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6. Puppy Linux

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Puppy Linux

Puppy Linux Logo

Puppy Linux Is A superb, compact, super-fast and free operating system

-PuppyLinux.org

Puppy Linux is an operating system for computers. Other well-known operating systems are Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, and MS-DOS. Puppy Linux is based on GNU/Linux. It is completely free and open source software.
Puppy Linux Was Made by Barry Kaule. We Take No Credit For His Marvelous Creation.

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How is Puppy Different ?

Small size, ~100MB! This lends itself to some very useful and unique features.
'Live' booting from CDs, DVDs, USB flash drives, and other portable media.
Runs from RAM, making it unusually fast even in old PCs and in netbooks with solid state storage media.
Very low minimum system requirements.
Boot time is well under a minute, 30-40 seconds in most systems.
Includes a wide range of applications: wordprocessors, spreadsheets, internet browsers, games, image editors and many utilities. Extra software in the form of dotpets. There is a GUI Puppy Software Installer included.
Puppy is easy to use and little technical knowledge is assumed. Most hardware is automatically detected.

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Official Site :

Puppy Linux

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Download :

Puppy 4.3.0 (105MB)

Puppy 5 series (109MB)

Puppy 4 series (100MB)

Puppy 3 series (94MB)

Puppy 2 series (99MB)

Puppy 1 series (62MB)

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Installation Guide :

View Guide Puppy Linux

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5. Ubuntu

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Official Site :

Ubuntu

Linux

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Download :

Download Ubuntu (Latest) Desktop Edition

Download Ubuntu (Latest) Server Edition

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Request Free CD :

Request Free CD

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Installation Guide :

View Guide Ubuntu

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Live CD Downloads :

Linux Live CD List

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4. Mozilla firefox

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Download :

Download Firefox 3.5

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Installation Guide :

Check out the Installation Guide

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Older Products :

Download Thunder Bird

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Join the Community :

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Others :

Organic Softwares

Mozilla Store

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3. History

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Linux

Linus Trovalds

Linus Trovalds started Linux as a hobbyist project in 1990.
Trovalds a college student from Finland, began the project after purchasing a computer to run Minix, A Unix like operating system.
Within two months of starting the project, Linus released kernel 0.01.
Nearly 3 years after Trovalds started his project, Linux 1.0 was released.
By this time, many Linux distributors had started packing Linux kernel with basic support programs, the GNU utilities and compilers, the X Window System, and other useful programs.
The Linux kernel hackers managed to develop all the thing expected from a current Unix system, including preemptive multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, TCP/IP support, NFS (Network File Systems), Ethernet and lots more.
History of kernel released

14-Mar-1994 - Linux 1.0.0 was released (176,250 lines).
Mar-1995 - Linux 1.2.0 was released (310,950 lines).
25-Jan-1999 - Linux 2.2.0 was released (1,800,847 lines).
04-Jan-2001 - Linux 2.4.0 was released (3,377,902 lines).
17-Dec-2003 - Linux 2.6.0 was released (5,929,913 lines).
09-Jun-2009 - Linux 2.6.30 was released (11,637,173 lines)

Note : In July 2009 Microsoft contributed 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel. The contribution consisted of Hyper-V drivers, which improve the performance of virtual Linux guest systems in a Windows hosted environment. Microsoft licenced its Linux Hyper-V drivers under the GPL. Microsoft was forced to make the code contribution when Vyatta principal engineer and Linux contributor Stephen Hemminger discovered that Microsoft had incorporated a Hyper-V network driver, with GPL-licenced open source components, statically linked to closed-source binaries in contravention of the GPL licence. Microsoft contributed the drivers to rectify the licence violation, although the company attempted to portray it as a charitable act, rather than one to avoid legal action against it.

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Mozilla

Logos of Firefox

Mozilla was the official, public, original name of Mozilla Application Suite by the Mozilla Foundation, currently known as SeaMonkey suite.
The name has been used in a number of ways and in combination with other phrases, though all of them have been related to the now-defunct Netscape Communications Corporation and its related application software.
Naming

The project which became Firefox started as an experimental branch of the Mozilla Suite called m/b (or mozilla/browser). When sufficiently developed, binaries for public testing appeared in September 2002 under the name Phoenix.

The Phoenix name was retained until April 14, 2003 when it was changed (after a short stint as Phoenix Browser) due to trademark issues with the BIOS manufacturer, Phoenix Technologies (who produce a BIOS-based browser called Phoenix FirstWare Connect). The new name, Firebird, was met with mixed reactions, particularly as the Firebird database server already carried the name. In late April, following an apparent name change to Firebird browser for a few hours, the Mozilla Foundation issued an official statement which stated that the browser should be referred to as Mozilla Firebird (as opposed to just Firebird). Continuing pressure from the Firebird community forced another change, and on February 9, 2004 the project was renamed Mozilla Firefox (or Firefox for short).

The name, "Firefox", was chosen for its similarity to "Firebird", but also for its uniqueness in the computing industry. To ensure that no further name changes would be necessary, the Mozilla Foundation began the process of registering Firefox as a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in December 2003. This trademark process led to a delay of several months in the release of Firefox 0.8 when the foundation discovered that in the UK Firefox had already been registered as a trademark for software by The Charlton Company.The situation was resolved when the foundation was given a license to use Charlton's European trademark.

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2. The Free Software Foundation

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Before the OSS project began, the Free Software Foundation(FSF), founded to help protect and pursue the rights of free software, was already established.

Free Software Foundation Logo

According to the FSF, free software is a matter of liberty, not price. The FSF believes that the free software is the freedom for the user to run, copy, distribute, study, change, and improve software.

The FSF's main project is the GNU project started in 1984 to develop a complete unix like OS. GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix.

GNU's Mascot

Richard Stallman is the founder of FSF and GNU.

Richard Stallman

Linux is composed of the Linux Kernel and many GNU programs and utilities.

Some popular GNU tools that are used frequently are :

i. Bash
ii. CVS
iii. Ed
iv. Emacs
v. Finger
vi. GCC
vii. The Gimp
Viii. Ghostview
ix. tar
and lots more........

Due to large number of GNU tools used within linux many insist on calling Linux "GNU/Linux" or "Lingnux".

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1. Understanding Open Source Software

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Open Source Logo

The OSS (Open Source Software) is a software whose source is available to the public.

Having publicly available sources doesn't mean that there are no copyright issues, However.
In fact OSS typically is copyrighted with restrictions meant to preserve its open source status, authorship, and control.

OSS is usually developed by the mass effort of programmers all over the world. Universities, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and individual programmers develop OSS.

Some of the Open Source Softwares are as follows :

i. Unix
ii. Linux
iii. Mozilla Firefox
iv. Open Office.org
v. Abi Word
and many more .................

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Club Open Source

6. Puppy Linux

5. Ubuntu

4. Mozilla firefox

3. History

Naming

2. The Free Software Foundation

1. Understanding Open Source Software