OSS Web Recource

• OSS Websites
• Mailing list
• Forum – online discussion
• Usenet newsgroup – forum discussions based on particular topic of interest

Type Of OSS

OFFICE SOFTWARE

• Abiword - word processing tool
• Open Office.org - business productivity suite

OPERATING SYSTEMS

• GNU/Linux (various versions or distributions)
• OpenSolaris

IT SECURITY

• Smoothwall - firewall and security tools
• Wireshark (aka Ethereal) - security application
• KeePass - password management

IMAGES / MULTIMEDIA

• GIMP - image processing/graphics editing
• VLC - multimedia file playback

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

• Ruby on Rails - rapid web application development
• Eclipse - integrated development environment
• Joomla - enterprise content management system

History Of Open Source

• 1985 ~ Free Software Foundation published the GNU manifesto by Richard Mathew Stallman
• 1989 ~ Stallman released the first program independent GNU General Public License known as GPL or copyleft
• 1990 ~ Linus Torvalds write his own kernel and released it under GPL

A Brief History of Operating Systems

• Operating Systems (OS) are the layer of software that sits between hardware and higher level pieces of function like applications and middleware. They help applications and middleware make use of the underlying hardware by doing things like managing memory, providing device driver support for hardware components and file systems to store and organize information on disk.

• While not technically part of the operating system layer, many modern operating systems are package some higher level function such as shells (also known as graphical user interfaces (GUI)), storage compression, firewalls, internet access, and even web browsers. This paper is a brief overview of the key operating systems in the market, their ancestry, their design points and their differentiating features.

• These were the first operating systems and this still describes the basic function of an OS. Operating systems evolved and it became common to bundle generally used utilities and applications with the base OS function.

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