Monday, June 14, 2010

LBK Post 006 Just Wondering What Open Source Has To Offer



Partial List of Open Source Software 

from Wikipedia



    This is a list of software free to be modified and distributed. For examples of software free in the monetary sense, see List of freeware.
This is a list of free and open source software packages: computer software licensed under free software licenses and open source licenses. Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open source. For more information about the philosophical background for open source software, see free software movement and Open Source Initiative. However, nearly all software meeting the Free Software Definition also meets the Open Source Definition and vice versa.

A small fraction of the software that meets either definition is listed here.
Contents


    * 1 Applied fields
          o 1.1 CAx
                + 1.1.1 Electronic design automation (EDA)
          o 1.2 Finance
          o 1.3 Integrated Library System
          o 1.4 Mathematics
          o 1.5 Computer simulation
          o 1.6 Science
                + 1.6.1 Geographic Information Systems
                + 1.6.2 Plotting
                + 1.6.3 Microscope image processing
                + 1.6.4 Molecule viewer
                + 1.6.5 Bioinformatics
                + 1.6.6 Cheminformatics
                + 1.6.7 Grid Computing
          o 1.7 Statistics
          o 1.8 Artificial Intelligence
    * 2 Assistive technology
          o 2.1 Speech (Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition)
          o 2.2 Other Assistive Technology
    * 3 Data storage and management
          o 3.1 Backup software
          o 3.2 File archivers
          o 3.3 File Systems
          o 3.4 Database management systems (including administration)
          o 3.5 Data Visualization Components
          o 3.6 Data mining
          o 3.7 Enterprise search engines
          o 3.8 ETLs (Extract Transform Load)
    * 4 Networking and Internet
          o 4.1 E-mail
          o 4.2 Instant messaging
          o 4.3 Instant messaging servers
          o 4.4 IRC Clients
          o 4.5 RSS/Atom readers/aggregators
          o 4.6 Communication-related
          o 4.7 File transfer
          o 4.8 Peer-to-peer file sharing
          o 4.9 Remote access and management
          o 4.10 Routing software
          o 4.11 Web browsers
          o 4.12 Webcam
          o 4.13 Webgrabber
          o 4.14 Web-related
          o 4.15 Portal Server
          o 4.16 Middleware
          o 4.17 Other networking programs
    * 5 Educational
          o 5.1 Educational suites
          o 5.2 Learning support
          o 5.3 Language
          o 5.4 Typing
          o 5.5 Geography
          o 5.6 Other educational programs
    * 6 File managers
    * 7 Theology
          o 7.1 Bible Study Tools
    * 8 Games
    * 9 Genealogy
    * 10 Graphical user interface
          o 10.1 Windowing system
          o 10.2 Desktop environments
          o 10.3 Window managers
    * 11 Groupware
          o 11.1 Content management systems
          o 11.2 Wiki software
    * 12 Healthcare software
    * 13 Media
          o 13.1 Multimedia codecs / containers / splitters
          o 13.2 Audio editors / audio management
          o 13.3 Graphics
          o 13.4 Image galleries
          o 13.5 Image viewers
          o 13.6 Radio
          o 13.7 Television
          o 13.8 2D animation
          o 13.9 3D animation
          o 13.10 Flash animation
          o 13.11 Video editing
          o 13.12 Video players
          o 13.13 CD-writing software
          o 13.14 Other Media packages
    * 14 Operating systems
    * 15 Password management
    * 16 Personal information managers
    * 17 Programming language support
          o 17.1 Bug Trackers
          o 17.2 Code generators
          o 17.3 Configuration Software
          o 17.4 Integrated development environments
          o 17.5 Version control systems
    * 18 Typesetting
    * 19 Screensavers
    * 20 Security
          o 20.1 Anti-virus
          o 20.2 Anti-spyware
          o 20.3 Encryption
                + 20.3.1 Disk encryption
          o 20.4 Firewall
          o 20.5 Network/Security Monitoring
          o 20.6 Secure Shell (ssh)
          o 20.7 Other security programs
    * 21 Other
    * 22 CD compilations of open-source software
    * 23 See also
          o 23.1 General Directories
    * 24 References
    * 25 External links
          o 25.1 General Directory
          o 25.2 Open source for Windows
          o 25.3 Other directories
    * 26 References

Go to This Web Page For
All The Science LINKS to the
Programs Listed Above.

