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| − | The content management software that manages this website is open source and is called [http://wwww.MediaWiki.org MediaWiki]; and the server computer that hosts it is running a version of the Linux operating system called {{wp|Debian|Debian}} which in turn is running the {{wp|Apache_HTTP_Server|Apache web server}} ( | + | The content management software that manages this website is open source and is called [http://wwww.MediaWiki.org MediaWiki]; and the server computer that hosts it is running a version of the Linux operating system called {{wp|Debian|Debian}} which in turn is running the {{wp|Apache_HTTP_Server|Apache web server}} (that serves about 60% of websites worldwide), the scripting language {{wp|Php|PHP}}, and the {{wp|Mysql|MySQL}} database. |
Revision as of 21:45, 11 July 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
- 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, spreadsheet, 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 are many more quality free and open-source software listed in examples of free and open-source software...
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 web server (that serves about 60% of websites worldwide), the scripting language PHP , and the MySQL database.
