Kris Kelley's Links

What better way to tell what a guy likes than a collection of his favorite web links? Some might say the best way is to simply walk up and ask him, but, whatever.

Friends' Home Pages

Incidentally, has anybody figured out whether "home page" is supposed to be one or two words?

Miles's Home Page    A generic web site for a generic fur.
The Mouse Haven The assorted ramblings of Mason deMouse.
Rita the Pixie Dear, sweet Rita, who also happens to run her own MUSH (multi-user shared hallucination; think MUD only without anyone keeping score).


WWW Essentials
No collection of bookmarks is complete without these.

Google The best way to search the web, even when the web isn't worth searching.
SlashDot "News for nerds, stuff that matters." Also unashamedly opinionated, but at least the editors make clear where they stand, unlike on some sites that promise you "more than just the facts." Plus, only the dreaded SlashDot Effect can strike more fear in the heart of a system administrator than any virus ever could.
EFF    The Electronic Frontier Foundation. Another site dedicated to news, and calls to action, concerning the Internet.
Merriam-Webster    A free dictionary. Now you have no excuse for bad spelling.
eBay The most popular auction site. You know the rest. Also see my "about me" eBay page.
IMDb The Internet Movie Database. The ultimate online reference for movie facts and trivia.
AMG The All Music Guide. The ultimate online reference for music facts and trivia.

Vive Linux!

Once upon a time I was a Macintosh zealot. I still am, mostly, but the fact is they don't make much stuff for old MacOS 9 any more, and my Macintosh computers are too old to run Mac OS X. I haven't yet found a compelling reason to go out and buy a new Mac, and instead Linux has become my operating system of choice. I even run Linux on one of my Macs.

Gentoo Linux A relatively new distribution of Linux, and also my favorite.
GNU GNU's Not Unix. It's not Linux either, but a lot of GNU's work has helped make Linux what it is today (just how much is open to debate). This is a good place to learn one (but by no means all) of the philosophies behind "free" software like Linux.
OSI The Open Source Initiative. Another philosophy of computer programming and code distribution, also popular with many Linux-philes.
TLDP The Linux Documentation Project. The place to go for documentation on a wide variety of Linux-related subjects.
SourceForge A repository for many open-source projects, the majority of which run on linux.
Kernel.org The Linux Kernel Archives, the place to get the latest and greatest, and also the first and worst.
Red Hat Linux    Worth mentioning as the most well-known distribution of Linux, and also arguably the easiest to learn. Red Hat isn't the favorite of most Linux-philes who pride themselves on customizing every last little detail of their machines, however, Red Hat must be cited by all Linux users for its help in getting Linux into the business world (not single-handedly, to be sure), and for its many contributions back to the Linux community.
SuSE Linux Another of the better-known Linux distributions. In fact, SuSE is now legendery for its acceptance by the city of Munich, Germany, beating Goliath-sized rival Microsoft in the process.


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