Open Source Technologies

What is Open Source?

Open-source software (OSS) is: computer software with its source code made available and licensed with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software at no cost to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open-source software is the most prominent example of open-source development and often compared to (technically defined) user-generated content or (legally defined) open-content movements.

What is Open Source?

So what does that mean? software that is collectively developed by a community of technologists with an interest in a particular application or tool and then distributed at no cost to the broader community of individuals who can find a use for it
From open stacks to open source Joe Lucia, Villanova University, February 5, 2008 http://pln.palinet.org/wiki/index.php/From_open_stacks_to_open_source

Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Office

Open Office (Windows, Linux)
http://www.openoffice.org/

Neo Office (Mac)

http://www.neooffice.org/

Open Office
Leading open-source office software suite for word processing spreadsheets presentations graphics databases Other features: Available in many languages Stores all your data in an international open standard format Read and write files from other office software packages (MS Office) You can download and use it completely free of charge for any purpose.

Neo Office
Most popular open source office application for Mac OS X. Word Processing Spreadsheet Presentation Drawing Database
Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.

Five latest open source technologies

Everyone knows about the success of Linux and Apache, but here are other open source technologies on the rise 1. Nginx For the better part of the last decade, the choice for Web server software has been pretty stable. Apache has been used on the majority of Web servers while Microsoft's IIS is used across many of the rest. Over the past few years, however, use of a third entrant, Nginx (pronounced "engine-x"), has been on the rise, thanks to the software's ability to easily handle highvolume traffic.

Five latest open source technologies

2. OpenStack The OpenStack project arrived relatively late to the cloud computing party, but it comes with one particularly indispensable feature: scalability. 3. Stig The past year has seen the dramatic growth in the use of nonrelational databases, such as Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB and countless others. Stig is designed for the unique workloads of social networking sites, its maintainers claim. It is designed to support heavily interactive and social Web applications.

Five latest open source technologies

4. Linux Mint Despite years of advocacy on the part of open source adherents, Linux has never had a strong presence on the desktop. But usually there is always one userfriendly Linux distribution to use, as an alternative to Microsoft Windows. In recent years, Canonical's Ubuntu has fulfilled this role, though the increasingly popular Linux Mint may trump Ubuntu by being even easier to use. The Linux Mint project claims its OS is now the fourth most widely used desktop OS in the world, after Windows, Apple Mac and Ubuntu.

Five latest open source technologies

5. Gluster Could Red Hat revolutionize the world of storage software in much the same way it revolutionized the market for Unix-based Oses. In October, Red Hat purchased Gluster, which, with its GlusterFS file system, makes open source software that clusters commodity SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) drives and NAS (network attached storage) systems into massively scalable pools of storage. Red Hat plans to apply the method it used to dominate the market for Linux OSes for the storage space as well.

Open Source Integrated Library Systems

Evergreen Koha Open Biblio OPALS

Other Open Source Software

Operating System Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#GNU.2FLinux Web Browser and Email Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ Firefox and Thunderbird Digital Collections Management DSpace - http://www.dspace.org/ Greenstone - http://www.greenstone.org/

Blogs and Content Management Systems

WordPress - http://wordpress.org/download/ Joomla - http://www.joomla.org/download.html Plone - http://plone.org/products/plone ModX - http://modxcms.com/ Drupal - http://drupal.org/project/drupal

(Look for add-ons to download at SourceForge.)

Open Source Public Workstations in Libraries

Open Sense http://open-sense.com/ Useful http://www2.userful.com/

Is Prince Memorial still using Userful?

Search for Open Source and Free Software

SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/ Portal:Free software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software