Free Software from Bruce Perens

• A complete street map of the United States in digital form, originally prepared by the U.S. Census. Note that this is 2.6 Gigabytes in size if you download all states! Please download the manual and read it first, so that you don't make frivilous use of my FTP site for something this big. This is now available from the Census' own site, as once I put my copy up for FTP, they had no more reason not to distribute it themselves. You can also get it from my site .
• Electric Fence , my malloc() debugger for Linux and Unix. This will stop your program on the exact instruction that overruns or under-runs a malloc() buffer.
• BusyBox, my set of tiny Unix utilities. This project has been taken over by Erik Andersen, and now is part of almost all commercial embedded Linux offerings. It's useful for making a rescue disk or any very small Linux or Unix system. Use Keith Almquist's ash for the shell (that's a very tiny Bourne shell). 
• I had a lot to do with the development of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Here's their web site and their main FTP site.
• Using the Gyration Media Center Remote on Linux

• Articles and Editorials by Bruce Perens.