http://cairographics.org - "Very easy to use" graphics toolkit

http://www.freebsd.org - Best operating system on the planet (opinion)

http://www.debian.org - "Etch" version is author's favorite Linux variant

http://developer.mozilla.org - Info source for plugin/extension development

http://www.slackware.com - Different kind of Linux

http://www.wxwidgets.org - Easy C++ GUI dev kit

http://www.qtsoftware.com - Easier C++ GUI dev kit

http://dev.chromium.org - Google Chrome is derived from this project

http://www.python.org - Favorite (object oriented) scripting language

http://www.postgresql.org - Nice, free, database system (SQL DBMS)

http://www.djangoproject.com - Nice "html-template" type of Web framework

http://www.haiku-os.org - Developing independent operating system

http://newos.org - Original kernel from which Haiku OS kernel (above) is derived

http://llvm.org - New Compiler framework for C/C++ and others

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads - Interesting new Virtualization environments

http://code.google.com/android - Google's Android project

http://www.forum.nokia.com/Tools_Docs_and_Code/Tools/Platforms/ - Nokia S60 development apps

http://www.xiph.org/ - Informational site for Vorbis Ogg, Theora, and others ...

http://developers.sun.com - Source of development tools, Operating Systems

http://x.org - Foundation for maintenance of X Windows platform

http://www.netbsd.org/ - NetBSD Operating System

http://xen.org - Xen virtualization environment (hypervisor)

http://monodevelop.com/ - Development environment for Mono

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD - Sharp Develop environment for dot-net

http://www.embarcadero.com - Various Windows compilers (and a few others)

http://www.digitalmars.com/ - Development in the "D" language

http://projects.gnome.org/anjuta/index.shtml - Author's favorite *nix C++ IDE

www.pgadmin.org - Nice SQL database admin tool

http://subversion.tigris.org/ - Source code management

http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-compilers/ - More Windows and Linux C/C++ compilers

http://www.openldap.org/ - Open LDAP

http://www.openssl.org/ - Open SSL

http://www.lulu.com/ - For budding authors of prose (one-off JIT publishing)

http://www.openwatcom.org/ - The afterlife of the Watcom C++ compiler

http://www.droplinegnome.net/ - Interesting Gnome option for Slackware

http://www.profgrid.com/ - Nice data-grid library for C++ or Delphi on MS Windows

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