Open Source List

Posts Tagged ‘linux’

SPSS is expensive and full of nag screens. Being that I use Linux and am an open source advocate, I searched and found this alternative for my classes. While my school may have SPSS in the lab, I really don’t want to work in the lab for various reasons. After demonstrating this app to my professor, it seems there is a chance my school may switch to using it anyway. Take a look and give it a try! Find more Linux related stuff on my site at www.mattparnell.com

More here:
PSPP – A Free Opensource (GNU) Clone of the SPSS Statistics Suite

This is a demonstration of the 0.2 series of simon (0.2 beta 3 in this video). The software is developed with the main intent to provide a alternative way of interacting with the computer for people with physical disabilities. For more information visit our website at simon-listens.org or our developer blog at http You can download simon for both windows and linux on sourceforge: sourceforge.net

Read more:
Open Source Speech Recognition: simon

Google Tech Talks October 30, 2008 ABSTRACT Coreboot, formerly known as LinuxBIOS, was originally started in 1999 to complement LOBOS [2] (Linux OS Boots OS) as part of an effort to move away from inscrutible and inflexible proprietary BIOS firmware used in clusters at high-security government research labs. However, coreboot took on a life of its own and quickly overcame many obstacles thanks to the help of a friendly and knowledgable open source community. This talk will give an overview of coreboot, what it is capable of, what it is incapable of, and what makes it different from the traditional PC BIOS and EFI. We’ll focus on developments in version 3 which cleans up the development model substantially, has much improved ACPI and SMI support, usage of the Linux kernel build system to build coreboot, new ways to boot locally and over a network, do some demos, and more! Speaker: Ronald G. Minnich Ron Minnich founded the LinuxBIOS project (which is now Coreboot) when he joined the Cluster Research Team at Los Alamos Nat’l Lab in 1999. He has been working in HPC for much longer than he ever expected to, which explains the grey hairs in his beard. He has built software and HPC systems based on FPGAs, PIMs, distributed computers (co-authoring a famous C song: “I was Grid before Grid was cool”), and clusters. He has been working with Unix innards longer than some of his co-workers have been alive, which fact causes him to wonder if he should get in another line of work. Ron …

Continue reading here:
coreboot (aka LinuxBIOS): The Free/Open-Source x86 Firmware

reddit.com went open source on June 17th and the alien was asked — no, told — to put this video together to explain it. alexis ohanian (kn0thing.com) was aided by imoviehd and justin kan (justin.tv) who provided the excellent voice-acting he’s famous for.

Continue reading here:
reddit goes open source: message from the alien mascot

www.masternewmedia.org Extracted from the documentary Revolution OS. In this clip, the founders of the Open-source intitiative discuss the strategic move from the term free software to the more business like open source

See original here:
Revolution OS – The Switch From ‘Free’ To ‘Open Source’(4/5)

www.masternewmedia.org Extract from the documentary Revolution OS. In this clip, early efforts to monetize free software are discussed

Read this article:
Revolution OS – Monetizing Open Source (2/5)