repositories

Free Your Media: "Open source office suite needs some decent open and royalty-free cliparts. This tutorial presents valuable clipart repositories and an extension which enables direct downloading of graphics into the OpenOffice.org documents."

HowtoForge: "Appnr is a web-based directory for Ubuntu packages (including the official repositories and third-party packages from Medibuntu, Google, and the Canonical Partner repository).

You can use it to browse and install packages directly from your browser. It's like Synaptic for your browser."

TuxArena: "AcetoneISO is a graphical application written in Qt4 which lets you mount CD/DVD images easily. The formats supported are ISO, NRG, MDF, BIN and IMG.

It does not come in Debian's repositories, but I will show you how to easily install, run and start to use it."

Datamation: "Most GNU/Linux users get the bulk of their applications from their distribution's repositories. However, those who want the cutting edge take to the Web to find it, often to GNOMEfiles if they use the GNOME desktop, or to KDE.apps.org if they use KDE."

OStatic: "Just as open source software is often shared in online repositories, the BioBricks Foundation has a registry online for open source biological parts.

Here's more on how these efforts may change the world, following open source principles."

Click: "...the two "big" Slackware-derived distros, Zenwalk and Vector, use their own repositories, and they don't support a given release for very long before moving on to the next one.

This burned me pretty good one time..."

All about Linux: "Or perhaps you are interested in learning tips and tricks on writing versatile dotfiles.

Well, here are two sites which are dedicated to collecting useful tips so as to help Linux users better."

Fedora-Announce-List: "While there is no definitive evidence that the Fedora key has been compromised, because Fedora packages are distributed via multiple third-party mirrors and repositories, we have decided to convert to new Fedora signing keys."

One of the great things about Debian and Ubuntu is that you have a ton of great open source software at your fingertips via the package repositories for those distros.

However, if you want to run popular packages like VMware Server or Opera, it gets a little tricker.

Scott Granneman explains the ins and outs of extra repositories.