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An Introduction to  Free and Open Source Software World By : Parin Sharma  parin.sharma@gmail.com  http://twitter.com/ FOSSmaniac Note: I attribute this work to Mr. Narendra Sisodiya ( http://narendra.techfandu.org  ) as I have remixed his presentation named IntroFOSS.odp
CC-By-SA 2.5 In This work is Licensed under  Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India You have Freedom to Share  — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix  — to adapt the work Share Under the following Conditions Attribution  — You must attribute the work by proving the name of author and homepage. (Parin Sharma http://parin.isa-geek.com) Share Alike  — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
How it all started ?? http://bit.ly/ RevolutionOS
American Software Freedom Activist and computer programmer. 1983, launched the GNU Project GNU is a Operating System. Full project was never completed. 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation Wrote GNU GPL license GNU development tools, ex gcc compiler Stallman popularized the concept of Copyleft  Richard M. Stallman aka RMS http://bit.ly/ wikiRMS
What is Free software?? " Free software " is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer. " http://fsf.org
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 the four essential freedoms:  The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). The freedom to study how the program works, and change  it to make it do what you wish (freedom  1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.  The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).  The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.  http://bit.ly/ FreeSW
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change 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 License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too. Read Full License at : http://bit.ly/ GNUsGPL
Linus Torvalds 1991, a Finnish student, used the GNU development tools to produce Linux, an operating 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
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 most popular Distros. Almost all the Distros have Live CD which means you can just Plug and Boot i.e. The whole OS runs on RAM i.e. your Hard Disk untouched. Over 300 Distro exist more info at the URL below! http://distrowatch.com
http://bit.ly/ OpenMissesFree Open Source  When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes.  http://fsf.org Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in. http://opensource.org Free  vs
Why FOSS and GNU/Linux ?? (1) Freedom matters  Power to User Free of Charge (mostly but not  neccessary) 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 tool even if they produce non-foss product (Ex. java tools) Fastest Super Computer to Server of 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
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 and Commercial Support available Linux is in embedded devices. Easy to Install and Use Linux now used in Mobiles too(Ex. OpenMoko, Android, Maemo,Bada etc.) GeeXbox - A 19MB OS which is a Home Theater based on Linux No Need to buy Pirated versions, Trials etc. No need to use obsolete tools. S/W with latest standards (Ex. Firefox supports HTML5) Highly Secure Built in virtualization (Xen,KVM,Virtual Box etc.) http://bit.ly/ 101Reasons
What is School OS?? SchoolOS  is complete and fully functional operating system based on the Gnome window managers and powered by the popular Ubuntu (http://ubuntu.com) Linux Distribution but It is  MonoFree . School OS Comes with Live DVD which specially made for Indian students. SchoolOS is joint collaboration of  NCERT  ,  IIT Delhi  and  Knowledge Commons .  It is a Free and Open Source Software. http://schoolos.org
Some FOSS you should use!  1. Mozilla Firefox World's No.1 Browser 2. OpenOffice.Org  Office Suite 3.VLC Player Lets you play almost any media format 4.Notepad++ A modern text editor 5.Google Chrome Browser 6.HTTracker Website Copier 7. Eclipse IDE and Netbeans IDE ( For Java , C/C++ and more ) 8. Dev C++  IDE 9. Audacity  Audio Editor 10. Avidemux Video Editor
Alternatives/Replacements to some Popular 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 – Mozilla Thunderbird, Evolution PDF utils – Xpdf, Kpdf, Evince, PDFedit etc. More at: http://linuxappfinder.com http://linuxalt.com http://alternativesto.net http://bit.ly/100BestUbuntu
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Introduction to Free and Open Source Software World

  • 1. An Introduction to Free and Open Source Software World By : Parin Sharma parin.sharma@gmail.com http://twitter.com/ FOSSmaniac Note: I attribute this work to Mr. Narendra Sisodiya ( http://narendra.techfandu.org ) as I have remixed his presentation named IntroFOSS.odp
