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I have been in the software development field for 20 years and running my own consulting practice - GARA Systems - for the past 11 years.
Over the past couple of years I have been actively advocating free software to my clients. Since that time I have done many installations of MySQL, OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird and more. My clients have realized thousands of dollars in savings because of the switch.
Dear all,
I would like to inform you, that OrangeHRM has just released the version 2.2.2 of their Open Source Human Resource, also known as Human Capital, Management Solution (HRM / HCM).
Being the provider of the Human Resource Information System (HR IS), OrangeHRM offers its solution free of charge under GNU GPL open source license.
Anyone that is looking for a good and FREE eCommerce application, make sure to give Magento Commerce a try (http://www.magentocommerce.com/).
A friend of mine in Norway told me about it. When I heard about an open source / free commerce application from a hardcore .NET guy, I knew there had to be something good about it.
This coming weekend I plan on setting it up and giving it a try.
Cheers!
Hello everyone, my name Khoa. I have just downloaded a software named "Open FTA" in website www.openfta.com. I read it's source code and it has many file but I don't understand what function is used to connect all of function in program. Example: after install software, I built a tree, after that I click on menu "Analysis". In this menu, it has four child menus such as : Validate, Minimal cut set, Numerical Probability, Monte Carlo Simulation. [...]
I think I'm aware of most (and I mean most, not all) events that surround FLOSS. But I don't have a magic trick for that. I just use an RSS Akregator (pun intended) and look at what's going on with the news. I use LT, FSM, Digg (just the linux/unix feed), even Netcraft's (which I think will be dumped from my feeds in a few days) and a few others. I get so many news it's hard for me to keep up with all the incoming information (I think there should be a little more "intelligence" in agregators so they can tell duplicated news... but that's out of scope). [...]
The other day I got a fantastic idea on Electrical Technology. I had envisioned a solution to problem that has challenged me from my college days. I contacted my professor and was convinced my idea was unique. This was the time I was using Kubuntu OS. I was able to better use my PC due to the fact that some one, somewhere, totally unknown to me has put in hours of work so that I and fellows like me could run my computer without burning our pockets. Without such great souls, my use of my computer would have been hampered by proprietary software.
tell you a good website.
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Hi,
today morning I log in this site and looking at my account I've noticed that karma-counter has disappeared!
OK, there is no problem, but I'd like to know where it is gone ... and why!?
Someone can help me, please?
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
I'd like to translate one or more articles from English to Italian.
That's right, I think some articles merit to be populirized.
Is it possible?
Obviously, making mention of author and linking this site.
I'm waiting for a feedback!
Thanks.
ps: sorry for my horrible english ...
I am posting this for the information of any IInet subscribers.
In case you are unaware IInet do Mirror copies of a number of Linux Distros from their FTP "Freezone". By downloading from there you are not utilising your normal download quota. The link is http://ftp.iinet.net.au/linux/
The main ones from memory are: Gentoo, Mandriva, CentOS, Debian, Gentoo-Portage, Knoppix, Kororaa, Redhat Fedora, Slackware, Suse and Ubuntu
Happy hunting... Phil
Hi,
I am missing the Issue 18 in pdf format, where do i get it? I am getting tired of looking around on the Issue 18 site without finding the download link ;)
How do you download or otherwise view the issues? There needs to be clear instructions on this...
I recently read a german book named 'Liberation of Information'. (http://die-befreiung-der-information.de) Its a small introduction to free software and its historic roots, coupled with a short description of the changes which the music/movie industry is facing and the opportunities the 'Net gives people to collaborate.
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Dear experienced Software Engineers and Developers,
I seek all your advices and suggestions to go forward in my career.
I (29) am holding a BSc (IT).
After getting my degree I joined a firm as a ASP/ SQL Programmer and continued in the same for one year. I was very successful in this position that all end users as well as my supervisors were very happy with me.
OK, so this isn't a specific group but it is promoting Free Culture and we're inviting everyone to get involved however they wish!
We've created a DVD that combines the best of Free Software with the best of Free Culture: there's movies you can watch on your stand-alone DVD player; there's music and books you can enjoy from your computer and there's an Ubuntu Live CD with all of this fantastic content on the desktop so you can enjoy it from a mostly (it is Ubuntu!) free system.
Due to the nature of free software, there exists a great deal of choice. You have 100s of distros to choose from, and a handful of desktop environments, office suites, browsers, email clients, media players... you name a piece of software and there's almost always at least one alternative. And, if there isn't, there soon will be. Is all this choice a good thing? Or is it just too confusing? Should we strive to have an ultimate tool that suits everyone's needs or do we really need 50 types of hammer and a 1000 types of nail? Let us know how you feel about choice?
In the development of free software, should we allow ourselves to emulate proprietary software or should we strive to be better and unique? Is it bad that a lot of our software does emulate pre-existing proprietary software? Do we look like we are uncreative? Does it matter? Or is a good thing to emulate proprietary software so that there are free software alternatives and so that people have a choice? How do you feel about this issue? To emulate or not to emulate... that is the question.
Our stance on this is obvious given the name of our magazine, but what is yours? Some of our authors prefer FOSS, others prefer open source, but what do you think and why? We all know the above terms can lead to confusion, but which is the least confusing. Can we sway popular opinion or should we give in to it? Is there some so far undiscovered term which will settle the disputes and make everyone go "Ah... now why didn't we think of that?"? Let us know what you think we should call it and why?
Dave Mohyla is the president and founder of dtidata.com, a hard drive recovery facility based in Tampa, Florida.
TM: Where are you based? What does your company do?
DTI Data recovery is based in South Pasadena, Florida which is a suburb of Tampa. We have been here for over 10 years. We operate a bio-metrically secured class 100 clean room where we perform hard drive recovery on all types of hard disks, from laptop hard drives to multi drive RAID systems.
Since the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Mark Shuttleworth is the founder of Thawte, the first Certification Authority to sell public SSL certificates. After selling Thawte to Verisign, Mark moved on to training as an astronaut in Russia and visiting space. Once he got back he founded Ubuntu, the leading GNU/Linux distribution. He agreed on releasing a quick interview to Free Software Magazine.
I read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
If you’ve ever spent hours at work doing mailings, cursed your printer for printing outside the lines on your labels, or moaned “There has got to be a better way to do this,” here’s the solution you’ve been looking for. Working smarter, not harder! Worldlabel.com, a manufacture of labels offers Open Office / Libre Office labels templates for downloading in ODF format which will save you time, effort, and (if you want) make really cool-looking labels
A little while ago, while talking in the #drupal mailing list, I showed my latest creation to one of the core developers there. His reaction was "Wow, I am always surprised what people use Drupal for". His surprise is somehow justified: I did create a site for a bunch of entertainers in Perth, a company set to use Drupal to take over the world with Entertainers.Biz.
Update: since writing this article, I have updated the system so that the whole booking process happens online. I will update the article accordingly!
More and more people are discovering free software. Many people only do so after weeks, or even months, of using it. I wonder, for example, how many Firefox users actually know how free Firefox really is—many of them realise that you can get it for free, but find it hard to believe that anybody can modify it and even redistribute it legally.
When the discovery is made, the first instinct is to ask: why do they do it? Programming is hard work. Even though most (if not all) programmers are driven by their higher-than-normal IQs and their amazing passion for solving problems, it’s still hard to understand why so many of them would donate so much of their time to creating something that they can’t really show off to anybody but their colleagues or geek friends.
Sure, anybody can buy laptops, and just program. No need to get a full-on lab or spend thousands of dollars in equipment. But... is that the full story?
