Difference between revisions of "Free and open-source software/External links"
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*http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox Free and open-source web browser | *http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox Free and open-source web browser | ||
*http://www.gimp.org Free and open source 2D bitmap-graphics editor | *http://www.gimp.org Free and open source 2D bitmap-graphics editor | ||
| + | *[http://sourceforge.net/docs/about SourceForge.net] - world's largest Open Source software development web site | ||
There is plenty more quality free and open-source software listed in the [[#Some major free and open source software projects|panel below]]... | There is plenty more quality free and open-source software listed in the [[#Some major free and open source software projects|panel below]]... | ||
Revision as of 02:18, 28 January 2007
Wikipedia articles
Organisations
- Free software foundation (FSF) website
- Open Source Initiative (OSI) website
Documents and articles
- FSF Free software definition
- OSI Open source definition
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar - an interesting essay on why the 'bazaar' model of open-source software development works well.
Software links
- Wikipedia list of open source software packages
- http://www.ubuntu.com Free and open-source linux-based operating system
- http://www.OpenOffice.org Free and open-source office productivity software - word processor, spreadsheer, presentation software, database etc.
- http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox Free and open-source web browser
- http://www.gimp.org Free and open source 2D bitmap-graphics editor
- SourceForge.net - world's largest Open Source software development web site
There is plenty more quality free and open-source software listed in the panel below...
Footnote
The content management software that manages this website is open source and is called MediaWiki; and the server computer that hosts it is running a version of the Linux operating system called Debian which in turn is running the Apache http server program (which runs about 60% of websites worldwide), and PHP and the MySQL database.
