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Free Software and Open Source: Explained

Monday, September 29th, 2008

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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 idea of free software and [...]

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Using ‘dd’ Commands

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

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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. It can be used to [...]

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Jython Language

Friday, May 30th, 2008

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 latest release matches up to [...]

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Commercialization of OSA

Monday, May 26th, 2008

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 license charges is compensated in [...]

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Open Source Software and Documents

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

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 computing. Frequently Asked Questions list [...]

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Software Types

Monday, May 19th, 2008

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 computing world. Recently, customers are [...]

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WSRP

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Web Services for Remote Portal provides a pattern for the portal application to allocate portlets between portals. It is the facility to produce an interface to useful function that can be used throughout the enterprise with little or no changes to existing code. Almost all of the newest versions of commercial and open space portal [...]

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Comparison of Open Source and Closed Source

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Wikipedia explained that:
The open source vs. closed source (alternatively called proprietary software) debate is sometimes heated.
Making money through traditional methods, such as sale of the use of individual copies and patent royalty payment, is more difficult and sometimes impractical with open source software. Some closed-source advocates see open source software as damaging to the market [...]

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Open Source Games

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Open source games are computer games assembled out of, and are themselves, open-source software and open content.
See below list of open source games:

FreeDoom is a set of open source graphics files for open source versions of the Doom engine
GNU Chess is a chess program. Xboard (a.k.a. Winboard) is an open-source front-end for it.

OpenTTD is an [...]

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