Open Source References

Here is a collection of resources and references used in my presentation, "An Open Source Introduction: In Your Products, and In Your Office":

 "Tux", the official mascot of the Open-Source Linux operating system kernel.  Used here by permission of Larry Ewing, who drew it with the Open Source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).






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News

The Navy's newest warship is powered by Linux
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-navys-newest-warship-is-powered-by-linux/

Captain James A. Kirk official Navy biography
http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg1000/Pages/bio1.aspx#.UncDiFQqORs

International Space Station adopts Debian Linux, drops Windows & Red Hat into airlock
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/open-source-insider/2013/05/international-space-station-adopts-debian-linux-drop-windows-red-hat-into-airlock.html

International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux, for improved reliability
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/155392-international-space-station-switches-from-windows-to-linux-for-improved-reliability

International Space Station attacked by ‘virus epidemics’
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/12/international-space-station-virus-epidemics-malware

Cisco-threatening open switch coming from Facebook, Intel, and Broadcom
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/cisco-threatening-open-switch-coming-from-facebook-intel-and-broadcom/

Open Source Advocates & Organizations

Free Software Foundation
http://www.fsf.org/

The GNU Operating System
http://www.gnu.org/

GNU's GPL License FAQ
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

GNU's list of licenses
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

GNU's "What is Copyleft?"
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html

Open Source Initiative
http://opensource.org/

Open Source Initiative FAQ
http://opensource.org/faq

Open Source Initiative's list of licenses
http://opensource.org/licenses

Red Hat Community's "Opensource.com"
http://opensource.com/

Creative Commons: Advocates for sharing of Intellectual Property, according to creators' wishes.  Provides a variety of licenses.
http://us.creativecommons.org/

Cited Open Source Applications

Stellarium
http://www.stellarium.org/

Firefox (Mozilla)
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

LibreOffice
http://www.libreoffice.org/

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
http://www.gimp.org/

Octave
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net

Cited Complete Distributions

Fedora
http://fedoraproject.org/

Ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/

OpenSUSE
http://www.opensuse.org/

Find Complete Distributions and Applications

DistroWatch: News and Information on Complete Distributions
http://distrowatch.com/

"Top Ten" Distributions on DistroWatch
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

Applications: Ubuntu Community's "best of" list
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ListOfOpenSourcePrograms

Wikipedia's FOSS Application Index (huge)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages

Another big list of FOSS applications
http://freeopensourcesoftware.org/index.php?title=Applications

The Free Software Directory
http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page