hai everyone. For week 2, my partner, Iqbal and I had been given a task to do some research on the topic Open Source Software. For your information, Open Source Software (OSS)refers to software that is developed, tested, or improved through public collaboration and distributed with the idea that there must be shared with other, ensuring that the software are opened to the public which also open to future collaboration. This software is free and everyone can get it easily. However, the user of this software must take the risk of using it as there are no guarantee that this software is safe and can be used with your computer. to give you more information, let ,me explain briefly about OSS.
Open Source Software (OSS) refers to software that is developed, tested, or improved through public collaboration and distributed with the idea that there must be shared with other, ensuring that the software are opened to the publi...c which also open to future collaboration.
Advantages of Open Source Software.
ü Free and capable.
ü Everybody have the right to modify the code of the software and make it suitable for their own environment.
ü New versions are released all the time because it is free and no profit is gained by programming the software.
ü Many people have access to the code, meaning that there are a large number of sources for support.
ü Free to use, free to be distributed and free to modify.
Disadvantages of Open Source Software:
Many development of software happens all the time and it is hard to search for the most up-to-date version. Not all hardware is compatible with the software. Most of them are not reliable No guarantee for updates.
this is some examples of OSS that can be use:
# Linux (see http://www.linux.org/): a computer operating system and kernel originating as a UNIX system and existing in many versions.
# GNOME (see http://www.gnome.org/): a desktop development environment providing tools for developing desktop applications (as well as its own basic desktop applications) and available for Linux and other UNIX systems.
# KDE (see http://www.kde.org/): another desktop development environment.
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