FOSS resources on the Internet

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FOSS resources on the Internet
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Internet limitless number of possibilities

• Exchanging information and knowledge
• Main mean for distribution of the free software
• Main mean for maintenance and upgrade of free
  software applications
• The Internet plays key role in the development of
  the free software ant its familiarity with the
  customers worldwide.

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Upgrading FOSS on the Internet

• Upgrading a complete Linux distribution
• Upgrading a complete BSD distribution
• Upgrading applications from source
• Upgrading applications from packages
• Installing patches for already installed software

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CVS

• How does the free software develop and upgrade?
• Concurrent Versions System system for
  controlling multiple different versions of the
  same software package
• It provides developers worldwide to work on a
  same project.
• The customers have direct access and snapshot of
  the very last version of the software

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Documentation on the Internet

• Support for open source software
• Tutorials and HOWTO documents
• http//www.google.com
• http//www.wikipedia.org
• Forums and mailing lists
• Web pages for bug fixes

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When should we ask for help on the Internet

• Every application has its own documentation
• Creating a global picture about the problem
• Localizing the problem
• When asking questions, please give as much as
  information about your system that you can.
• Make sure you check the latest versions of the
  software and its changelog.

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Macedonian web pages supporting open source
software

• www.slobodensoftver.org.mk
• www.linux.net.mk
• www.lugola.net
• spodeliznaenje.blogspot.com
• mailing list - http//hedona.on.net.mk/mailman/lis
  tinfo/ossm-members
• MT-News-Group
• http//mirror.on.net.mk

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Other resources on the Internet

• Links for documentation
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_d
  istributions
• http//www.linuxjournal.com
• http//tldp.org
• http//techrepublic.com
• http//www.linuxdocs.org

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Other resources on the Internet

• Links for system security
• http//insecure.org
• http//tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO/
• http//www.linuxsecurity.com
• http//netfilter.org
• Linux as a router
• http//www.lartc.org/
• http//www.zebra.org

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Other resources on the Internet

• Where can we found FOSS projects and new
  applications?
• http//freshmeat.net
• http//sourceforge.net
• http//openoffice.org
• http//www.gnome.org
• http//www.kde.org
• http//www.google.com
• http//rpm.pbone.net, http//www.rpmfind.net

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Valuable applications which you must have

• Office Applications
• OpenOffice.org - http//openoffice.org
• Kpdf - http//kpdf.kde.org
• Mozilla Firefox - http//mozilla.com/firefox
• Mozilla Thunderbird - http//mozlla.com/thunderbir
  d

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Valuable applications which you must have

• Applications for monitoring the network
• Nagios - http//www.nagios.com
• MRTG - http//www.mrtg.com
• Cacti - http//cacti.net
• Snort - http//www.snort.org
• Ethereal - http//ethereal.com
• Wireshark - http//wireshark.org

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Valuable applications which you must have

• Server-side open source software
• ApachePHPMysql
• http//www.apache.com
• http//www.php.net
• http//www.mysql.org
• Joomla http//www.joomla.org
• Drupal http//www.drupal.org
• SugarCRM http//www.sugarforge.org
• Postfix, Qpopper, Squiremail, Spamassasin, Clamav
• BIND

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What is the meaning of the Internet concerning
the free software?

• Availability of new versions, new software
  packages
• Patches are updated frequently and at a time
• New modules and interconnections between various
  applications are made every day
• One giant library

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Questions

• Why is Windows so dominant?
• Does Windows have better support and
  documentation than Linux?
• How concerned are we really about the security
  and privace of the information in our company?
• Will You try Linus?
• Is there something that you can do on Windows,
  but you cant manage to do on Linux?