Open Source

Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the production and design process for various goods, products, resources and technical conclusions or advice. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is made available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create user-generated software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration.

Popular open source projects include the Apache web server, MySQL database, and Firefox web browser, as well as many others.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about, and advocate for, the benefits of open source. OSI works to build bridges among different constituencies in the open-source community.

One of the OSI's most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a nexus of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize open-source cooperation.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Open Source”

• Good and best open source software

  
  Infomotions Mini-Musings — Authority: 99
  What qualities and characteristics make for a “good” piece of open source software? And once that question is answered, then what pieces of library-related open source software can be considered “best”? I do not believe there is any single, most important characteristic of open source software that qualifies ...
  3 hours ago

• GDB 7.0.1

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 166
  The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a source-level debugger for C, C++, Java, Modula-2, and several other languages. It runs on GNU/Linux, the BSD’s, and almost every major proprietary OS. GDB can debug programs running on the same machine as itself, or it can communicate over a network or serial line with a debugging stub on ...
  4 hours ago

• dos2unix 4.1

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 166
  dos2unix includes utilities to convert text files with DOS line endings to Unix line endings and vice versa. It is an update of Benjamin Lin’s implementations. Changes: Binary files and non-regular files are automatically skipped. ISO mode has been cleaned up. The manual has been updated. Release Tags: Major ...
  4 hours ago

• BoneCP 0.6.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 166
  BoneCP is a Java JDBC connection pool implementation that is tuned for high performance by minimizing lock contention to give greater throughput for your applications. It currently beats all known connection pools, including C3P0 and DBCP, as shown on the benchmark section on the site. Changes: The ability to ...
  4 hours ago

• MySQL 5.0.89

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 166
  MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries. Changes: This release is primarily a bugfix release. Please note this is the last release of 5.0 before it exits active maintenance. ...
  4 hours ago

• BitRock Cross Platform Installer 6.2.6

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 166
  BitRock InstallBuilder allows you to create easy-to-use multiplatform installers for Linux (x86/PPC/s390/x86_64/Itanium), Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (x86/Sparc), IRIX, AIX, and HP-UX applications. The generated application installers have a native look-and-feel and no external dependencies, and can ...
  4 hours ago

• GENU CMS 2009.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 166
  GENU is a Content Management System which uses a database server (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite). It uses a template system and supports multiple languages. It features BBCode and HTML tag support, a bulletin board, a comment system with reply and editing abilities, an administration interface, headlines generation, ...
  4 hours ago

• Open Source Transport Tycoon Video Game Launches Free Beta

  
  InfoAddict — Authority: 136
  Long ago, Chris Sawyer created a little economic simulation game called Transport Tycoon, sort of a blend between Sim City and a business simulator. Transport Tycoon proved itself a minor hit at the time but has withstood the test of time as a certified classic. Chris Sawyer went on to create Rollercoaster Tycoon, ...
  4 hours ago

• A decade of Linux

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 145
  In the past ten-years, Linux has gone from being an operating system for geeks to being everyones operating system. read more
  6 hours ago

• Benedict.s Quran – Holy Quran app for Windows Mobile

  
  pocket pc software, windows mobile freeware, wm6.5 news — Authority: 517
  Quran Benedict.s Quran is a free opensource Quran app for windows mobile. Features : 1. you can bookmark pages 2. It will save the last page that you are in automatically 3. It saves the last orientation of the device 4. Both vertical and Horizontal views 5. Next, Previous buttons 6. Clear, big texts 7. Tap ...
  6 hours ago

• Audiopreview 0.6

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 166
  audiopreview is a command-line tool that plays previews of many audio file types (Ogg, MP3, etc.), video file types (AVI, MPEG, Real, etc.), and Internet streams. It can also be used as a regular command-line media file player (i.e. play the files entirely like yauap or mpc123 would). Changes: The "R" shortcut ...
  6 hours ago

• Open Source Resource – FREE Open Source Scripts and Goodies

  
  Pixel Scoop — Authority: 420
  I come across a lot of people who complain that an item they have paid a significant amount of money for turns out to be just a bit of prim work an an open source script.Now, I’m all for creators using open source scripts. I personally love them. But surely, surely, surely, as open source [...]
  7 hours ago

• XMBC media center updates to 9.11 Camelot

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 158
  XMBC is a cross-platform, open source media center for Windows, Mac, Linux, Apple TV and related platforms. The developer team of this application has released XMBC 9.11, introducing a whole new look and feel. Noteworthy changes include a revamped user interface via the new default skin “ Confluence “, DirectX ...
  8 hours ago

• httping 1.3.2

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 166
  httping is a "ping"-like tool for HTTP requests. Give it a URL and it will show how long it takes to connect, send a request, and retrieve the reply (only the headers). It can be used for monitoring or statistical purposes (measuring latency). Changes: Cookie and basic authentication support was added. Tags: ...
  8 hours ago

• 35 Google open-source projects that you probably dont know

  
  dzone.com: latest front page — Authority: 166
  Google is one of the biggest companies supporting OpenSource movement, they released more than 500 open source projects(most of them are samples showing how to use their API). In this article I will try to write about most interesting and free releases from Google, some of them might be abandoned.
  11 hours ago

• Your humble blogwatchers 2009 roundup (part 2)

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 145
  Its time for the second part of my roundup of 2009s most popular stories. This time, July to December. In IT Blogwatch , bloggers yell, "HUMBUG!" Not to mention keeping an idiot occupied... read more
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• Mozilla to release Firefox mobile browser soon

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 159
  Already there are key players, such as Opera, Safari and Windows Mobile, in the mobile browser domain. But Mozilla is planning to introduce something different via Fennec as compared to other mobile browsers. The key feature is that this open-source browser will synchronise easily with the desktop counterpart. As per ...
  14 hours ago

• 4 best open source javascript framework

  
  denbagus blog — Authority: 469
  JavaScript framework may not make you a better web design er or web developers, but it will make you more efficient. That alone should be reason enough to choose JavaScript framework, or library if you want. Unless you decide to build their own, there are many options available to developers. This is a list of 4 ...
  14 hours ago

• AWN Manager – Mac OSX like dock for Ubuntu

  
  Prakash Advani's Blog — Authority: 106
  I installed AWN Manager on Ubuntu, following the instructions here . Here is what I liked. It looks cool Can auto-hide, giving you more desktop real estate. Has cool applets like fortune which I enjoy reading and reminds me of bash days. What I didn’t like It crops up when you don’t want it to. A ...
  16 hours ago

• Fedora 12 as PV Guest vs xVM 3.4.2 (b130)

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 166
  Setup bellow might seem strange unless you will become aware of some ongoing issues with VNC-Console behavior during virt-install running on the most recent OSOL build 130. View recent threads at xen-discuss forum@opensolaris.org
  16 hours ago

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