Introduction to FOSS, SRM University

Introduction to FOSS, SRM University

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  Introduction to free& open source software SRM University, Chennai, India
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  How many ofyou have used .. Mozilla Firefox
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  And Thunderbird
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  and Filezilla
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  and VLC media player
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  also OpenOffice
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  What is commonin all of them? All the above are Free and Open Source Software.
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  Confused?
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  Lets go back... History
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  In 1985 Richard Stallmanformed FSF
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  ● He along with a group of like minded programmers started work in developing the tools needed to make a complete OS - like an editor (Emacs), a C compiler (GCC), libraries and all associated generic Unix tools like cat,ls, chmod etc
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  In year 1990 Afinnish student by name Linus Torvalds
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  Wrote kernel And releasedit under GPL. This kernel is now popularly known as Linux.
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  So Gnu toolchains +kernel == Gnu/Linux
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  What are variousdistros ?
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  Also After 1997, aprogramming model other than the GPLed model emerged which is now popularly known as the Open Source Initiative.
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  The Pyramid
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  So the questionis .. Why should i learn free & opensource software, Gnu/Linux? How and where to look for help?
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  Why should ilearn free & opensource software? For your good. Better knowledge about how things/technology works. Better paid job?
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  How and whereto look for help? The Linux Documenatation Project (tldp.org) Distribution/software specific websites
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  But am nota coder ….. You can still help and be part of the community Localization Documentation Artwork Bug Reporting Mentoring
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  Questions?
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  Thanks Atul Jha @koolhead17