At first glance, the ecosystem in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) world can seem a bit complicated. There are several ways to get software: project websites where you can download it directly, use a software management tool that your Linux distribution provides, or you may also be able to install a Linux distribution that includes everything you need right out of the box! Once you understand this ecosystem, you can find where your contributions would be most useful, and why contributing is beneficial to your organization and the FOSS community.
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Community grows for open-source enterprise apps
February 27th, 2010
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Reproduced from Cnet News by Matt Asay Companies and their affiliated communities often sit uneasily together, awkward partners at the software dance. To balance the two, companies often seek to reduce corporate control of community through open-source licensing, but this strategy may be diluted by the common requirement to require community contributors to sign contribution [...]
Announcing Project OsmocomBB: Open Source GSM Stack
February 20th, 2010
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Reproduced from LWN.net Announcing project OsmocomBB: A Free and Open Source software project to create a Free Software GSM baseband firmware. The baseband chipset is the part of a mobile phone that actually communicates directly with the GSM network. It typically includes a DSP and a microprocessor running some RTOS, drivers for the baseband chipset, the [...]
Moonlight 3.0 preview offered for rich Internet apps
February 10th, 2010
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Reproduced from Yahoo! News In a blog post this week, Novell VP Miguel de Icaza, who has been in charge of Moonlight and Mono projects, described the release as the first preview of Moonlight 3.0. Capabilities include MP4 demuxer support, although there are no codecs for it yet unless a developer builds them from source [...]
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