md5

Version history
- 1.0: first version (md5)
- 1.1: added MPlayer (Kombatant)
- 1.5: new links and categories (md5)
- 1.55: new links for getting help (md5)

New to Linux? Need to find appropriate drivers or programs to do everyday tasks? Read on...

Note that this list is by no means complete. Additions and suggestions are welcome

Special thanks to RedSolar for the help he provided

Introductory information
- Linux general info

Picking the distribution that suits your needs
- Linux.org
- DistroWatch

Drivers you may need:

Graphics cards
- ATI Linux Drivers: 32bit - 64bit
- NVIDIA Linux Drivers: 32bit - 64bit
Sound
- The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) project
Modem drivers
- Linux Winmodem Support
USB devices (including ADSL modems, scanners, printers, keyboards etc etc)
- The Linux-USB project
- Linux-USB device overview
Network drivers
- Linux network drivers
Printer drivers
- Linux printing
Hardware monitoring
- lm_sensors
Wireless networking
- NdisWrapper
- linux-wlan

Plus, you can find many, many more driver resources here:
http://www.linux-drivers.org/


Programs you may need:

Instant messaging
- Gaim

Internet browsers
- Firefox
- Opera

E-mail readers
- Thunderbird

Office applications (equivalent to Word, Excel etc)
- OpenOffice

Image editing
- The GIMP

3D Graphics creation
- Blender

Image viewers (like ACDSee)
- XnView

Music and Video playback
- X Multimedia System (XMMS)
- Beep Media Player (BMP)
- MPlayer (all around media player which supports many formats)
- VideoLAN (one of the most well-known cross-platform video players)

Sound software
- Audacity
- Sound and midi software for Linux

Video Editing
- Cinerella

Flash and Shockwave players
- Macromedia Web Players

Games under Linux
- Cedega (play Windows games under Linux - formerly known as winex)
- The Linux Game Tome
- LinuxGames

Misc
- The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux
- Find RPMs in rpmfind and rpmseek

Documentation and help
- Read the man pages first! Type "man command"
- Ubuntu wiki
- Ubuntu forums
- The Fedora FAQ
- The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP)

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Scar_T

You should add MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/index.html) a really good video player for almost every video format

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Kombatant

Done Any more suggestions, just post in this thread

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md5

Added more categories and links, enjoy

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RIV@NVX

I suggest adding wine under "Games" and xine under "Audio/Video".

P.S.
I can't thing of any other <something>ine you might add here

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