Linux & Unix
192 sites
https://dynazenta.neocities.org/
Asteroid B-612 is the personal homepage of Zen, a nineteen-year-old who blogs about Linux adventures including Arch and Hyprland, creative projects, music, and life reflections. The site features a gallery, multiple sub-pages, webrings, and a changelog documenting its ongoing evolution as a handcrafted HTML/CSS project.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Starlink
A community-maintained Ubuntu wiki page providing step-by-step installation instructions for Starlink, a suite of astronomical research and analysis tools. It covers downloading, unpacking, and configuring the software on Linux, making it a useful reference for astronomers and scientists running Ubuntu.
https://mail.jjakke.com/
Jake runs his own personal email server on a budget VPS and uses this page to explain why he won't be offering accounts to anyone else, with candid commentary on privacy, law enforcement subpoenas, and the limitations of cloud hosting. The page is a refreshingly honest and humorous look at self-hosted email infrastructure, touching on rDNS, VPS trade-offs, and the surveillance risks of third-party hosting.
https://lartc.org/howto/lartc.cookbook.ultimate-tc.html
A detailed technical guide from the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO covering the 'Ultimate Traffic Conditioner' script for managing network latency, upload/download balance, and QoS on Linux systems. It walks through the theory behind packet queuing on cable and DSL modems and provides ready-to-use tc (traffic control) scripts for achieving low-latency interactive traffic alongside bulk transfers.
https://tilde.town/
Tilde.town is a shared Linux server community of around 3000 users who collaborate to make art, socialize, and learn together, founded in 2014 by ~vilmibm. Visitors can explore user-made projects like interactive blackout art, mosaic tetris, and HTML graffiti, or apply to join this quirky digital neighborhood.
http://9front.org/
9front is the official home of 9front, a fork of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, offering downloads, documentation, bug tracking, and community resources for this experimental operating system. The site features an FQA (Frequently Questioned Answers), manual pages, a wiki, and release announcements for a niche but dedicated OS community.
https://tilde.town/~extratone/tildeverse
A curated link directory of tildeverse communities, tools, and projects, collected from tildeverse.org by the user extratone on tilde.town. It spans member servers, IRC networks, git repositories, mailing lists, a radio station, and even a Minecraft server, offering a thorough map of the shared Unix-based public-access tilde community.
https://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/postfix_tutorial.html
Mike Chirico's detailed step-by-step tutorial walks home Linux users through configuring Postfix and Fetchmail to send and receive Gmail with SASL authentication and TLS encryption. The guide covers mail server setup, fetchmail with STARTTLS, inter-home-network mail forwarding, and automated email backups, making it a thorough reference for self-hosted Linux mail on a home network.
http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/
Command Line Kung Fu is a long-running blog by contributors Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, and Tim Medin, delivering tips, tricks, and practical techniques for working with the command line across Linux, OS X, and Windows. With over 180 episodes covering everything from shell scripting to security tools, it is a rich reference for anyone who spends time at a terminal.
https://pogmom.me/
Penelope Gwen (pogmommy) is a queer technologist and sociologist who documents her self-hosted federated services, Linux software projects in Rust and Bash, and adventures running modern Linux on vintage hardware. The site showcases her 'Pogmom Suite' of open-source federated tools, links to her Forgejo and Codeberg repositories, and a project blog covering niche hardware tinkering.