What is Open source?

Open source is a good source that is Open

It’s a culture of sharing

A free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software

Free Redistribution: the software can be freely given away or sold.

Source Code: the source code must either be included or freely obtainable.

Derived Works: redistribution of modifications must be allowed.

No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups: no-one can be locked out.

No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor: commercial users cannot be excluded.

License Must Not Be Specific to a Product:

License Must Not Restrict Other Software:

The Open Source Initiative

A Brief History…………………………….

Open Source History

The Hacker’s culture

Richard Stallman

In 1985, Stallman created the Free Software Foundation, a tax exempt charity, to support his work and that of his collaborators. Stallman personally created an enormous body of software: GCC (C compiler), GDB (debugger), Emacs (text editor), and a number of other tools.

The "open source" label itself came out of a strategy session held on February 3rd 1998 in Palo Alto, California

Open Source Birthday!

Todd Anderson, Chris Peterson, John "maddog" Hall and Larry Augustin (both of Linux International), Sam Ockman (of the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group), and Eric Raymond.

Netscape's turns free browser!!!

Linus Torvalds Linux OS

Phil Hughes Linux Journal

The Open Source Culture

It was build on hackers culture.

Hackers?

There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers. The members of this culture originated the term ‘hacker’.

Hackers built the Internet.

Hackers made the Unix/Linux operating system what it is today.

Hackers run Usenet.

Hackers make the World Wide Web work.

Read and repeat these five principles;

1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.

2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.

3. Boredom and drudgery are evil.

4. Freedom is good.

5. Attitude is no substitute for competence.

The Hacker Attitude

FreedomFreedom

Liberation of third world countries like Nigeria

Safety and Confidence

Research

Speed

Knowledge

This is the repository of almost all Opensource software's.

It has produced great software’s like:

Asterisk/OpenH.3237-ZipphpBBGaime.t.c

SourceForge.net

The Linux Operating System is one of the greatest achievement of the Open source community.

Its freeIts well DocumentedIts Unix cloneGood for programmingGood for ServersVery stableGood as Real-time/Embedded OS

LinuxLinux

Linux FlavorsLinux Flavors

Redhat Linux and Fedora Core

Debian Linux

Gentoo Linux

Knopix Linux

Ubuntu Linux

Suse Linux

Wazobia Linux

Open Source Open Source SoftwaresSoftwares

Squid Proxy Server

Apache Web server

PHP Web programming

Perl Systems and CGI Programming

G++ Linux C++ compiler

Mysql Database Software

How do I become computer literate?

How do I become an IT professional?

How do I become an Open source Person

How can I become a Hacker!?

How?How?

Almighty URLAlmighty URL

http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/

Other Usefull WebsitesOther Usefull Websites

www.google.comhttp://www.opensource.orghttp://www.linuxdevices.com/http://www.sunsource.net/http://www.gnu.org/www. sourceforge.net www.tldp.orgwww.freshmeat.net/ www.yolinux.comhttp://www.linuxgazette.com/

Siemens Joins Open Source Development Labs

IBM, Sony, Novell start Linux patent sharing project

The biggest fish in the Linux pond have established a new collaborative patent sharing model in order to promote innovation and open source technology. The participants of the new Open Invention Network (OIN) include IBM, Sony, Philips, Novell, and Redhat.

News!!!News!!!

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet

Google, A major Linux Power house