free & open source software
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An introduction to the Open Source philosophy of Computer Software.TRANSCRIPT
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Introduction to free & open source
software
JMILUG
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How many of you have used ..
Mozilla Firefox
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VLC media player
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OpenOffice
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And furthermore:
Android
Notepad++
7-Zip
Wordpress
Pidgin
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What is common in all of them?
All the above are Free and Open Source Software.
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Confused?
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Lets go back ...
History
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In 1985
Richard Stallman formed FSF
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● He along with a group of like minded programmers
started work in developing the tools needed to make a complete OS - like an editor (Emacs), a C compiler (GCC), libraries and all associated generic Unix tools like cat,ls, chmod etc
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In year 1990
A finnish student by name Linus Torvalds
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Wrote kernel
And released it under GPL.
This kernel is now popularly known as Linux.
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So
Gnu toolchains + kernel == Gnu/Linux
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What are various distros ?
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Also
After 1997, a programming model other than the GPLed model emerged which is now popularly known as the Open Source Initiative.
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The Pyramid
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So the question is ..
Why should i learn free & opensource software, Gnu/Linux?
How and where to look for help?
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Why should i learn free &
opensource software?
For your good.
Better knowledge about how things/technology works.
Better paid job?
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How and where to look for help?
The Linux Documentation Project (tldp.org)
Distribution/software specific websites
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But am not a coder …..
You can still help and be part of the community
Localization
Documentation
Artwork
Bug Reporting
Mentoring
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Questions?
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Thanks
Akif Khan
Linux Missionary