introduction to foss world

An Introduction to Free and Open Source World

By Narendra Sisodiyahttp://narendra.techfandu.org

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Who I am

I am a independent FOSS activist, supporter, contributor, a jQuery lover who is working on Project Eduvid.

Contact : [email protected] : http://twitter.com/eduvidWebSite: http://narendra.techfandu.org

why FOSS, why Linux (1)

Freedom matters

Free of Cost (Not always)

No Vendor Lock in

Open Standard (odt, png ..)

No Virus at all

Compatibility with other OS

Fast Boot 1 minute to Boot

Automate Jobs using Command Line.

Schedule jobs using crond

Most companies use FOSS tool even they produce non-foss product (Ex java tools)

XFS on Linux can scale upto a million TB (NTFS is just 16 TB)

Linux can scale to 1024 processors on a single computer

Fastest Super Computer to Server of google to mobile and your Airtel Beetal router use Linux

Support 100+ file system

http://cityblogger.com/archives/2007/01/24/101-reasons-why-linux-is-better-than-windows


Speed everyday = installday

Community Support

Excellent for programming

Plug-n-boottestdrive w/o install

Linux can run on old hardware with 32 MB ram

Support Dual boot

Install from network, usb, cd/dvd

Everyday updates

Now Google and most MNC support FOSS

Growth rate of 25% per year.

Lost of choice for software

No piracy

True 64 bit distro available

Easy test drive (Ex Mysql is free of cost)



3D Desktop - Compiz Fusion

No need for extra device drivers

Multiple Workspace

Purpose based Distro

Most documented OS

No Defragmentation needed

No more BSOD

No Reboot I did not turnoff my lab PC for 8 month after install

Built in virtualization ( XEN / KVM / VirtualBox / etc )

Linux is used in embedded device as well

Now Mobile comes with Linux Openmoko, Android

BUG tracking system


Behind Software

Source CodeSoftware Binary

Compilation

Close Source

Free Softwarefreedom to run,

copy, distribute,

Study,

change and

improve

you

RMS

One of the greatest person cum ideal in digital industry.

1983, launched the GNU Project

GNU is a Operating System. Full project was never completed.

1985, set up the Free Software Foundation

Wrote GNU GPL license

GNU development tools, ex gcc compiler

Stallman popularized the concept of copyleft

Richard Matthew Stallman aka rmshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

Free Software Definition

Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).

The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).

The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Linus Torvalds

1991, a Finnish student, used the GNU development tools to produce Linux, an operating system kernel

Kernel was the missing component of GNU Operating System

MCC Interim Linux, (1992) was first Linux Distro

GNU/Linux is appropriate term.

Soon many community Distro developedDebian , FreeBSD, OpenBSD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

Free vs Open Source

Free software is software that gives you the user the freedom to share, study and modify it. We call this free software because the user is free. -

http://www.fsf.org

Free denotes Freedom and not Free of cost

Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.

http://www.opensource.org/

Suggested to read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.htmlhttp://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

MIT License

Copyright (c)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copyof this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to dealin the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rightsto use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sellcopies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software isfurnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included inall copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THEAUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

GPL ( a CopyLeft )

GPL and many Free Software licenses are Copy left

CopyLeft is legal mechanism to protect the modification and redistribution rights for free software

GPL v2.0 and GPL v3.0 available

Most popular license

Its a viral license.

I like viralness Open Source to open Sorce, business to business.

Creative Commons

Attribution (By): Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these.

Noncommercial (nc): Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only for noncommercial purposes.

Non-derivative (nd): Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based on it.

Share-alike ShareAlike (sa): Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the original work

16 Possible combination , Only 11 are Valid (nd+sa is invalid)

I really Like CC-By-SA and CC-SA (neki kar dariya mei daal)

http://www.reasonforliberty.com/ethics/choose-creative-commons-over-copyright.html

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses

FOSS economics

Common wayDual license model Ex- MySQL

Dual product model Ex-

Professional services model Ex- JBoss

http://www.spacebug.com/how_to_make_money_from_open_source.html

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3686616

http://tinyurl.com/66y774

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron-9.html

Linux Distro

Distro = a GNU/Linux Operating System Distribution

There are more then 300 Linux Distro existhttp://distrowatch.com/

Redhat is most successful distro for commercial usage

Mint, Ubuntu , Fedora, Debian, OpenSuse are most popular

Most distro has Live DVD/ Live CD/ Live USB possibleLet me coin Plug-n-Boot

You can create your own Linux Distrohttp://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

http://tinyurl.com/88wja3 Custom Fedora Spins

Installating Linux

Download Your Desired Linux Distro, Or take a copy of from your friend. (its totally legal)In IITD , http://10.10.4.1 is local mirror

http://www.howtoforge.com/ Website contains a Tutorials with screenshots for instructions to install.

