Miscelleanous links

A few people...

• Alex: Look how much he loves those flashy things
• Élisabeth: Some documents about the Ambition-Réussite network
• Nadine: An alien in Japan
• Roland: Arts and science (in French)
• Thomas: Sober, but efficient

Miscelleanous

Free Software

• The GNU project: How to build a complete free system
• Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!
• SlashDot: The Free Software community news (mostly Linux in fact)
• Daemon News: The BSD community news
• FreshMeat: The latest free softwares
• LinkLint: The WWW verifier I use on this site

Free operating systems

• Debian GNU/Linux: In my opinion the better Linux distribution so far (but I have to admit that I am a former Debian developper)
• Gentoo: The most developper friendly GNU/Linux distribution
• FreeBSD: I haven't seen so far any OS which is so complete and so fast for PC machines
• NetBSD: An OS which is even more portable than Linux
• OpenBSD: At the end, the most secure OS in this list

Learning

• The École ouverte de l'Internet: free classes for people looking for a job
• The École Ouverte Francophone: remote teaching about and using free software

Living in a society

• Collectif « Les mots sont importants »: shows the importance of the choice of words when talking or writing (in French)
• Africains sans papier «de Saint Ambroise»: coordination of people fighting to get legal papers to stay in France (in French)

Technics

• the first implementation of RFC1149: IP on avian carriers
• the banking card security: Have they been lying to us? (in French)
• memtest86: The ultimate PC memory tester

Free time

• Confessions d'un voleur(in French): A book by Laurent Chemla
• CyberKata: Paris' underground
• Pari Roller: Roller skating in Paris

Programming languages

Ada

• Ada Core Technologies: The company of GNAT authors, the Ada 95 compiler part of the GNU project
• Ada France: The Ada-France association aims at presenting the Ada programming language in French-speaking countries
• Ada Europe: The mother of all European national Ada association
• GNU Ada: Crazy mens wanting to maintain the GNAT compiler for free
• GNAT packages for Debian GNU/Linux: A ready-to-use compiler for Debian GNU/Linux
• The Ada reference manual for your Palm handheld

Erlang

• Erlang: The Erlang programming language
• Eddie: Fault-tolerant WWW servers and DNS
• IdealX : IdealX, a french company using Erlang a lot
• erlang-fr.org: Erlang resources in French

Forth

• What's Forth?: A short description of Forth
• The Forth's Dilemma: When Great Firms Cause New Technologies to Fail
• Pourquoi Forth? An explanation of the Forth amplifier effect
• Top 10 List Ways to Simplify Programming Yet more reasons why you should use Forth
• GNU Forth: A Free Software Forth
• Quartus Forth: A Forth for Palm Pilot that allows on-board development
• DSForth: Another Forth for Palm Pilot
• The ANS Forth reference manual for your Palm handheld

Python

• Python: The main Python page
• Zope: A new way of seeing WWW sites

Ruby

• Ruby: The main Ruby page

Smalltalk

• Squeak: Squeak, an excellent free software Smalltalk implementation
• SeaSide: Dynamic, powerful and consistant WWW sites
• GNU smalltalk: Smalltalk as a scripting language

Resources for cooperative development

• SourceForge: Free hosting site for OpenSource projects
• Savannah: Free hosting site for Free Software and Documentation
• AdaPower: Free hosting site for Ada projects
• The CoopX project: Cooperative work on the WWW
• Creative Commons: Licenses choice for free documents
• Common Content: Directory of documents distributed under a Creative Commons license