Dr. Herb Brown Appalachian State University Angela Brown Wilkes Community College – Ashe Campus

 “Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.” 1  May be free 1 source:

 GNU – General Public License: most common  Most:  require inclusion of source code  allow software to be redistributed  allow software to be modified  does not require software to be free

 Most is free  May be copied  May be modified to meet your needs  May be distributed  Is legal software  Some suggest it is more secure than proprietary software  Can save you $$$$$

 Anti-virus  Operating systems   Browsers  Office Applications  Word processing  Database  Spreadsheet  Presentation  Drawing and Photo-editing  Banking  Video editing  Screen capture  … and many more …

   Probably most comprehensive  Most overwhelming   Very good Windows-based open source index  Search for it!

 Grisoft – AVG Anti-virus  Not open source but free & updated   Avast  Microsoft Security Essentials  ClamWin   “Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware”  Open source

 Linux  Many versions  KDE or Gnome GUI  Popular versions ▪ Ubuntu ▪ Fedora (Redhat) ▪ PCLinuxOS ▪ SUSE ▪ Knoppix (run from CD-ROM) 

 iTalc   Software similar to SynchronEyes and LanSchool (manage student lab computers from the teacher workstation)  FREE!!

 Clonezilla   Similar to Ghost

 Thunderbird   SeaMonkey (communication suite)   , web-browser, needs feeds, etc.

 Filezilla   Includes SFTP

 Mozilla Firefox   Opera   Safari   Yes it is for WINDOWS too!  Google Chrome 

 A GOOD PLACE TO GET A VIRUS  BitTorrent ▪  Azureus – now Vuze ▪ azureus.sourceforge.net  Limewire ▪  Gnucleus ▪

 VLC Media Player   Media Player Classic  _ html?tag=mncol;pop  Download.com – search on media player classic  sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli  Media Player Classic – Home Cinema 

 Office Applications  OpenOffice ▪ ▪ Office Plug-in for OpenOffice Formats ▪  NeoOffice ▪ ▪ Mac “improved” version of OpenOffice

 HTML syntax highlights  Windows platform 

 NotePad2:   KompoZer   WYSIWYG web page editor  Nvu   Another version of Kompozer

 PDFForge – PDFcreator    Create PDFs without expensive software  qvPDF (printer driver type)  sourceforge.net/projects/qvpdf  PDF Viewers  Adobe Acrobat (free viewer)  Foxit Reader ▪ ▪ Small, fast, feature filled reader

 The GIMP!    GIMP SHOP  GIMP with a Photoshop overlay   Paint.net 

 Inkscape  Open source vector graphics editor  Similar to illustrator 

 Audacity 

 DVD-Flick: DVD Authoring Tool   Video Capture   Virtual VCR   MediaCoder   Others

 Camstudio   Camtasia –like screen capture software  JING 

 Blender  Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.  * Image obtained from the blender.org website

 Juice  “Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere”   EasyPodcast    Podcast publication (ftp)  MP3 Tagging  Use Audacity to record for re-format audio files

 GNUCash  GnuCash is personal and small-business financial- accounting software   TurboCash 

 GanttPV   dotProject   TaskJuggler   OpenWorkbench   OpenProj   Included in StarOffice (Sun) in Europe

 MOODLE (becoming rather mainstream) 

 Google earth   NASA Whirlwind   Celestia (3-D planetarium software)   Stellarium (3-D Sky maps) 

 Games: TONS search  Miniclip.com  Agame ▪  200 card games: 

 GOOGLE  Google Docs ( ▪ Share docs ▪ Need Google account ▪ Word processing ▪ Spreadsheet ▪ Calendar (becoming very popular) ▪ Synch with most platforms ▪ Presentations ▪ MANY MORE!!

 Security Concerns?  Stability (stay away from BETA)  HOW TO TEST SOFTWARE  Use virtualization software (such as Microsoft VirtualPC) to create a virtual machine  Install software in the virtual machine  Test software in the virtual machine, problems are isolated from your host machine  VirtualPC 2007 – also FREE  Windows 7 – XP mode (VirtualPC with a WinXP install)