Free Open Source Software
Free Open Source Software (Foss) is an international phenomenon and popular concept today, and now most of the work done in the computer science and information technologies field, academic and research oriented in nature.Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Understand the concept should think of ‘‘free’’ as in ‘‘free speech,’’ not as in ‘‘free beer.’’
Free software is a matter of the users’ freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Refers to four kinds of freedom for the users of the software. The First freedom to run the program for any purpose, The Second freedoms to study how the program works and the third freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor, Final freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public.
The GNU (Gnu’s Not UNIX) General Public License is one of the most popular licenses used in free software. The GPL provides the user with three basic rights to copy the software, and right to change the software and to access the source code from anybody from anywhere. Linux and most of the Foss license under the GPL and FSF (Free Software foundation) and its source code is freely available to everyone
The Linux is a one prominent example for Foss .It was created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland
The promise of open source software is best quality, flexibility and reliability. Here some of the best and most used open source software in the world.
Open source | Purpose | Download From |
Fedora | Linux Distributions | www.fedora.redhat.com |
Debian Gnu/Linux | Linux Distributions | www.debian.org |
Slackware | Linux Distributions | www.slackware.com |
Mandriva | Linux Distributions | www.mandriva.com |
Ubundulinux | Linux Distributions | www.ubundulinux.org |
Red Hat | Linux Distributions | www.redhat.com |
Mozilla Firefox | Web browser | www.mozilla.com |
Miro | Internet TV | www.getmiro.com |
VLC | Video players | www.videolan.org |
Open office | Office Suites | www.openoffice.org |
Abiword | A Word Processor | www.abisource.com |
Audacity | Sound Recording Tool | |
Filezilla | Excellent FTP program | www.filezillaproject.org |
PeaZip | Fantastic archiving utility | www.peazip.sourceforge.net |
