| The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives
2008-02-07 by Jimmy Atkinson in Software "The following fifty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. In some cases you could probably write your own book on frustrations with the proprietary programs shown here. In other cases, you’ll discover that the open source alternative isn’t quite up to snuff yet. And, in other cases still, you’ll learn that some proprietary programs are real gems, but that the open source advocate can replace those gems with equally shiny objects from the open source repertoire.
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| Open Source Software (OSS) untuk Berbagai Kebutuhan [pdf-ilmukomputer]
2008-03-04 by Adam Joyo Pranoto: "Dalam berbagai kesempatan saya sering ditanya masalah open source software (OSS) yang biasa kita sebut aplikasi open source atau open source yang digunakan untuk solusi bisnis maupun pendidikan, bahkan adapula yang berkeinginan mengembangkan sebuah aplikasi yang menurut saya itu cukup dengan solusi open source. Bila dilihat dari pertimbangan efektifitas, efisiensi dan yang paling penting fungsional, aplikasi open source sejauh ini cukup bisa menjawab kebutuhan selain script terbuka yang memungkinkan kita dengan bebas mengembangkan aplikasi tanpa harus memulai dari nol dan free kita bisa dengan mudah mendapatkan dengan mendownloadnya di internet.
Banyak sekali aplikasi open source yang bisa kita gunakan baik yang berbasis desktop maupun yang berbasis web, untuk skala kecil menengah dan besar (small medium enterprise/ SME) namun pada tulisan ini difokuskan pada aplikasi berbasis web yang banyak dan sering digunakan. |
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| Instalasi Paket OpenSource di Linux [pdf ilmukomputer]
2006-09-13 by Zulkhaery: "open source, istilah yang populer akhir-akhir ini di masyarakat peminat TI. Populer karena semua paket, program atau software opensource dapat diambil dan di modifikasi kemudian di publikasi kembali tanpa takut dikenal sebagai plagiator, pembajak dan sebagainya. Walau perlu di ingat bahwa tidak semua program/paket opensource gratis. Istilah opensource sendiri merujuk ke listing atau source program yang dibuka untuk umum.
Dunia opensource sendiri berkembang melalui internet. Dan melalui internet pula ribuan program opensource dapat di ambil. Dan pada umumnya program-program opensource adalah gratis. Beberapa site penyedia link ke program opensource adalah http://sourceforge.net , http://freshmeat.net , http://rpmfind.net , dan tentunya masih sangat banyak yang lain. Silahkan di cari dengan search engine favorite anda. |
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| Switching to Linux: Linux Alternatives to Windows Apps [Part I]
2008-04-02 by Daniel: "I have now made a switch - I am a full time Ubuntu user and I love every minute of it. Ubuntu is one of the best Linux releases in my opinion, although I’ve only tried 3-4 other Linux distros. I know that hardcore Linux people may argue, but Ubuntu is the only OS that enabled my sound card and my wireless internet connection without as much as a sweat. I am all for configuring OS options, digging into the roots and so on, but I want to do this to make it look good, go faster or do some extra stuff, not to make it actually work. I now do not use any illegal software whatsoever and I’m not really missing any of them. What Windows software is there to miss that I used a lot? |
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| Review: Pidgin Flies Between Linux and Windows
2008-04-10 by Michael Hall: "We live in a cross-platform world. People work in front of their Windows PCs all day long, then go home to their Mac. Or they code at their Linux terminal then unwind with games on their Windows box. Unfortunately, for as many cross-platform people as there are, it doesn't always seem like there's a lot of software built to follow them from machine to machine. Much of the time, even when a piece of software is available for several operating systems, it doesn't ever work quite the same. Configuration options are different, keystrokes behave differently, and nothing looks quite right. "One exception is Pidgin, the Linux- and Windows-compatible, multi-network IM client built on libpurple, the open source library that started life as 'gAIM,' an AIM client for Linux users..." |
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