1. THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT IN
NETWORKS AND
COMMUNICATIONS
Name : HAZIQ ISKANDAR B. HASRIN
Form : 4 ETA
Year : 2013
Subject : INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
Teacher’s Name :
2. 1.0 INTRODUCTION
Open source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available and
licensed with an open source license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to
study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. Open source
software is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open source software is
the most prominent example of open sourcedevelopment and often compared to (technically
defined) user-generated content or (legally defined) open content movements.[1]
A report by the Standish Group states that adoption of open source software models has
resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers.
Open source hardware consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by
the Open design movement. Both free and open-source software (FOSS) as well as open
source hardware is created by this open source culture movement and applies a like concept to
a variety of components. The term usually means that information about the hardware is
easily discerned. Hardware design (i.e. mechanical drawings, schematics, bills of
material, PCB layout data, HDL source code and integrated circuit layout data), in addition to
the software that drives the hardware, are all released with the FOSS approach.
Since the rise of reconfigurable programmable logic devices, sharing of logic designs has
been a form of open source hardware. Instead of the schematics, hardware description
language (HDL) code is shared. HDL descriptions are commonly used to set up system-on-a-
chip systems either in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) or directly in application-
specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs. HDL modules, when distributed, are
called semiconductor intellectual property cores, or IP cores.
3. 2.0 THE LATEST OPEN SOURCE
OPERATING SYSTEM (OS)
2.1 Meaning Of Open Source Operating System (OS)
An operating system is a set of programs containing instructions that coordinate all the
activities among computer hardware resources. Most operating system perform similar
function that includes starting a computer, provide a user interface, managing program,
managing memory and configuring devices. Some operating system also allows user to
control a network and administer security.
Open Source Operating System is any operating system that is free to use and which provides
the original code where the source code is available (under a copyright license) to the public,
which enables them to use, modify / enhance the operating system, and redistribute the
modified (or unmodified) form of the operating system. The advance user can modify the
code of the operating system to make it works better for them in starting the computer or a
likely user interface.
![1.0 INTRODUCTION
Open source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available and
licensed with an open source license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to
study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. Open source
software is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open source software is
the most prominent example of open sourcedevelopment and often compared to (technically
defined) user-generated content or (legally defined) open content movements.[1]
A report by the Standish Group states that adoption of open source software models has
resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers.
Open source hardware consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by
the Open design movement. Both free and open-source software (FOSS) as well as open
source hardware is created by this open source culture movement and applies a like concept to
a variety of components. The term usually means that information about the hardware is
easily discerned. Hardware design (i.e. mechanical drawings, schematics, bills of
material, PCB layout data, HDL source code and integrated circuit layout data), in addition to
the software that drives the hardware, are all released with the FOSS approach.
Since the rise of reconfigurable programmable logic devices, sharing of logic designs has
been a form of open source hardware. Instead of the schematics, hardware description
language (HDL) code is shared. HDL descriptions are commonly used to set up system-on-a-
chip systems either in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) or directly in application-
specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs. HDL modules, when distributed, are
called semiconductor intellectual property cores, or IP cores.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)