72 posts tagged “free libre open”

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gobuntu

The new "Free software only" installation option in the normal Ubuntu (press F6 in the boot menu twice) basically achieves what Gobuntu is aiming for, as long as the general goal of having "clean" main and universe repositories is fulfilled (which is goal of the Ubuntu as a whole).

Given that many goals Gobuntu has are goals of Ubuntu in general also, and the fact that gNewSense is anyway doing the work that can also benefit Ubuntu (knowledge of problematic packages), the mission of Gobuntu is a bit up in the air.

Mark Shuttleworth on Rethinking Gobuntu

The "current and future" thread on this list has got me thinking. 
Perhaps we really are on the wrong track, that the only way to meet the 
needs of the gNewSense folks is to have completely different source 
packages to Ubuntu. If that is the case, then I think it would be better 
to channel the energy from Gobuntu into gNewSense.

ohloh have just introduced a new concept of open source software "stacks" which are collections of your favorite free libre open software grouped into functional collections for example for "desktop", "server", "PBX" etc.

You should be able to see the stacks I've created FSSE (server), OSDE (desktop) , VOIP & VIZZ (virtualisation)
@ http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/3283/stacks ! or read more @ http://www.ohloh.net/wiki/stack_faq

What's in your favorite ohloh "stack" ?

Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.

Ubuntu Studio provides a suite of the best open-source applications available for multimedia creation. Completely free to use, modify and redistribute. Your only limitation is your imagination !

Does anyone know how to publish their SourceForge bookmarks ? In the meantime here's a cut & paste version :

• 7-Zip  (Edit)
• Azureus  (Edit)
• BackuPod  (Edit)
• Bazaar plugin for Eclipse  (Edit)
• Big Sister  (Edit)
• Big Sister  (Edit)
• BZFlag - Multiplayer 3D Tank Game  (Edit)
• CinePaint  (Edit)
• ClamWin Free Antivirus  (Edit)
• ClamWinUpdate  (Edit)
• COD  (Edit)
• D6. Instructions for using the bookmark system on SourceForge.net  (Edit)
• DOSBox DOS Emulator  (Edit)
• EasyEclipse:Eclipse IDE distro & plug-in  (Edit)
• Eclipse and Java Video Tutorials  (Edit)
• Eclipse SQL Explorer [RCP/Plugin]  (Edit)
• Elastix  (Edit)
• Elastix  (Edit)
• Enomalism Elastic Virtualization  (Edit)
• Enomalism Virtual Server Dashboard  (Edit)
• eSvn  (Edit)
• EtherApe  (Edit)
• Files  (Edit)
• Files  (Edit)
• Files  (Edit)
• FOG - Free, Open-Source Imaging Solution  (Edit)
• FreeMind  (Edit)
• FreePBX  (Edit)
• FreePBX  (Edit)
• FreeTDS  (Edit)
• Google Sitemaps Toolbox  (Edit)
• HeidiSQL  (Edit)
• HSQL Database Engine  (Edit)
• Inkscape  (Edit)
• InstantSVC  (Edit)
• IPMI Management Utilities  (Edit)
• iSQL-Viewer  (Edit)
• Jena  (Edit)
• jTDS - SQL Server and Sybase JDBC driver  (Edit)
• LimeSurvey - THE Online Survey Software  (Edit)
• Lobo - Java Web Browser  (Edit)
• Mantis  (Edit)
• MindTouch Deki Wiki: Enterprise Wiki  (Edit)
• MindTouch Deki Wiki: Enterprise Wiki  (Edit)
• My Favorite Site  (Edit)
• nagiosgraph  (Edit)
• NetDirector  (Edit)
• Network Security Toolkit (NST)  (Edit)
• NORS  (Edit)
• Notepad++  (Edit)
• Openbravo ERP  (Edit)
• OpenNMS  (Edit)
• OpenReports  (Edit)
• OpenSMART  (Edit)
• Open Virtual Machine Tools  (Edit)
• OxygenOffice Professional - Office Suite  (Edit)
• PDFCreator  (Edit)
• PDFCreator  (Edit)
• php db2 driver  (Edit)
• PHP For Applications - PHP Framework  (Edit)
• phpLDAPadmin  (Edit)
• phpMyAdmin  (Edit)
• phpNagios  (Edit)
• PHP on Trax  (Edit)
• phpPgAdmin  (Edit)
• Pidgin  (Edit)
• Pidgin  (Edit)
• Privoxy  (Edit)
• pymon  (Edit)
• PyS60  (Edit)
• Seagull  (Edit)
• Seagull PHP Application Framework  (Edit)
• S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools  (Edit)
• SQuirreL DB Copy Plugin  (Edit)
• SQuirreL SQL Client  (Edit)
• SSL-Explorer  (Edit)
• Stellarium  (Edit)
• SVN4J - Pure Java Subversion client   (Edit)
• SVN Search  (Edit)
• SvnStat  (Edit)
• Syllable Desktop operating system  (Edit)
• the cronolog web log rotation program  (Edit)
• TkCVS  (Edit)
• Tk Toolkit  (Edit)
• trixbox (formerly asterisk@home)  (Edit)
• UFO:Alien Invasion  (Edit)
• unixODBC  (Edit)
• UnxUtils  (Edit)
• VC Aperture  (Edit)
• ViewVC (formerly known as ViewCVS)  (Edit)
• Webmin  (Edit)
• Webmin System stats  (Edit)
• WinSCP  (Edit)
• Wubi, the easiest way to Linux!  (Edit)
• XML Schema compilation  (Edit)
• Y.O.D.A. - Yaro`s Oracle Data Admin  (Edit)
• ZABBIX  (Edit)
• Zenoss Core - Enterprise IT Monitoring  (Edit)
• Zimbra Collaboration Suite  (Edit)

