Report on the FOSS Seminar at Culture and Science Institute
Volunteers Who Participated in this event:
- (Conceptor) Diaa Radwan
- Marwa Youssef
We Went there on Tuesday 5 – 4 – 2005 at 12:00 pm and they were waiting for us and preparing a lab to present the seminar there were some of the teaching stuff there and many students attending the seminar. They were intersted so much in FOSS and GNU/Linux and the Dean asked us to visit them again to present another seminar on big scale in order to make all the students and teaching stuff there attend the next seminar.
- Who we are and What is EGLUG.
- What is Free Software
- Free Software has to do with freedom
- Free Software has nothing to do with price
- Think of Free Speech not of Free Food
- Word Free has multiple disjoint meanings in english
- The Birth of Free Software
- About Ritchard M. Stallman
- The Four Freedoms
- GNU is not Unix
- A complete users work space programs
- All Free Software
- Unix like
- Use Existing components
- Free Software Foundation
- GNU development tools
- What is Linux
- A Unix like operating system created from scratch
- Free minix code
- About Linus Trovalds
- Released linux as an alternative to minix
- Open development process
- Anyone can contribute
- What is Linux core (Kernel)
- Perform many low level and system level functions
- Communicates with Hardware
- Developed by developers around the world
- Capable of running on tiny embedded systems (PDAs, Robots, DSL Rounters) as well as the largest mainframes
- A GNU/Linux Timeline
- Starting from 1984 till now
- What is Open Source
- Open Source and licenses
- Why Choose Open Source
- Open Source is Flexible
- Open Source is Inexpensive
- Open Source developers are motivated
- Better Security, and fewer bugs
- The Code will survive
- You can contribute
- Why Switch to Linux
- Other Reasons to use linux
- Multitasking, Multi-User operating system
- It can run powerful servers on less powerfull hardware
- It runs web servers, databases, email, print serevers, file shares ... etc
- Where does Linux run
- Embedded Systems
- Variety of CPU architectures
- Giant Mainframes & Clusters
- The Clients and Servers
- Thin Clients
- Why Linux is Secure
- Linux is process centric
- No one can change the settings of the system except one user account (Root)
- Remote Administration made easy through command line tools
- Many Governments is switching to Linux and Open source
- Notready for Linux use Open Source anyway
- Some applications that you can use under M$
- Mozilla Web Browser
- Open Office
- The GIMP
- Flight Gear
- GCC (GNU C Compiler)
- Audacity (Audio editor)
- Celestia(Real-time space simulation)
- Tux Paint
- GNU Win II
- Some applications that you can use under M$
- Get Open Source Software
- Open Source Software CD
- Get Linux (No-Commitment)
- Knoppix (Live CD of Linux)
- Phaeronix (Live CD of Linux)
- Linux Users Desktop
- Some Screen Shots that shows different desktop environments and applications
