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Ruby 1.9.1

2010-07-29T00:57:00.000-07:00

Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.
In Ruby, everything is an object. Every bit of information and code can be given their own properties and actions. Object-oriented programming calls properties by the name instance variables and actions are known as methods. Ruby’s pure object-oriented approach is most commonly demonstrated by a bit of code which applies an action to a number.

File size:	10.76MB (11,280,088 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows (All Versions)
Languages:	en-US
License:	Open Source
Date added:	June 9, 2010
Author:	Ruby-lang.org www.ruby-lang.org

Source: Filehippo.com

FileZilla a free FTP Solution

2010-01-17T18:19:00.000-08:00

Overview

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

Features

Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following:

Easy to use
Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
IPv6 support
Available in many languages
Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
Tabbed user interface
Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
Bookmarks
Drag & drop support
Configurable transfer speed limits
Filename filters
Directory comparison
Network configuration wizard
Remote file editing
Keep-alive
HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
Logging to file
Synchronized directory browsing
Remote file search

Support is available through our forums, the wiki and the bug and feature request trackers.

Quick download links

Download FileZilla Client - All platforms

Download FileZilla Server - Windows only

Pick the client if you want to transfer files. Get the server if you want to make files available for others.

Open Source Blog

2010-01-17T18:12:00.000-08:00

The Open Source Blog is a blog guide, portal and tutorial for those creating a new blog or those wanting to improve an existing blog. Open Source Blog provides a definitive directory for all Blog Design, Blog Development, Blog Software, and Blog Solutions.
This site is a full-service Open Source Blog resource offering such extra blog content as blog links, blog articles as well as the new blog features being added regularly. Be sure to take advantage of these valuable blog resources.
This site is brought to you by the Open Source Blog specialists. Open Source Blog is an independent network of blog and e-business specialists.

Open Source Blog Software MegaMix 2.0

Download 10 of the best open source blog software packages. All available in one open source blog software megamix package.

Click to download >> opensourceblog.zip (3.8mb)

How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People

2010-01-15T23:40:00.000-08:00

While I was surfing for some content for the blog post, I came Across this Interesting video on you tube.
Here is some info about it.
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Google Tech Talks
January 25, 2007

ABSTRACT

Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful. These people can silently poison the atmosphere of a happy developer community. Come learn how to identify these people and peacefully de-fuse them before they derail your project. Told through a series of (often amusing) real-life anecdotes and experiences. Credits: Speaker:Ben Collins-Sussman, Speaker:Brian Fitzpatrick"

Here goes the video..

CNET Insider Secrets - Open Source Free Software

2010-01-15T23:30:00.000-08:00

This video explains how there are open source free software alternatives to some of the most popular commercial software. OpenOffice, Firefox, Audacity, GIMP, MediaCoder. Well worth a watch if you are unsure about the benefits of free software.

Source: http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-25813...

Android Open Source Project

2010-01-15T23:27:00.000-08:00

Android is the first free, open source, and fully customizable mobile platform. Android offers a full stack: an operating system, middleware, and key mobile applications. It also contains a rich set of APIs that allows third-party developers to develop great applications.

To get started with the source code, see Get source.

Android is not a single piece of hardware; it's a complete, end-to-end software platform that can be adapted to work on any number of hardware configurations. Everything is there, from the bootloader all the way up to the applications. And with an Android device already on the market, it has proven that it has what it takes to truly compete in the mobile arena.

Even if you're not planning to ship a mobile device any time soon, Android has a lot to offer. Interested in working on a speech-recognition library? Looking to do some research on virtual machines? Need an out-of-the-box embedded Linux solution? All of these pieces are available, right now, as part of the Android Open Source Project, along with graphics libraries, media codecs, and some of the best development tools I've ever worked with.

If you are an application developer, visit the Android SDK site.

If you are interested in developing applications for Android, visit the Android application developer site.

For general information, visit android.com.

