"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).
View or download "An Open Source Introduction: In Your Products, and In Your Office"<pending>.
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
