OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE...

1. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE BY R.KALYANKUMAR

4. Its really surprising about those talents who have found the open source software which gave rise to the IT field..

5. Various small companies as well as larger companies still survive in IT field due this open source software

9. # Tomcat web server - web container

10. # Drupal — content management system

11. # Eclipse - software framework for "rich-client applications"

12. # FreeBSD - operating system derived from Unix

13. # GNU Project - "a sufficient body of free software."

15. # Linux - operating system based on Unix

16. # Mediawiki — wiki server software, the software that runs Wikipedia

17. # MongoDB - document-oriented, non-relational database

18. # Moodle - course management system

19. # Mozilla Firefox - web browser

21. Examples include collage, found footage film, music, and appropriation art.

22. Open source culture is one in which fixations, works entitled to copyright protection, are made generally available.

24. Open Source Culture (OSC) maintain that some intellectual property law needs to exist to protect cultural producers.

25. Older analog technologies such as the telephone or television have limitations on the kind of interaction users can have.

28. It is now commonly used to describe forms of innovative publishing of online journalism, rather than the sourcing of news stories by a professional journalist.

30. Blogs consist of periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts, using a technology that makes webpages easily updatable with no understanding of design, code, or file transfer required.

33. of ways it can be used in schools. There are many issues facing educators who want to

34. use technology and I feel that many of them can be addressed by using Open Source.

35. Just so it is clear, I am not suggesting that Open Source is a silver bullet or that it is right

36. to use in every situation.

38. to use in every situation. I am just pointing out that it should, at least, be a consideration

39. when making any decisions about technology that can effect schools or the community.

41. There are thousands of projects that are currently being used in schools and many more that could be.

42. Below is an overview of just a few of the Open Source projects that educators maybe concerned with.

44. It is free and can be easily installed on almost any computer. Red Hat Linux is the most popular distribution(version) of Linux in the United States. It offers ease of set-up, use, and maintenance.

45. Another popular distribution is Yellow Dog Linux. It is based on Red Hat and made torun on Apple computers.

47. It runs on all major platforms and is free monetarily and liberty wise.

48. There are almost no excuses for a school to spend money on MS Office when this alternative is available.

49. There are also other Office solutions as well.

51. It was created by a few hobbyists who were not happy with the closed-sourcesolutions available.

52. They started “patching” (hence the name) a program together to filltheir needs.

53. Long story short, as of May 2003, Apache serves 63% of all Internet webpages. (Netcraft Web Server Survey, 2003)

54. DIFF BTWN CLOSED & OPENSOURCE

56. It cannot only save money, but it also provide an avenue to the latest in technology.

57. The community behind Open Source is concerned with creating the best products possible and they do it for fun.

59. One of the most common arguments against Open Source in education is “In the

60. real world my child is going to need to know Microsoft Word (insert any closed-sourceprogram here) so that is what they should be learning.”

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