The FVWM window manager - a perennial Favorite Virtual Window Manager for the X Window system. One of the oldest, it's still one of the most powerful and flexible, thanks in part to the conception of its original author (the peripatetic Rob Nation), and thanks more recently to a very active and enthusiastic group of developers that I'm proud to be associated with.
The MINIX 3 Operating System
- Andy Tanenbaum's microkernel based operating system.
You'll find several packages we've ported to
MINIX 3 on our
MINIX Miscellany
page.
You'll also find some helpful tips and perhaps an occasional editorial rant as well.
Sylpheed - Hiroyuki Yamamoto's truly graceful and intelligent email client. It's fast, lightweight, and yet feature-rich. It's GTK-based, runs under both Unix and Windows, and it's a refreshing alternative to some of the more resource-intensive mail clients .
PostgreSQL database management system - I won't be drawn into religious arguments over PostgreSQL vs. MySQL. Both have their particular strengths. This is the one to which I've contributed modestly, and it's the one that runs the production databases in our offices.
Xfm and Moxfm Unix file managers - a couple of oldies, they still have a place on my workstations because they're lightweight and do the things I want a file manager to do without any fuss or bother. They're also much nicer to use and easier to configure than the file manager that comes with CDE. They are currently maintained by Albert Graef (who kindly helped me rescue Moxfm from oblivion a few years ago), along with his own Xplore , a Unix file manager with an Explorer-like interrface (which I also use).
NEdit programmer's text editor - the great editor that's not Emacs. The Tao is in it; no more need be said.
The Mozilla Project - The progenitor of Firefox.
AOLserver
- AOL's open source Web server. A highly scalable, robust, and efficient
server (hey, it serves some very large and busy sites, like AOL, Netscape,
and Digital City),
AOLserver implemented a threaded model long before Apache did (and no, I'm
not bashing Apache - I use it too!). Thanks to its tightly integrated Tcl interpreter,
it is not only easily extensible, but provides a very simple to use set of
Tcl API's for page scripting; this makes it an ideal framework for
building sophisticated, dynamic applications quickly.
20 May, 2004 - Update:
Dossy Shiobara, one of the long-time open source contributors, has joined AOL
as the Project Leader for AOLserver. From the early discussions I've been
following, I expect to see some impressive developments
in the next few months, as the activities of the internal developers and the
open source community at large become more closely coordinated.
Congratulations, Dossy!
X3270 3270 emulator for the X Window system - the premiere TN3270 client for Unix systems. Period.