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*[http://sourceforge.net/docs/about SourceForge.net] - world's largest Open Source software development web site | *[http://sourceforge.net/docs/about SourceForge.net] - world's largest Open Source software development web site | ||
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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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian Debian] which in turn is running the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server Apache http server] program (which runs about 60% of websites worldwide), and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php PHP] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql MySQL] database. | 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian Debian] which in turn is running the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server Apache http server] program (which runs about 60% of websites worldwide), and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php PHP] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql MySQL] database. | ||
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Revision as of 05:06, 11 February 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 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 http server program (which runs about 60% of websites worldwide), and PHP and the MySQL database.
