58 posts tagged “opensource”

Here are some recent articles from the Free Software Magazine

• http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/burning_cds_in_gnome
• http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/comparing_linux_and_freebsd
• http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/odf_ooxml_technical_white_paper

I thought the help.ubuntu.com wiki was cool until i discovered the debian wiki.

Just take a look at these excellent XFCE wiki entries

• http://wiki.debian.org/Xfce
• http://wiki.debian.org/DebianXFCE

Asterisk, the easy way
Undertanding the basics of the Asterisk (the opensource software PBX phone system)

You love OpenOffice, but you still use another app to make drawings.

Why? Because none of the shapes you need are easily available. Until now.

Custom OO Shapes is a repository of custom shapes you can use with the open source OpenOffice.Org Draw drawing app

VLC is an open-source and cross-platform multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, Ogg, etc.) as well as DVDs, VCDs, CD audio, and various streaming protocols.

VLC is also a streaming server with transcoding capabilities (UDP unicast and multicast, HTTP, etc.) mainly designed for high-bandwidth networks.

http://www.videolan.org/

If you missed Simon Phipps at Sun Tech Day London 07 you'll want to watch this :

http://blogs.sun.com/SDNChannel/entry/spotlight_on_open_source

Sun’s Open Source Contribution: $2 Billion, Dozens of Projects

Did you know that Sun contributes more than $200 million per year of intellectual property to the open source movement, in dozens of open source projects?

The company’s historical contribution tops $2 billion. WOW!

This month on SDNtv, tune in for a four-part look at Sun’s open source strategy and take a close look at several open source projects and how you can get involved.

In this week’s episode, guest host Dan Roberts (standing in for new daddy, Mark Herring) chats with Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief open source officer.

Tune in to hear Phipps explain how open source is radically changing the computer industry.

Stay tuned next week as Phipps hosts the Open Source Java Special.

You'll hear about OpenJDK, the new open source JDK project along with Project GlassFish.

[sun tech day]

Open Source is

1. Freedom to redistribute
2. Source Code
3. Freedom to create derived works
4. Integrity or authors
5. No discrimination against persons
6. No discrimination against purpose

• A. Attribution BSD
• B. Derivatives may be licenced differently CDDL, MOZIILLA
• C. Derivatives must be shared GPL

• 800,000 open source developers
• Average experience 11
• Average age 30
• 87% of US companies use open source
• IDC says its "the most significent software trend since 80's"
• Its use is now insisted on by Brazilian and German governments
  

[Sun Tech Day 2]

The Philosophy behind Open Source
Simon Phipps
Chief Open Source Officer

Topology of society has changed from Hub & Spoke to Mesh

Structure of society has changed and the Internet is turning society into a participation mesh

Consumers becoming participants (theyworkforyou.com)

Software Developement

• Closed Room
• Open Room
• Open source is software developement in a participation society - connected capitalism.

• Freedom to create derived works
• Anyone can check code out
• Few can check it back in

• Software mashups
• Debian Ubuntu with OpenSolaris kernel - provides dtrace and ZFS to Ubuntu

• CDDL for OpenSolaris
• GPL for Java

• Collaborate
• Compete
• Contribute

[Sun Tech Day 2]

James Gosling

Web Services
Flickr API & YouTube
LinkedIn
SalesForce.com
PHP
Ruby on Rails

Web 3.0

• More people
• Stronger marketplace
• Stronger communities
• Lifestyle
• Community
• Interaction

OpenAjaxAlliance
Glassfish
NetBeans
Google Web Toolkit - compiles Java into JavaScript
Java Web Start
Mercurial

HTML is not enough
Security matters
There is more than one desktop now

"Build the future"
"You can participate"

JasperReports is a powerful open source Java reporting tool that has the ability to deliver rich content onto the screen, to the printer or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML files.

It is entirely written in Java and can be used in a variety of Java enabled applications, including J2EE or Web applications, to generate dynamic content.

Its main purpose is to help creating page oriented, ready to print documents in a simple and flexible manner.