LBK
 
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open_source_software_packages#Science
 

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 I was looking for an old Linux Math Program 

I Liked called SciLab

but it was Not on the "List"

But after a Quick Google, 

I Found it Here:






Scilab 5.2.2 Download: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Scilab-Download-75563.html


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Sunday, June 13, 2010

LBK Post 005 Just Standing Here, in My New SLAX


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This is Your Lucky Day:

SLAX - Your Pocket OS, 
based on Slackware.
Link: http://www.slax.org/

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LBK, out.
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Friday, June 11, 2010

LBK Post 004 Surprising Findings in Developer's Open Source Usage



Good Numbers for Open Source 
in 2010 Eclipse User Survey.


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Eclipse Workbench

Link: http://www.mobilefish.com/developer/eclipse/eclipse.html

The latest Eclipse version can be downloaded from: 
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

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From OSNews:

How To Print to Win Printer from Linux 
Without Linux Drivers


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I did the exact Same Thing with
a
Lexmark Printer.

LBK

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Monday, June 7, 2010

LBK Post 003 Native ZFS for Linux




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From: http://www.osnews.com

Logo from http://debian.piffa.net/intro/
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Native ZFS Port for Linux

Link: http://www.osnews.com/story/23416/Native_ZFS_Port_for_Linux


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A Side Blog Link about ZFS, 
OpenSolaris and dedupe



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Cracking the Envelope to See What's Inside
LBK
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Sunday, June 6, 2010

LBK Post 2: Now You're Talkin' On The Internet, eh?





A quick, personal guide to VOIP 

under Linux  
(circa 2007)
a refresher, remember the Past Is Prologue


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About Linphone 
http://www.linphone.org/

My Son's Been Checking out Linphone and
was quite jazzed by it until he found out the
client did Not have encryption.
Hmmm.

 Investigating...
LBK editor
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Saturday, June 5, 2010

LBK Post 1: Let The Chips Fall Where They May, I Say.

Well its Been Almost a Year since my Last Post, and I've Posted a Lot of Linux
Stuff on my MC2 Blog ( Link Here: http://mediacircus2.blogspot.com ). 

Maybe it's the fact that I'm teaching myself C++ in VirtualBox on my Windows 7 machine, and feel Cramped all the Time.

This Story Popped Up and I said to myself, I've Got To Give Open Source and Linux More Space.

It will start Looking A Lot Like MC2 but I will create a more Open Style that Fits Better With Linux.
Bear with Me.
LBK.
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Can't WE All Just Get Along?

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Linaro nonprofit aims to fight ARM Linux fragmentation



Chip Companies Form Company to Develop

Linux Operating System.

ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments (TI), this week announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit open source software engineering company dedicated to enhancing open source innovation for the next wave of always-connected, always-on computing.




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Kick in The Pants NEWS:

 
Like Lil Abner's Shmoo.



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10 Things Android Does Better 
Than iPhone OS

"Since its 2008 debut, Android has grown - not only meeting all of the functionalities of the iPhone, but besting it in nearly all aspects. Here is our list of the top 10 things Android does better than the iPhone.


Link:


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Still Cleaning Out The Kinks.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

How about a Detailed Tour of the Linux Kernel?

The Building Process

Trying to build all the file systems from 2.6.x is quite a challenge by itself due the span of more than 5 years which passed from 2.6.0 (December 2003) to 2.6.29 (March 2009). Luckily, kbuild, the makefile-based build system did not change that much and I had to divide the releases in two groups: 2.6.0 to 2.6.12 (older half) and 1.6.13 o 2.6.29 (newer half). For the first one I had to use the....


The rest is explained Here: