Open Your Mind with Free Software

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Open Your Mind with Free Software

• Penelope Marr
• 2002/10/01
• Software Liberty Association of Taiwan

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Outlines

• Free Software / Open Source
• cygwin and GNU tools
• Resources
• Discussion

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Long Long Time Ago ...
Introduction

• There were Hackers
• Richard Stallman (RMS)
• Dennis Ritchie / Ken Thompson
• Robert Morris (Internet Worm)

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Free Software
Introduction

• A Matter of Freedom
• GNU Project (1984)
• GNU's Not Unix
• Emacs
• All Software You Need to Use Your Computer (Hurd
  GCC X TeX ...)
• Freedom to Share
• http//www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/

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What Else ?
Introduction

• Fun? Tech? Fame? Money?
• Linux (1991)
• BSD (1990)
• Netscape / Apache (1994)
• O'Reilly (Publishing)
• Open Source Initiative
• Slashdot (News), Freshmeat (Download)
• Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake ...
• WebTV, Open Office, Google, Government ...

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Essentials
GNU tools

• Nothing to do with Computer
• English?
• Hard Working
• Anything to do with Computer
• Networking / Shell / HTML
• Browser Lynx, Mozilla, Netscape
• Editor VIM
• Email mutt
• Programming python
• Server Samba, Apache

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Starting Points
GNU tools

• Study Area
• http//www.study-area.org/
• Book Store
• http//www.tenlong.com.tw/
• BBS
• telnet//bbs.sayya.org
• LUG
• TLUG_en, KaLUG, TNLUG ...

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cygwin
GNU tools

• Stay with Windows Environment
• Unix Interface / Look and Feel
• Provides GNU Tools
• Installation
• http//cygwin.com/
• http//zope.slat.org/Tutor/Resource/cygwin

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bash
GNU tools

• cd /etc
• ls
• vi profile (tab)
• / PS1
• PS1'\\0330\w\007\03332m\\u_at_\h
  \\03333m\w\0330m\ '

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vim
GNU tools

• vi filename
• q
• i (insert)
• ESC
• x
• q!

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apache
GNU tools

• cd /etc/apache
• vi httpd.conf
• cd /var/www
• vi index.html

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python
GNU tools

• A quite nice choice for programming tool
• http//zope.slat.org/Tutor/QPR
• http//www.python.org/
• http//www.zope.org/

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My Experience
Summary

• Reading and Trying
• A Book You Know for 20
• Try to Meet You Need in Daily Life

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Thank You

• Best Wish