http://opensourcedailyguide.com Staying up-to-date with the latest news on Open Source Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:06:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Image Source:lh6.google.com Creativity will never reach its peak without competition. Just like online video companies. And if every tool for videos are not open sourced, free speech will be hindered. Thats why Miro came out to be. It was designed to give more ... http://opensourcedailyguide.com/free-softwares/miro/ Image Source: homotron.net Last Tuesday, Google proudly announced the release of the source code for its much awaited mobile phone Android's operating system. It is now available for everybody FREE of charge. By this bold move of making the operating ... http://opensourcedailyguide.com/operating-systems/googles-android-source-code/ Image Source:oreillynet.com The open source and free software market is rising high with its continued user appreciation. The free software products like Linux and others are moving from the boundaries of servers, to personal desktops and laptops. But the ... http://opensourcedailyguide.com/information/free-software-and-open-source-explained/ Image Source: www.zwahlendesign.ch The ' dd ' command is one of the original Unix utilities and should be in everyone's tool box. It can strip headers, extract parts of binary files and write into the middle of floppy disks; it is used by the Linux kernel Makefiles to make boot images. ... http://opensourcedailyguide.com/information/using-%e2%80%98dd%e2%80%99-commands/ Now and then, the giant  software wholesaler do something that their customers are locked into the proprietary products they put on the market. Some may think that because of the enormous amount of licenses and certifications, that’s why others are completely switching to Linux. One should not shift it’s gear ... http://opensourcedailyguide.com/general-info/the-real-thing/ Ubuntu is an open source operating system designed for desktops, laptops and even servers. It is distributed by Linux based on Debian GNU/Linux. Ubuntu is owned by Mark Shuttleworth, an entrepreneur from South Africa where the name Ubuntu originated. In case you are curious about the concept of Ubuntu, it ... http://opensourcedailyguide.com/operating-systems/all-about-ubuntu/ One of the languages developed on top of the Java Virtual Machine is the Jython, and this project began in 1997. the development of the language has been passed on to several lead developers until Sun Microsystems took over and worked full time on it. Jython 2.2 which is the ... http://opensourcedailyguide.com/information/jython-language/ When using the Open Source Software for commercial gain minus the tricks and preserving the community and openness aspects, there are two things to consider: that payment is collected proportionate to the advantage gained from the software; and that active user in the community can have the assurance that their ... http://opensourcedailyguide.com/information/commercialization-of-osa/ Open source software and open source documents are fast gaining popularity. It is firmly gaining a growing market share as well as getting the corporate and the public’s interests. It is also quickly entering mainstream, being in the technology world starting 1998. However its concept began alongside the birth of ... http://opensourcedailyguide.com/information/open-source-software-and-documents/ There are two types of software being used: the conventional closed source from software vendors; and the open source, with Linux and MySQL as examples. Both software have managed to be on the same footing and is in existence probably almost at the same time, around the start of the ... http://opensourcedailyguide.com/information/software-types/