Chromium OS & Open Source

2010-01-15T23:22:00.000-08:00

Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. http://www.chromium.org

Open Source Physics

2010-01-14T23:07:00.000-08:00

The Open Source Physics (OSP) project seeks to create and distribute curricular material for physics computation and physics education at all levels.

This website contains examples of Open Source Physics Curricular material and demonstrations of how the OSP code library is used.

Visit the OSP Developer Website for technical descriptions and source code.
Visit the Simulation in Physics Website for information about computational physics and curricular material related to An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods by Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik, and Wolfgang Christian.
Ready to use (compiled) Java archive (jar) files can be downloaded from the binary directory on this website.
Source code can also be downloaded from the download directory on this website.

Description and Motivation

The continued use of procedural languages in education is due, in part, to the lack of up-to-date curricular materials that combine science topics with an object-oriented programming framework. Although there are many resources for teaching computational physics, few are object-oriented. What is needed by the broader science education community is not another computational physics, numerical analysis, or Java programming book (although such books are essential for discipline-specific practitioners), but a synthesis of curriculum development, computational physics, computer science, and physics education that will be useful for scientists and students wishing to write their own simulations and develop their own curricular material. The Open Source Physics (OSP) project was established to meet this need. OSP is an NSF-funded curriculum development project that is developing and distributing a code library, programs, and examples of computer-based interactive curricular material.

You are free to use Open Source Physics source code or compiled programs consistent with the GNU GPL license, but please note that the narratives of books and manuals associated with OSP code are usually copyrighted by their respective authors and/or publishers. Source code for Open Source Physics programs is available from the OSP Developer website.

Support

The Open Source Physics project is supported in part by the National Science Foundation grants DUE-0126439 and DUE-0442481. These grants have helped us to write books, to provide workshops at professional meetings, and to develop Open Source Physics curricular materials for distribution on the Internet.

Davidson College has supported the Open Source Physics project in many ways, including the hosting of the Open Source Physics Web server. The Open Source Physics project would not be possible without this generous support.

For further more details: http://www.compadre.org/osp/

Solar Panel Construction 1 - Open Source Ecology

2010-01-14T23:03:00.000-08:00

AndersonThe CakePHP Blog Tutorial (2006) Open Sorce Movie

2010-01-14T22:57:00.000-08:00

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This tutorial takes you through the steps of creating a simple Blog using the CakePHP Rapid Development Framework

This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Producer: John Anderson
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: Blog; Posts; CakePHP; PHP Framework; Cake PHP Tutorials
Contact Information: CakePHP: http://www.cakephp.org Cake Software Foundation, Inc. http://www.cakefoundation.org

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Individual Files

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The Blog Tutorial	39 MB	12 MB	41 MB

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Go Open Source or Go Home

2009-12-05T06:22:00.000-08:00

What is Linux ?

2009-12-03T05:27:00.000-08:00

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I am sure if you have heard of Open Source then You must have also heard of LINUX.
Usually People know Opens Source as Linux and the other way round. But actually it is not.

Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Developed under the GNU General Public License , the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone. Click on the link below to find out more about the operating system
that is causing a revolution in the world of computers.

Linux is an operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. The kernel, at the heart of all Linux systems, is developed and released under the GNU General Public License and its source code is freely available to everyone. It is this kernel that forms the base around which a Linux operating system is developed. There are now literally hundreds of companies and organizations and an equal number of individuals that have released their own versions of operating systems based on the Linux kernel. More information on the kernel can be found at our sister site, LinuxHQ and at the official Linux Kernel Archives. The current full-featured version is 2.6 (released December 2003) and development continues.

Apart from the fact that it's freely distributed, Linux's functionality, adaptability and robustness, has made it the main alternative for proprietary Unix and Microsoft operating systems. IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other giants of the computing world have embraced Linux and support its ongoing development. Well into its second decade of existence, Linux has been adopted worldwide primarily as a server platform. Its use as a home and office desktop operating system is also on the rise. The operating system can also be incorporated directly into microchips in a process called "embedding" and is increasingly being used this way in appliances and devices.