  • 2. CC-By-SA 2.5 In This work is Licensed under Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India You have Freedom to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work Share Under the following Conditions Attribution — You must attribute the work by proving the name of author and homepage. (Parin Sharma http://parin.isa-geek.com) Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
  • 3. How it all started ?? http://bit.ly/ RevolutionOS
  • 4. American Software Freedom Activist and computer programmer. 1983, launched the GNU Project GNU is a Operating System. Full project was never completed. 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation Wrote GNU GPL license GNU development tools, ex gcc compiler Stallman popularized the concept of Copyleft Richard M. Stallman aka RMS http://bit.ly/ wikiRMS
  • 5. What is Free software?? &quot; Free software &quot; is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of &quot;free&quot; as in &quot;free speech,&quot; not as in &quot;free beer. &quot; http://fsf.org
  • 6. 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 the four essential freedoms: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. http://bit.ly/ FreeSW
  • 7. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works. The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change 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 License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too. Read Full License at : http://bit.ly/ GNUsGPL
  • 8. Linus Torvalds 1991, a Finnish student, used the GNU development tools to produce Linux, an operating 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
  • 9. 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 most popular Distros. Almost all the Distros have Live CD which means you can just Plug and Boot i.e. The whole OS runs on RAM i.e. your Hard Disk untouched. Over 300 Distro exist more info at the URL below! http://distrowatch.com
  • 10. http://bit.ly/ OpenMissesFree Open Source When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. http://fsf.org Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in. http://opensource.org Free vs
  • 11. Why FOSS and GNU/Linux ?? (1) Freedom matters Power to User Free of Charge (mostly but not neccessary) 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 tool even if they produce non-foss product (Ex. java tools) Fastest Super Computer to Server of 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
  • 12. 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 and Commercial Support available Linux is in embedded devices. Easy to Install and Use Linux now used in Mobiles too(Ex. OpenMoko, Android, Maemo,Bada etc.) GeeXbox - A 19MB OS which is a Home Theater based on Linux No Need to buy Pirated versions, Trials etc. No need to use obsolete tools. S/W with latest standards (Ex. Firefox supports HTML5) Highly Secure Built in virtualization (Xen,KVM,Virtual Box etc.) http://bit.ly/ 101Reasons
  • 13. What is School OS?? SchoolOS is complete and fully functional operating system based on the Gnome window managers and powered by the popular Ubuntu (http://ubuntu.com) Linux Distribution but It is MonoFree . School OS Comes with Live DVD which specially made for Indian students. SchoolOS is joint collaboration of NCERT , IIT Delhi and Knowledge Commons . It is a Free and Open Source Software. http://schoolos.org
  • 14. Some FOSS you should use! 1. Mozilla Firefox World's No.1 Browser 2. OpenOffice.Org Office Suite 3.VLC Player Lets you play almost any media format 4.Notepad++ A modern text editor 5.Google Chrome Browser 6.HTTracker Website Copier 7. Eclipse IDE and Netbeans IDE ( For Java , C/C++ and more ) 8. Dev C++ IDE 9. Audacity Audio Editor 10. Avidemux Video Editor
  • 15. Alternatives/Replacements to some Popular 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 – Mozilla Thunderbird, Evolution PDF utils – Xpdf, Kpdf, Evince, PDFedit etc. More at: http://linuxappfinder.com http://linuxalt.com http://alternativesto.net http://bit.ly/100BestUbuntu
  • 16. Demos
  • 17.
  • 18. Kig
  • 23. Kwordquiz Tutorial at http://bit.ly/ Kwordquiz
  • 30. BK Chem Tutorial at http://bit.ly/ BKChemTutorials
  • 33. FET Tutorial at http://bit.ly/ FETtutorial
  • 34. eToys
  • 35. g++
  • 37.
  • 38. Find sum, mean, std. deviation etc
  • 40. Solve Linear Equation in 3 Variables using Matrix Tutorial at http://bit.ly/ OctaveWiki
  • 41. Questions ?? [Photo credit : alexanderdrachmann ]
  • 42. Drop an email at: [email_address] or follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ FOSSmaniac In case of any queries / problems / Feedback / Suggestions: