60 posts tagged “opensource”

Oracle Enterprise Linux (and Oracle VM) is freely RE-distributable !
http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Unbreakable+Linux

Yes, it's free download but also free to re-distribute including copyrights and trademarks, see the EULA for more details.

And theres now a public yum server for OEL that offers a free and convenient way to install packages from the Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM installation media via a yum client.

Sun Solaris 10 Operating System and Sun OpenSolaris 10 Operating System

Supported on over 1000 x86 and SPARC platforms—delivers the performance, stability and security your users and customers demand. With more applications available than for any other open operating system, one OS can span your entire enterprise: the Web tier, the data warehouse, and the most demanding technical compute applications.

Solaris appears to be free of charge (subject to the Legal Requirements below) while OpenSolaris is free libre open and free of charge !

OpenSolaris Links

• http://www.opensolaris.com/get/index.jsp
• http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/specifications/
• https://oscd.sun.com/
• http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/opensolaris/get.jsp

Solaris Links

• HCL http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/ listing 800+ desktops and 2000+ notebooks
  
• HCL search page http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/search.jsp
  
• http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/10/index.jsp

Solaris Legal Requirements

The Solaris 10 code can be obtained via a free Web download, obtaining a Solaris 10 media kit through the Sun store, receiving Solaris 10 pre-installed on Sun systems, among other methods. Use of the operating system is governed by the terms of the Software License Agreement (SLA).

In order to use the Solaris 10 Operating System for perpetual commercial use, each system running the Solaris 10 OS must have an entitlement to do so. The Entitlement Document is delivered to you either with a new Sun system, from Sun Services as part of your service agreement, or via e-mail when you register your systems through the Sun Download Center.

In addition, if you install the Solaris 10 OS on additional systems, you must register those systems to receive an additional Entitlement Document.

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