Throughout most of the 1990's, tech pundits, largely unaware of Linux's potential, dismissed it as a computer hobbyist project, unsuitable for the general public's computing needs. Through the efforts of developers of desktop management systems such as KDE and GNOME, office suite project OpenOffice.org and the Mozilla web browser project, to name only a few, there are now a wide range of applications that run on Linux and it can be used by anyone regardless of his/her knowledge of computers. Those curious to see the capabilities of Linux can download a live CD version called Knoppix . It comes with everything you might need to carry out day-to-day tasks on the computer and it needs no installation. It will run from a CD in a computer capable of booting from the CD drive. Those choosing to continue using Linux can find a variety of versions or "distributions" of Linux that are easy to install, configure and use. Information on these products is available in our distribution section and can be found by selecting the mainstream/general public category.

source: www.linux.org

Mozilla Labs

2009-12-03T05:21:00.000-08:00

About Mozilla Labs

Mozilla Labs is a virtual lab to create, experiment, and play with new Web innovations and technologies. List of projects and how to get involved.

Laboratories are where science and creativity meet to develop, research, and explore new ideas. Mozilla Labs embraces this great tradition - a virtual lab where people come together to create, experiment, and play with new Web innovations and technologies.

Anything goes here. Crazy ideas and inspirations are encouraged as we all explore and experiment with brand new ideas in whole new ways. Mozilla Labs is about inspiring and harnessing the intelligence, wisdom, and energy of the Mozilla community; let’s imagine the future of the Web, and then let’s build it together.

All are welcome. Come play.

Interested in Labs Projects?

You can get more information about our various projects through the Projects page, and follow along with development discussion in the forums. You can also subscribe to our web feed and sign up for the about:labs newsletter.

Career Opportunities

Interested in joining our team? Please visit the Mozilla career opportunities page for more information.

Press Contact

Press inquiries should be directed to our press center page for more information.

source: mozillalabs.com

Mozilla Applications

2009-12-03T05:13:00.000-08:00

These applications are developed by the Mozilla community and their code is hosted on mozilla.org.

Bugzilla
Bugzilla™ is a bug tracking system designed to help teams manage software development. Hundreds of organizations across the globe are using this powerful tool to get organized and communicate effectively.
Camino
Camino® is a Web browser optimized for Mac OS X with a Cocoa user interface, and powerful Gecko layout engine. It's the simple, secure, and fast browser for Mac OS X.
Firefox
Firefox® is an award-winning Web browser that is fast, secure, and fully customizable to your online life. Try out the latest version for the speediest, safest and most advanced Firefox yet.
Lightning and Sunbird
Lightning is a popular calendaring, scheduling and task management extension. Sunbird® is a cross-platform application that brings Mozilla-style ease-of-use to your calendar.
SeaMonkey
SeaMonkey® is the all-in-one application formerly known as the "Mozilla Application Suite", containing a web browser, a mail and newsgroups client, an HTML editor, web development tools, and an IRC chat client.
Thunderbird
Thunderbird® is Mozilla's next generation e-mail client. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before and can also scale to meet the most sophisticated organizational needs.

source: www.mozilla.org

History of the Mozilla Project

2009-12-03T05:11:00.000-08:00

The Mozilla project was created in 1998 with the release of the Netscape browser suite source code that was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the Internet and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market. Within the first year, new community members from around the world had already contributed new functionality, enhanced existing features and became engaged in the management and planning of the project itself.

By creating an open community, the Mozilla project had become larger than any one company. Community members got involved and expanded the scope of the project's original mission—instead of just working on Netscape's next browser, people started creating a variety of browsers, development tools and a range of other projects. People contributed to Mozilla in different ways, but everyone was passionate about creating free software that would enable people to have a choice in how they experienced the Internet.

