Open source is a methodology that promotes free redistribution and access to project's design and implementation details.
The Open Source Initiative, OSI, give a full definition of what an open source projet is.
Questions tagged [opensource-projects]
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How to make tree output only directories?
150 directories I can handle but 900 files is too many for a review. I've no manual entry for tree so maybe I can ask you if you know how to output only directories since files get too detailed?
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├── agreement.htm
├── appengine_admin
│ ├──…
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“free-as-in-speech” vs. "free-as-in-beer”
What is the difference between "free-as-in-speech" and "free-as-in-beer"?
Renjith G
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Is there an open source tool to measure cpu performance?
I have used many times ab for measuring web performance, hdparm for measuring hard disk performance and netperf for measuring network performance.
But I didn't find any tools to measure cpu performance.
Do you know a tool allowing to measure cpu…
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Are Debian APT packages not officially supported or acknowledged by application developers?
I want to understand how the APT package is managed in general, considering the following situation I got into today:
I was trying to add MongoDB to my Debian machine. apt search mongodb showed good-looking results, and before attempting to install…
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OCR on Linux systems
I have always found OCR technology to be behind on open source systems. I've also watched the Ocropus project since its infancy. I've tried what I've heard is the best OCR engine available for Linux, Tesseract, and have found it woefully lacking…
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How to start changing linux source code to make custom OS?
I have heard that we can customize Linux (say Ubuntu) as we wish by changing its source code and can make whole new OS. I have downloaded source code of linux kernel from www.kernel.org website. But by seeing it, I am not able to understand…
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Where is best place to find sources of standard linux command line tools?
Into: I like learning by reading sources. But it's tiring of searching them across internet splited on many many different project sites. I'd love to see central browsable repo with sources of many many apps in one place.
When someone want to find…
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How do free software companies make money?
How do companies that provide free (as in beer) software make money? I'm thinking of things like Linux distros, as some even provide free overseas shipping!
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What makes Ubuntu not totally Free Software?
I heard that Ubuntu is not completely free (as in Freedom). What are the specific parts of Ubuntu that are not Free?
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Linux as a complete development platform?
I want to make my Fedora Linux capable of following :
Use Linux for complete development platform without requiring any other OS installation but still able to build and test programs under different platforms.
Completely replace Windows machine…
Xinus
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Learn Linux System Programming by doing projects
I have only a very basic idea about linux system programming. I have not done any real projects using linux system programming. In my current company I do system admin type work, but I am more interested in Linux System Programming. I want to do…
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Source code of original Netscape Navigator
Where is it possible to download the source code of the first open source browser Netscape Navigator released in about 1998?
I already searched for it and wasn't able to find the original version of this browser from 1998.
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What is the 't' folder?
I'm mainly a Windows guy, programming C#, but I often do use technologies that were intended for Linux machines like git, MySQL, perl scripts, memcached, php, etc... And therefore I am exposed to these tools.
I like looking at the code base of these…
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Can a Linux distro be closed source?
According to the GPL licence, which is the one used by the Linux kernel, every modification in the source must be open source too. But, for example, if I create a new OS based on Linux, I develop my own Desktop system and all that stuff, but I don't…
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100% open source linux distro
Do 100% open source linux distro's exist? i.e. distros which contain absolutely no closed source components anywhere at all? Apparently distros like Ubuntu contains bits and pieces which are closed source.
Please note, I am not asking for 100%…
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