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General

Linux Commercial HOW-TO marketing, ELF, Linux vs. the rest
Linux Commercial Software Products commercially available packages
Linux Manual Pages command references
The Linux Software Map (LSM) Home Page
Linux Software Map searchable database of available Linux packages
comp.os.linux.announce home page announcements of new programs
comp.windows.x.apps FAQ apps for the X Window System

System Administration Tools

ACUA Access Control and User Administration tool
apc_ups daemon that supports APC UPS's under Linux
Avatar job processing application suite, with a highly sophisticated built-in scheduler
cfengine very powerfull and easy-to-use network config and admin tool
Chklogs PERL script to help maintain system logs
Clustor a task crunching utility
ComBase Web-based SysAdmin Tools add/modify/delete user accounts
DevAlloc emulates device allocation mechanism Sun provides in Solaris 2.x
Evolution Scheduler scheduler based on genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming
FakeBO fakes BackOrifice server and logs every attempt to a log file or stdout
Figurine configuration system for UNIX
Generic NQS batch processing system
Gr_monitor draws 3D color bar graphs of all processes on a Linux system
grub Grand Unified Bootloader boots multiple OS's on PC's
IRQTUNE a Linux x86 IRQ priority optimizer
jaZip program for maintaining Zip and/or Jaz drive(s) and disks
LanSafe III UPS Power Management Software UPS app provides automatic shutdown
Linuxconf configuration tool and activator for system administration
Linux-PAM a flexible mechanism for authenticating users
Loadmeter an enhanced X11 system resource meter
lsof list open files for running Unix processes
Mfsm a Motif utility that monitors free space and user filesystem quotas
morepkgtools supplemental scripts for Slackware's package tools
Nessus a SATAN-like sysadmin tool for security auditing
NIST used to synchronize the system's time with a known timeserver
pam Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux
phalanx security daemon will only allow 'cleared' users from 'cleared' domains
ProcMeter simple X Windows based performance meter, reading the info from /proc
Qps visual process manager, an X11 version of "top" or "ps"
qtime time tracking software written in Tcl using Qddb and its Fx library
Queue load-balancing system that lets users control their remote jobs
radiusContext Remote Authentication Dial In User Services accounting log analysis package
Sawmill a powerful, hierarchical log analysis tool
SUDO superuser do utility to allow restricted root access
sysdaemon a system monitor written in generic perl5
System Commander manage multiple operating systems on one PC
WOTS log file monitoring program with extensible and configurable actions
XLoadTime /proc based load meter that also shows current time
XUser create, modify and delete user-info from an interactive X shell

Networking Tools

Angel Network Monitor tool to monitor the status of services on your network
Big Brother monitor multiple Unix systems, network connectivity, disk space, processes, etc
bootpc boot protocol client used to grab ip number and set up DNS nameservers
CFEngine script based system for managing a heterogeneous network of UNIX systems
Clobberd allows ISP's or Linux/Unix operator to regulate their users
CVS client/server configuration management system
Gxsnmp full featured snmp network management application for GNOME
Hifs handy information for sysadmins, a tool for system monitoring
IETF Mobile IPv4 a mobil IP implementation for Linux
IPAcct program/kernel extension to do per user ip accounting
IP NAT IP network address translation under Linux
ipsnat another Linux IP Network Address Translation implementation
ippfvs scalable and highly available virtual server built on cluster of real servers
Mon general-purpose network resource monitoring system
MPAS interface allows Win/DOS users access to files stored on network
MRTG multi-routing traffic grapher monitors network traffic load
MTR (Matt's Trace Route) combines the functionality of ping and traceroute into one app
Multi Router Traffic Grapher tool to monitor traffic load on network-links creates HTML pages
Netatalk for Linux let your Unix box look like an Appletalk server on a LAN
net-tools collections of programs to control Linux' networking.
Network Management Software a catalog of network management tools for Linux
ntop tool that shows network usage, similar to top
REGULUS management system for Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Remote Reboot use a network connection to reboot a machine remotely
Ruplist shows all sites on that LAN with their uptimes and their ranking
Samba a suite of programs to allow clients access to a server via the SMB
SATAN Security Administrator's Tool for Analyzing Networks
Scotty Tcl extensions for network management applications
SecureNet PRO a full featured network administration and diagnostic tool
snmpsniff a Linux SNMP sniffer (a tool for network management debugging)
Sniffit a Linux packet sniffer
serialmon serial line monitor program with statistics
SPONG a simple network/host system monitoring package
Tkined a network drawing editor running on top of the Tcl/Tk toolkit
traf a network traffic monitor program suitable for ethernets
TZO dynamic DNS solution for Linux users, creates domain names for PC's
ZanNet combo Win95 client/Unix server provides a Win95 network drive to access server files

