The following is a list of some of the major open source software
organizations that usually have software included with Linux:
Free Software Foundation (www.fsf.org)??”Supports the GNU project, which produces
much of the software outside the kernel that is associated with Linux. In particular,
open source versions of nearly every early UNIX command have been implemented by
the GNU project.
Apache Software Foundation (www.apache.org)??”Produces the Apache (HTTP) Web
server. It also manages related projects, such as SpamAssassin (spam filtering software)
and a variety of modules for serving special Web content (perl, SSL, PHP, and so on).
K Desktop Environment (www.kde.org)??”Develops KDE, one of the two leading
desktop environments used with Linux.
GNOME (www.gnome.org)??”Develops the other leading Linux desktop environment
(used as the default desktop for Red Hat Linux systems).
X.Org (www.x.org) and XFree86 (www.xfree86.org)??”These two organizations
provide different implementations of the X Window System graphical desktop framework
software.
Internet Systems Consortium (www.isc.org)??”Develops several major open source
software projects related to the Internet. These include Bind (domain name system
server), INN (InterNetNews news server), and DHCP (dynamic host configuration
protocol).
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