Resource List


Technische Universität Wien

Distributed Systems Group
Our department's homepage.

Search Engines

www.google.com
One of the big search engines.
www.infoseek.com
Another one of the big search engines.

Distributed Systems and Replication

CORBA
Simply stated, CORBA is a middleware layer that allows applications to communicate with one another no matter where they are located.
The free CORBA page
Describes commercial and non commercial CORBA implementations and provides pointers from where to get them.
Arjuna
Arjuna system is an object-oriented programming system that provides a set of tools for the construction of fault-tolerant distributed applications.
The Coda File System
Coda is an advanced networked filesystem.

Linux

The Linux Software Map (LSM)
The LSM is a database that indexes most of the software available for the Linux Operating System along with a description and some keywords.
ftp.univie.ac.at:/systems/linux
Austrian mirror auf sunsite and some other sites.
http://www.linux.org/
http://www.linuxhq.com/

Unix; Applications, Daemons, Tools, ...

BZIP2
bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques, whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.
egcs project
egcs is an experimental step in the development of GCC, the GNU C compiler. If you have problems with gcc 2.7.2, especially the g++ part, try egcs. It might solve some of your problems.
GIMP
The Gimp is an image manipulation program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
GNOME
GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. This project intends to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software.
NewsCache
A free cache server for USENET News. NewsCache reduces reduces the network bandwidth required for News and offers additional functionality like server multiplexing, offline news reading and others.

Thomas Gschwind