FOSSintro Pres DAV

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An Introduction to

Free and Open Source Software

World

By :Parin [email protected]

http://twitter.com/FOSSmaniac

Note: I attribute this work to Mr. Narendra Sisodiya ( http://narendra.techfandu.org ) as I haveremixed his presentation named IntroFOSS.odp


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How it all started ??

http://bit.ly/RevolutionOS


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American Software Freedom Activist andcomputer programmer.

1983, launched the GNU Project

GNU is a Operating System. Full project wasnever completed.

1985, set up the Free Software Foundation

Wrote GNU GPL license

GNU development tools, ex gcc compilerStallman popularized the concept of Copyleft

Richard M. Stallman aka RMS

http://bit.ly/wikiRMS


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What is Free software??

"Free software" is a matter ofliberty, not price. To understand

the concept, you should think of"free" as in "free speech," not as

in "free beer."

http://fsf.org


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

More precisely, it means that the program's users have thefour essential freedoms:

The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom0).

The freedom to study how the program works, and change

it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to thesource code is a precondition for this.

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

The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions

to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the wholecommunity a chance to benefit from your changes. Accessto the source code is a precondition for this.

http://bit.ly/FreeSW


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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 3, 29 June 2007

Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this licensedocument, but changing it is not allowed.Preamble

The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and otherkinds of works.

The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to takeaway your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNUGeneral Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share andchange all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its

users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public Licensefor most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by itsauthors. You can apply it to your programs, too.

Read Full License at : http://bit.ly/GNUsGPL


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Linus Torvalds

1991, a Finnish student, used the GNUdevelopment tools to produce Linux, anoperating 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 developed

Debian , Slackware

http://bit.ly/Linus


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GNU/Linux Distribution

Distro is a GNU/Linux Operating System

Red Hat is the most successful commmercial Distro.

Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Linux Mint etc. are some of the mostpopular Distros.

Almost all the Distros have Live CD which means you can justPlug and Boot i.e. The whole OS runs on RAM i.e. your Hard Diskuntouched.

Over 300 Distro exist more info at the URL below!

http://distrowatch.com


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http://bit.ly/OpenMissesFree

Open Source

When we callsoftware free, wemean that itrespects the users'

essentialfreedoms: thefreedom to run it,to study andchange it, and toredistribute copies

with or withoutchanges.

http://fsf.org

Open source is adevelopment method forsoftware that harnessesthe power of distributed

peer review andtransparency of process.

The promise of opensource is better quality,higher reliability, more

flexibility, lower cost,

and an end to predatoryvendor lock-in.

http://opensource.org

Free vs


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Why FOSS andGNU/Linux ?? (1)

Freedom matters

Power to User

Free of Charge (mostly but notneccessary)

Economical

No Vendor Lock-in

Based on Open Standards (odt, png,

svg ..)

No need of Anti-Virus

Most of them are Cross Platform

Most companies use FOSS tooleven if they produce non-foss

product (Ex. java tools)

Fastest Super Computer to Serverof google to mobile and your Airtel

Beetel router use Linux

Supports 100+ file systems

Schedule jobs using crond

No need to Reboot after installing

softwares

http://bit.ly/101Reasons


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Why FOSS and

GNU/Linux??(2)No need to install extra Device drivers

Multiple Workspaces

Desktop full of eyecandy w/

3D Compiz Desktop and KWin

Most Documented OS

No more Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)

Both Community Support andCommercial Support available

Linux is in embedded devices.

Easy to Install and Use

Linux now used in Mobiles too(Ex.OpenMoko, Android, Maemo,Badaetc.)

GeeXbox - A 19MB OS which is aHome Theater based on Linux

No Need to buy Pirated versions, Trialsetc.

No need to use obsolete tools.

S/W with latest standards (Ex. Firefox

supports HTML5)

Highly Secure

Built in virtualization (Xen,KVM,VirtualBox etc.)

http://bit.ly/101Reasons


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What is School OS??

SchoolOS is complete and fully functional operatingsystem based on the Gnome window managers andpowered by the popular Ubuntu (http://ubuntu.com)

Linux Distribution but It isMonoFree

. School OSComes with Live DVD which specially made for Indianstudents. SchoolOS is joint collaboration of NCERT ,IIT Delhi and Knowledge Commons. It is a Free andOpen Source Software.

http://schoolos.org


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Some FOSS you should

use!1. Mozilla FirefoxWorld's No.1 Browser

2. OpenOffice.Org

Office Suite

3.VLC PlayerLets you play almost any mediaformat

4.Notepad++

A modern text editor

5.Google ChromeBrowser

6.HTTrackerWebsite Copier

7. Eclipse IDE and

Netbeans IDE ( For Java ,C/C++ and more )

8. Dev C++IDE

9. Audacity

Audio Editor

10. AvidemuxVideo Editor


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Alternatives/Replacements to somePopular Proprietary S/w

Photoshop GIMP

3ds Max and Maya - Blender

MS Office Koffice, OpenOffice.Org

IE Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome

Nero Infra Recorder, Brasero, K3b

Notepad- Notepad++,Kate,GEdit

Partition Magic Gparted

Sound Forge ReZound

MS Word Kile and LaTeX

MS Frontpage BlueFish, KompozeR

Messenger Pidgin, Kopete

mIRC Xchat, Quassel IRC

Corel Inkscape

Adobe Pagemaker Scribus

Dreamweaver Bluefish,Aptana.org

MS Outlook MozillaThunderbird, Evolution

PDF utils Xpdf, Kpdf, Evince,PDFedit etc.More at:

http://linuxappfinder.comhttp://linuxalt.comhttp://alternativesto.nethttp://bit.ly/100BestUbuntu
http://linuxappfinder.com/http://linuxalt.com/http://alternativesto.net/http://alternativesto.net/http://linuxalt.com/http://linuxappfinder.com/


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Demos


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1)KAlgebra2)Kig3)GNU Plot

4)GNU Octave5)KGeography6)Kturtle7)Kwordquiz Tutorial at http://bit.ly/Kwordquiz8)Stellarium9)Celestia

10)Keduca11)Kanagram12)Ktouch13)gChemical14)BK Chem Tutorial at http://bit.ly/BKChemTutorials15)Kalzium16)Dia Diagram Editor17)FET Tutorial at http://bit.ly/FETtutorial18)eToys19)g++20)Gtk-recordmydesktop


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GNU Plot

Used to plot graphs

For example, try:

gnuplot> plot sin(x)/xgnuplot> splot sin(x*y/20)gnuplot> plot sin(x) title 'SineFunction', tan(x) title 'Tangent

Tutorial at http://bit.ly/GNUplot

GNU Octave

MATLAB compatible Syntax Find sum, mean, std. deviation etc

Matrix Calculation Solve Linear Equation in 3 Variables

using Matrix

Tutorial at http://bit.ly/OctaveWiki


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Questions ??

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