
  • +OpenSSH (Secure Replacement For Telnet, rcp And ftp)
  • +Snort (Intrusion Detection)

  • Tutorials & Guides:

  • +Learning Guides & Tutorials
  • +Electronic Frontier Foundation's Legal Guides for Bloggers
  • +Guide for Podcasting