After several years of development, Mozilla 1.0, the first major version, was released in 2002. This version featured many improvements to the browser, email client and other applications included in the suite, but not many people were using it. By 2002, well over 90% of Internet users were browsing with Internet Explorer. Not many people noticed at the time, but the first version of Phoenix (later renamed to Firefox) was also released by Mozilla community members that year with the goal of providing the best possible browsing experience to the widest possible set of people.

In 2003, the Mozilla project created the Mozilla Foundation, an independent non-profit organization supported by individual donors and a variety of companies. The new Mozilla Foundation continued the role of managing the daily operations of the project and also officially took on the role of promoting openness, innovation, and opportunity on the Internet. It did this by continuing to release software, such as Firefox and Thunderbird, and expanding to new areas, such as providing grants to support accessibility improvements on the Web.

Firefox 1.0 was released in 2004 and became a big success. In less than a year, Firefox had been downloaded over 100 million times. New versions of Firefox have come out regularly since then and keep setting new records. The popularity of Firefox has helped bring choice back to users. In 2008, Firefox reached 20% worldwide market share and renewed competition has accelerated innovation and improved the Internet for everyone.

Mozilla celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2008. In ten years the community has shown that commercial companies can benefit by collaborating in open source projects and that great end user products can be produced as open source software. More people than ever before are using the Internet and are experiencing it in their own language. A sustainable organization has been created that uses market mechanisms to support a public benefit mission and this model has been reused by others to create open, transparent and collaborative organizations in a broad range of areas.

The next ten years have challenges and opportunities equal to those of our first decade. There's no guarantee that the Internet will remain open or enjoyable or safe. Mozilla will continue to provide an opportunity for people to make their voices heard and to shape their own online lives. Of course, we're not alone in doing this. The Mozilla community, as well as other open source projects and other public benefit organizations, exists only because of the people who are engaged with making our common goals a reality. If you want to join us in our mission, please get involved.

For more information about Mozilla's history, see the following:

    * Mozilla Bookmarks
    * Timeline of Mozilla Project
    * Mozilla Digital Memory Bank
    * The History of Firefox and Mozilla Posters (available in English and Japanese)
    * The History of Mozilla Presentation

The Mozilla Community

2009-12-03T04:59:00.000-08:00

www.mozilla.org was launched in 1998.All the community activities occurred on this site.

The Mozilla community produces a lot of great software. This page contains links to some of the most popular projects and also provides links to places where you can find even more.

Mozilla is a global community of people who have been working together since 1998 to create world-class open source software.

Mozilla believes that openness, innovation and participation are key to the continued health of the Internet.

OpenOffice.org 3

2009-10-31T10:03:00.000-07:00

Now we are all familiar with the Microsoft's Office application. We use MS Office for all our office needs. But my concern here is for the Open Source software. So whats there as the office in Open Source?

Well to that, as an answer to the commercial software we have Open Office.org.The Latest version of the OpenOffice.org is "OpenOffice.org 3".

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.Plus all that tasks what we can do in the Commercial Software,can also be done in this Open Source Version.

* It is also available in many languages .
* It works on almost all common computers.
*It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. i.e it is compatible with the Commercial software too.
*It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

More Updates on this post will be here. Just watch out!

Download(Latest Version for Windows)

Hello !

2009-10-31T09:53:00.000-07:00

Hello readers.. this is my first post to start this blog off the mark. Well this blog is only to promote the Open Source Software.

As my main intention to promote the Open Source Software it is also to place reviews on each such new Open Source Software available. This is an initiative to get all the readers a right platform to right information.

I am also planning to release a Open Source software DVD , an azzax collection. This DVD will be updated every month. Well this is just a small start, all the future plans would be based after analysis on the success of this Blog!

Lets Hope for the best outcome, and I will try to keep this promise to make this a successful one.