Core Technology
Congressional Hearing on the "Digital Future of the United States: Part I -- The Future of the World Wide Web"
http://energycommerce.house.gov/cmte_mtgs/110-ti_hrg030107.Sir-Tim-Testimony.pdf
Of particular relevance to those interested in Open Technologies, take a look at the section on Data Integration that starts on page five
Clonezilla- Disk drive imaging utility
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net
Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, and udpcast, allows you can massively clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously.
Apache- Web server
http://httpd.apache.org
The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server.
Coverity Open Source Error Database
http://scan.coverity.com
In collaboration with Stanford University, Coverity is establishing a new baseline for software quality and security in open source based on the analysis of over 30 of the most critical and widely used open source projects in the world.
Crossover from Codeweavers- Windows compatibility
http://www.codeweavers.com
The is a proprietary software addon to Linux which allows Linux to run any windows application
DRBL- Diskless Remote Boot in Linux
http://drbl.sourceforge.net
Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) provides a diskless or systemless environment for client machines. It works on Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS and SuSE
Edubuntu
http://www.edubuntu.org
"Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". The Edubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to schools, through its customised school environment.
Freespire - Free version of Linspire
http://wiki.freespire.org
Freespire is a community-driven, Linux-based operating system but also provides users the choice of including proprietary codecs, drivers and applications as they see fit
Distowatch
http://www.distowatch.com
Distowatch offers reviews and comparisons of various Linux and open source distributions.
FreeBSD
http://www.freebsd.org
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon 64, and EM64T), UltraSPARC, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures. It is derived from BSD, a version of UNIX.
Ghost for Linux
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l
Ghost for Linux is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost(c). The created images are optionally compressed and transferred to an FTP server instead of cloning locally.
Gnome GUI desktop
http://www.gnome.org
GNOME 2.16 is the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment.GNOME runs on a variety of platforms, including GNU/Linux (commonly called Linux), Solaris, HP-UX, BSD and Apple's Darwin.
HORDE
http://www.horde.org
The Horde Framework is a set of coding standards, common code, and inter-application communication methods. The shared code provides common ways of handling things like preferences, permissions, browser detection, and user help.
K-12 Linux
http://k12linux.org
K-12 Linux provides support for educational users of the linux operating system. The site includes news, links, resources, and discussion to help promote the use of open source software in schools.
The Linux Terminal Server Project
http://www.ltsp.org
The Linux Terminal Server simplifies the administering of multiple networked desktop computers by storing the system configuration and desktop applications on a central server.
IBM Open Source Resources
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource
Resources for open source development and implementation.
Open Source Initiative
http://opensource.org
Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the non-profit corporation that administers the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program.
Open BSD
http://www.openbsd.org
The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Their efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography.
MySQL
http://www.mysql.com
The MySQL database is an open source database intended for new applications built on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python). MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms, including Linux, Windows, OS/X, HP-UX, AIX, and Netware.
PostgreSQL
http://www.postgresql.org
PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows.