Bookmarks

Technology

Organizations/Campaigns

• http://www.fsf.org/

  • The Free Software Foundation

• http://www.defectivebydesign.org/

  • Anti-DRM campaign

News

• http://www.heise.de/

  • Best IT news site ever.

• http://www.h-online.com/

  • Heise in English.

• http://slashdot.org/

  • /. ... aggregating stories since before online story aggregating was invented.

Fun Stuff

• http://www.userfriendly.org/

  • The reference site to geek fun.

• http://thedailywtf.com/

  • Very very funny. I often can not hold back laughing while reading.

OS

• http://distrowatch.com/

  • Listing almost any Linux distribution around but BSDs and others are also contained.

Interesting Linux Distributions

• http://www.ubuntu.com/

  • Easy and popular distribution, if you have no clue use this. Live CDs are also available.

• http://www.debian.org/

  • Most popular fully community-based distribution, includes a very large software repository.

• http://fedoraproject.org/

  • Community project started by Red Hat. Many innovations from Red Hat are implemented and tested in Fedora first. Live CDs are also available.

• http://www.puppylinux.org/

  • Small full-featured distribution.

• http://grml.org/

  • Live CD aiming at experienced users/system administrators.

• http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

  • Live CD meant as rescue CD.

Software

Multimedia

• http://www.videolan.org/

  • The BEST media player out there.

Emulation/Virtualization

• http://www.zsnes.com/

  • My favorite SNES emulator.

• http://www.winehq.org/

  • Wine is not an emulator... yet you can run Windows applications on non-windows systems.

• http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/

  • A x86 emulator with some acceleration abilities.

• http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

  • A x86 emulator

• http://www.scummvm.org/

  • Open Source implementation of Lucas Art's SCUMM engine. For playing a lot of old Lucas Art games.

Web

Software

• http://www.amplesdk.com/

  • Java-Script SDK for interactive web applications.

• https://bespin.mozilla.com/

  • Mozilla's web based IDE.

• http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/Home.html

  • Pencil, an open source sketching and prototyping tool.

Life

Media

• http://dwitter.com/

  • Overview of hot topics on Twitter in German language.

Books

• http://andreaseschbach.de/

  • The best book author in the known universe. (personal opinion)

Anime/Manga

• http://megatokyo.com/

  • As far as I know the longest running online manga. And a very good one yet geeky.

• http://anidb.net/

  • Large database of Anime series. Here you definitely find the series you watched back when you were a child, or 20 minutes ago.

Movie

• http://www.boxofficemojo.com/

  • Box Office statistics, mainly from the U.S.

Japan

• http://whatjapanthinks.com/ (English)

  • Heavy amount of statictics ... from Japan