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Review of open source software for desktop and server
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2. Using Open Source Software
3. If your website is on a Unix or Linux based host you've been using open source software already. 4. Some of the software I'll talk about you might implement with help of a provider. 5. Types of Software
6. Server software
7. Web/mail server software 8. Database systems 9. Web application platforms Desktop applications 10. About this review This isnotan exhaustive list of all free and open source software that is mature and usable. But it is a good review of most of the software out there that is going to be useful to nonprofit organizations.For more tools, go to: http://socialsourcecommons.org 11. There are two common, mature open source operating systems...
12. Debian 13. Ubuntu
14. Edubuntu 15. others Mandriva 16. SUSE 17. and many, many others...
18. OpenBSD 19. NetBSD 20. Darwin (Basis of Mac OS X based on FreeBSD) 21. a few others, not much used 22. Operating Systems
23. Linux and BSD are virtually ubiquitous in web hosting environments, from virtual host companies, to large enterprises (like Yahoo and Google.) 24. How to get Linux
25. You can buy a box sometimes (relatively inexpensive) in a store (may come with installation support.) 26. Download an ISO from the website of the distribution or a mirror, either directly or via bittorrent (won't come with any support except community support.) 27. Buy a CD from OSDisc, or another vendor (also won't come with support these just duplicate the CDs from the websites so they are cheap if bandwidth is an issue.) 28. 29. Server Applications
30. Mailman mailing list manager 31. Applications for internet services and systems administration
32. Server Applications
33. Included in all unix-based virtual hosting services. 34. Each component of the stack isMature 35. PHP/Perl/Python are programming languages Ruby on Rails
36. Server Applications
37. Joomla 38. Plone 39. These three have become standard. They have overlapping feature sets, and they are differently customizable. But all are very solid CMS platforms 40. Others:
41. Alfresco 42. Blogging platforms
44. Drupal 45. Joomla 46. MediaWiki 47. Project Pier 48. Moodle (Courseware) 49. phpBB 50. Server Applications: Business Processes
51. SugarCRM server-based enterprise CRM package 52. SugarCRM 53. CiviCRM 54. Desktop Software
55. Thunderbird 56. Spinoffs:
57. Camino (Mac browser) 58. Sunbird (Calendaring - not so mature) Open Office (all platforms) 59. Adium (Mac OS X) 60. GIMP 61. Firefox 62. Thunderbird 63. OpenOffice.org
64. It will read and write Microsoft Office formats (except Office Open XML). 65. It uses open standards for native document formats 66. It exports PDFs 67. OO BaseAccess (way too immature) 68. 69. OO Writer OO Calc 70. GIMP 71. What FOSS is being used in nonprofits?
72. 80% used FOSS on Windows desktops (largely Firefox) 73. Many fewer (~20%) used FOSS as a desktop operating system 74. What are the barriers to FOSS adoption
75. Lack of support 76. Lack of staff expertise 77. Lack of training 78. Resources
79. http://nosi.net/projects/primer- Updated Open Source primer written in 2007. 80. http://nosi.net- NOSI's website.