Notice the Feedom

Installing a new Software

Every Distro maintains Repo (repository) of Packages/Software

Every Distro install a new packages from online repossudo yum install vlc

sudo apt-get install vlc

yum (Yumex) and apt-get (Synaptic Package Manager) are package mangerGUI software interface for installation of new packages

You can also install using source codemake configure; make ; make install

Demo

Common Software (1)

EducationMoodle , OpenAdmin, NewGenLib, open-ils,

Denemo, Gcompris, Gnu Paint, Inkscape, Kalzium , Kanagram , Kig, kpercentage, kstars, ktouch, kturtle, kvoctrain, kino, qcad, screem, scribus, tomboy, tuxmath, tuxpaint,

OpenSuse has Li-f-e - http://en.opensuse.org/Education/Live

Ubuntu has special Disto http://edubuntu.org/

http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/ict_edu.asp

http://www.edubuntu.org/applications/8.04

http://bit.ly/4BqzN

http://www.linuxalt.com/ Visit to get Alternative Softwares in linux

Common Software (2)

Music , Audio n Video(play) vlc, mplayer, gmplayer, Cheese (web cam tool)9

(Audio edit) Audacity, Traverso

(Video edit) Avidmux,

(CD /DVD) DVD styler , InfraRecorder, K3b

(Screen Capture) - xvidcap and istanbul

special Disto www.64studio.com

http://www.opensound.com/ossapps.html


Common Software (3)

InternetFirefox is The Best internet browser, Opera is also cool.

Do not use IE - it is just a crap software

Pidgin Internet messenger (gtalk, yahoo, irc )

Gyachi (yahoo messenger for Linux)

Transmission, (bittorrent client), gftp

Many many other software

gwet -c http://download.com/file.zip OR use proz


Common Software (4)

Engineering A hell lot of tool are available just search on google

Eclipse is most popular IDE for programming

gcc toolchain is for system programming

GTK and many GUI framework are available.

Titanium is latest API for building cross-platform Desktop (window , linux) and Mobile application (iPhone, android)

TinyCAD, Qcad, (http://opencollector.org/collector.php )

FreeCAD, SweetHome 3D

Fedora Electronics Lab Spin


Common Software (5)

Animation, photoBlender 3D design tool, alternative to Maya

Inkscape Vector drawing tool

GIMP A photo editing tool. Alternate to photoshop

3D movie generated using these toolElephants Dream

http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/

Demo Time

You can set a animation studio with a very less cost


Common Software (6)

DocumentationLatex & Kile The best documentation tool. - need some effort to learn

Dia,

Open Office Org

Scribus alt to abobe pagemaker

Xpdf, kpdf, evince, command line pdf utils.


Common Software (7)

Other Softwaregparted, gedit, F-spot, digicam, GNUcash, isomaker,

http://sourceforge.net/ - 1,80,000+ project

You can install Open Source tool on window too !

Search Google to get most recent released Open source tool

There are Purpose based Distro available.

http://linuxappfinder.com/

http://www.linuxalt.com/ http://www.osalt.com/

http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/top-100-of-the-best-useful-opensource-applications/

Demo

Demo Of Linux Desktop and Common Softwares

Support FOSS

Use Linux Distro, Use Open Source Software

Create and Share your assignment and project work under GNU GPL license.

Advocate for FOSS - http://fosscomm.in/IfYouAre

Always use CC license for Documents, Photos and Video

Use Open Office and Open Formatshttp://tinyvid.tv/ Upload ogg video here

http://www.dailymotion.com/openvideodemo

Firefox 3.5+ support native html5 ogg support.

Why Open Office

Its the Open Standard which matter

ODF (Open Document Format) is odt, - Text

odp Presentation

ods - SpreadSheet

No vendor lock in

Export to pdf, swf, html, tex and various other format

http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.1/OS/OpenDocument-v1.1.pdf

http://www.learnopenoffice.org/

FOSS Magazine

Onlinehttp://www.linuxfordevices.com/

https://www.linuxpromagazine.com/

Google linux , follow #linux on twitter

OfflineLinux for you in India

Digit August issue Contains Fast track to Open Source

How & from Where should I start my journey to Linux and Open Source World

Install Linux and use it

Take some good books and then read them

If possible, take some certification program (RedHat)

http://lug-iitd.org/Nice_Linux_Links

Question ?

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