Introduction to FOSS world

1. An Introduction to Free and Open Source World By – Narendra Sisodiya http://narendra.techfandu.org (C) Narendra Sisodiya, Licensed under CC-By-Sa 2.5 In

4. Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

5. Who I am I am a independent FOSS activist, supporter, contributor, a jQuery lover who is working on Project Eduvid. Contact : [email_address] Twitter : http://twitter.com/eduvid WebSite: http://narendra.techfandu.org

7. Free of Cost (Not always)

8. No Vendor Lock in

9. Open Standard (odt, png ..)

10. No Virus at all

11. Compatibility with other OS

12. Fast Boot – 1 minute to Boot

13. Automate Jobs using Command Line.

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

16. Linux can scale to 1024 processors on a single computer

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

18. Support 100+ file system http://cityblogger.com/archives/2007/01/24/101-reasons-why-linux-is-better-than-windows

20. Community Support

21. Excellent for programming

22. Plug-n-boot–testdrive w/o install

23. Linux can run on old hardware with 32 MB ram

24. Support Dual boot

26. Now Google and most MNC support FOSS

27. Growth rate of 25% per year.

28. Lost of choice for software

29. No piracy

30. True 64 bit distro available

31. Easy test drive (Ex Mysql is free of cost) http://cityblogger.com/archives/2007/01/24/101-reasons-why-linux-is-better-than-windows

33. No need for extra device drivers

34. Multiple Workspace

35. Purpose based Distro

36. Most documented OS

37. No Defragmentation needed

38. No more BSOD

40. Linux is used in embedded device as well

41. Now Mobile comes with Linux – Openmoko, Android

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

43. Behind Software you

45. 1983, launched the GNU Project

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

47. 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation

48. Wrote GNU GPL license

49. GNU development tools, ex gcc compiler

50. Stallman popularized the concept of copyleft Richard Matthew Stallman aka rms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

52. 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.

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

56. Kernel was the missing component of GNU Operating System

57. MCC Interim Linux, (1992) was first Linux Distro

58. GNU/Linux is appropriate term.

61. http://www.fsf.org

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

64. MIT License Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the &quot;Software&quot;), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED &quot;AS IS&quot;, 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 THE AUTHORS 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.

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

67. GPL v2.0 and GPL v3.0 available

68. Most popular license

69. Its a viral license.

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

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

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

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

75. 16 Possible combination , Only 11 are Valid (nd+sa is invalid)

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

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

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

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

81. Dual product model Ex-

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

84. http://tinyurl.com/66y774

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

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

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

93. Notice the Feedom

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

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

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

102. http://bit.ly/4BqzN http://www.linuxalt.com/ Visit to get Alternative Softwares in linux

104. (Audio edit) – Audacity, Traverso

105. (Video edit) – Avidmux,

106. (CD /DVD) – DVD styler , InfraRecorder, K3b

107. (Screen Capture) - xvidcap and istanbul

108. special Disto www.64studio.com

109. http://www.opensound.com/ossapps.html http://www.linuxalt.com/ Visit to get Alternative Softwares in linux

111. Do not use “IE” - it is just a crap software

112. Pidgin – Internet messenger (gtalk, yahoo, irc )

113. Gyachi (yahoo messenger for Linux)

114. Transmission, (bittorrent client), gftp

115. Many many other software

116. gwet -c http://download.com/file.zip OR use proz http://www.linuxalt.com/ Visit to get Alternative Softwares in linux

118. Eclipse is most popular IDE for programming

119. gcc toolchain is for system programming

120. GTK and many GUI framework are available.

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

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

123. FreeCAD, SweetHome 3D

124. Fedora Electronics Lab Spin http://www.linuxalt.com/ Visit to get Alternative Softwares in linux

126. Inkscape – Vector drawing tool

127. GIMP – A photo editing tool. Alternate to photoshop

129. http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/

132. Dia,

133. Open Office Org

134. Scribus – alt to abobe pagemaker

135. Xpdf, kpdf, evince, command line pdf utils. http://www.linuxalt.com/ Visit to get Alternative Softwares in linux

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

138. You can install Open Source tool on window too !

139. Search Google to get most recent released Open source tool

140. There are “Purpose based Distro” available.

141. http://linuxappfinder.com/

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

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

144. Demo Demo Of Linux Desktop and Common Softwares

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

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

148. Always use CC license for Documents, Photos and Video

150. http://www.dailymotion.com/openvideodemo

151. Firefox 3.5+ support native html5 ogg support.

154. odp – Presentation

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

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

158. http://www.learnopenoffice.org/

160. https://www.linuxpromagazine.com/

162. Digit – August issue Contains

163. “ Fast track to Open Source”

165. Take some good books and then read them

166. If possible, take some certification program (RedHat)

167. http://lug-iitd.org/Nice_Linux_Links

168. Question ? [Photo credit : alexanderdrachmann ]