Open Source Software (apart from Red Hat & Ubuntu !) suffers from a massive lack of marketing ! For example I've been using Parallels Plesk and WHM/Cpanel for managing webhosting for many years without even realising there alternatives such as the lightweight LxLabs LxAdmin and the Open Source Webmin VirtualMin !

Well that changes today ! I will be giving Webmin VirtualMin a try and hope it lives up to its promises ! BUT hang on a mo ! They aren't making any "marketing" promises ! So how can they fail to live up to them ?

See also :

• Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable (Paperback)
• All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-trust World (Paperback)

or is that a lie too ?

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Seth Godin

All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-trust World

Seth Godin

Magento was designed with the notion that each eCommerce implementation has to be unique since no two businesses are alike. Magento's modular architecture puts the control back in the hands of the online merchant and places no constraints on business processes and flow.

Varien is fully invested in establishing Magento as the leading Open Source eCommerce platform. To that effect, we are committed to nurturing the growth of the Magento community, building strong and lasting partnerships and continuing to develop and improve on Magento.

The Oregon State University Open Source Lab have some interesting clients if you are looking for clip art or fonts:

• Open Clip Art Library
• Open Font Library
  

Zimbra Desktop beta is an open source next generation email and calendar application. It’s like other email clients but it incorporates the latest features and experiences popular on the web to create a totally new and more powerful tool.

Zimbra Desktop supports:

• POP & IMAP
• Google Mail &Yahoo Mail Plus
  
• Large mailboxes (>2G)
• Calendar
  
• Web Mashups !

See also:

• http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop_features.html
• http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Zimbra_Desktop
  
• 
  

Run Zimbra webmail locally:

• http://localhost:7633/zimbra/desktop/gmail.jsp
  

ZCS

• Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Open Source Edition !

WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Apple Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications.

WebKit is also used in:

• Adobe AIR
• S60WebKit is used as the rendering engine behind the Web Browser for S60.

Related Apple docs

• http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/index.html
  
• http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/OpenSource/idxInternetWeb-date.html

WebKit is an open source web content engine for browsers and other applications.

WebKit value real-world web compatibility, standards compliance, stability, performance, security, portability, usability, and relative ease of understanding and modifying the code (hackability).