File Systems and Tools

ARLA a fully functional client with all capabilities of normal AFS
Coda an advanced networked filesystem descended from AFS 2
E2fsprogs ext2 filesystem utilities
Fat32 mount the fat32 partitions available under Win95B
FSDEXT2 mount linux partitions under windows 95 (read only) on a dos drive letter
HFS for Linux Apple Macintosh Hierarchical File System
HFS Utilities for UNIX manipulate Mac HFS volumes from UNIX systems
mtools utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them
NTFS for Linux MS Windows-NT file system for Linux
Reiserfs a file system using a variant on classical balanced tree algorithms
smbfs mount drives exported by WforW, Lan Manager, NT running tcp/ip
TCFS Transparent Cryptographic File System that operates like NFS
VFAT for Linux a Linux filesystem compatible with Win 95 and NT long filenames

Daemons and System Servers

AgentD a modular scheduling daemon
am-utils the "next generation" of the popular BSD Automounter, Amd
CDFILE a commercial product to manage CD-ROM jukeboxes under LINUX
Chat Server continuous stream, real-time, mm-capable, comm server from Magma
DHCP Server Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Server from ISC
Diald daemon that does demand dialing for PPP and SLIP
dictd client/server software implementing the Dictionary Server Protocol
dlq simple queueing, anonymous download service that runs as modem lines are idle
FIDOGATE Fido-Internet Gateway, FTN-FTN Gateway, Mail Processor, File Processor
FTP Daemon from Troll Tech
InfoMagic Workgroup Server file and printing services to PC and Mac
Leafnode a USENET system for small sites
mgetty+sendfax highly optimized "getty" program for handling modem dial-in
NcFTPd File Transfer Protocol server designed for high-traffic sites.
portslave a getty replacement that acts as a portmaster and talks radius.
Real-Time Linux a Linux kernel with hard real-time tasks
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol for Linux from CMU
speak TCP based text to speech server designed for SPO256-AL2 text-to-speech board
Streamworks Server Xing's live and on-demand Audio/Video server
Sybernet cgi damon which holds a http connection to the Sybase SQL server
TEAMate Folders software to set up and run a complete on-line service
Time Server (xntp) NetworkTime Protocol and related clock synchronization products
ypserv an YP (NIS version 2) Server for Linux

Device Drivers

3Com 3c59* Vortex Ethercards drivers for various kernel revs
AdvanSys Linux Driver Linux driver for AdvanSys SCSI adapters
Advantech Card Driver driver for Advantech laboratory measurement card PCL-812PG.
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) modern and universal sound API
Bt848 frame grabber Hauppauge Win/TV, Miro PCTV, STB TV, Diamond DTV2000, etc.
BubbleTools Printer Drivers set of printer drivers which make graphic files printable
BusLogic adapter drivers drivers for Mylex SCSI adapters
Crystal LAN(tm) Ethernet Driver a CS8900/20 network interface driver for Linux
DIXI allows UNIX machines to communicate through remote (X25) networks
Dune drivers to interface applications to packet-switching networks via X25
Frame grabbers code for Matrox PIP-1024 and MuTech MV-200 frame grabber device drivers
GS4500 scanner driver driver (module) for Genius handheld scanners GS4500 and GS4500A
Hayes ESP enhanced mode drivers for the Hayes ESP card
Iomega Zip Driver Linux driver for parallel port Iomega Zip Drive
Iomega JazTool driver supports software ejection and hardware read/write protection
Joliet patch for MS spec to allow Unicode names to be written to a CD
K575 driver driver for the K575 data acquisition box from Keithley
Linux/AWE32! driver for Soundblaster AWE32
Linux Driver Development Kit (LDDK) write character device drivers with minimal fuss
Linux Ultra Sound Project low level drivers for the Gravis Ultrasound card
lm_sensors a linux driver for various sensors in computers
Matrox Meteor FrameGrabber Driver v1.4 driver the the Matrox Meteor PCI frame grabber
MuTech MV-1000 Linux Devicedriver for the MuTech MV1000 frame-grabber
NSM TrueSound Decoder card driver card is an mpeg1-audio layer 3 decoder card
Parallel Port Drivers drivers for various parallel port devices
pcd Panasonic/Creative/Matsushita CR-56x driver for Linux
PCMCIA Card Services integrated package with support for popular PCMCIA cards
pentium perf driver device driver (loadable module) to read pentium performace counters
Plextor MegaPleX 200 Disc CD-ROM changer driver from Digital Video Systems
QuickCam Drivers third-party Linux drivers for the Connectix QuickCam
OSS/Free free version of the universal audio and sound programming API
OSS/Linux a kernel module which plays MIDI using any inexpensive 16 bit soundcard
Symbios 53c416 driver driver for SCSI boards based on sym53c416 chip used in HP ScanJets
SyQuest EZ drives driver for the parallel SyQuest EZ135 and EZFlyer 230 drives
XidarML Xidar Technics' MicroLan Interface for Linux
xscan/pnmscan software for MUSTEK Paragon 600/1200 SCSI flatbed scanners

X Servers and Window Systems

Accelerated-X a commercial X server from Xi Graphics
Metro-X Metro Link's commercial X servers
MGR Window System Manager graphical window system, an X alternative
NeoMagic laptop X server
W96 a simple, socket based, two-color window system as opposed to X
XFree86 the freely available X Window server for PC based UNIX's