LaTeX is by far the best professional typesetting program which is being widely used by academicians as well as by FOSS advocates throughout the world. It is free, standard, powerful, flexible, and enjoyable to work with. But STOP! This is a geeky narration of the story. The reality is that the vast majority of the [...]
Filed under: General, Open Sourcce | Tagged: FOSS, LaTeX, Linux, LyX, Windows, Word, WYSIWYG, WYSIWYM | 1 Comment »
One of the most important aims of the Open Source movement has always been to involve the masses in the movement. Until very recently, this aim has been too much like wishful-thinking. These days, however, there are some reasons to believe that we are close to reach, at least partially, this aim. In this post, [...]
Filed under: Linux, Open Sourcce | Tagged: FOSS, Linux, Masses, Open Source, Popularization, Wine | Leave a Comment »
1. Type-setting and office – OpenOffice Is a complete Office suite package including Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Drawing, and Database applications. It is well suited to academic applications. The features of particular importance are built-in bibliography utility, possibility to export the Text files as LaTeX, BibTeX, MediaWiki, and XHtml, built-in pdf export capability, and good document [...]
Filed under: General, Open Sourcce | Tagged: FOSS, Linux, Open Source, Research, Science, University | 4 Comments »
New versions of following FOSS projects are just released. 1. TikiWiki (ver 1.9.8.1): A multilingual Wiki/CMS/Groupware 2. Texlipse (ver 1.2.0): A Latex plugin for Eclipse Java IDE 3. GanttProject (ver 2.0.5): A project management package 4. Notepad++ (ver 4.4): A powerful editor for code development and general purposes 5. KeePass (ver 1.09): A password manager [...]
Filed under: Open Sourcce | Tagged: FOSS, Open Source | Leave a Comment »
This is meant to be a reference post. You can always find this post in the left sidebar under the title “Reference Posts”. I will keep updating this post to cover as many Open Source events as possible. An RSS feed with possibility of importing the events as ICAL and VCAL is available. But, please [...]
Filed under: Linux, Open Sourcce | Tagged: Conference, Event, FOSS, Linux, Open Source | 10 Comments »
An infringement lawsuit was just filed against Red Hat and Novell. As far as I know, this is the first ever infringement lawsuit invloving Linux. This is happening just after Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) blamed FOSS community for violation of IP laws. Read the full story here.
Filed under: General | Tagged: FOSS, IP, Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Open Source, patent, Red Hat | Leave a Comment »
