Last saturday, a seminar on Linux and Free Software Foundation was organised by students from our college. The session began in the afternoon and lasted for about 2 hours. The first speaker -Srikar, from VNR college gave an impressive start to the seminar. He went on to list out the main limitations of Windows Operating System (O.S) as against the USPs of Linux.Here are some of the main points from the lecture.
-Proprietary software is that which is a "private ownership" so that common man cannot excercise their access and claim to it. MS Windows falls in this category.
-Free software is that whose source code is available i.e. people have the opportunity to modify and see the actual code behind every front-end execution.This gives scope for user freedom, thus leading to higher efficiency of the software and greater levels of security.
-Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds were those instrumental in making the Free software and Linux a reality.
The talk was accompanied by a few videos shown to reinstate the fact that Linux and free software is a gainful option. There was another short-lasting talk by one Srujan from VNR.The seminar on the whole was a huge success with most of us wanting to know more about the same.
Those interested in widening knowledge and helping to spread awareness among people about the availability and advantage of free software; can submit their names to any of the volunteers-Madhu,cse3 ; Charan ece3;VishnuKanth cse 3;Rohit,ece 3;Raghu ece3.
Special thanks to the team for taking up initiative ,making things work and enlightening us.
Friday, July 11, 2008
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1 comments:
hiii tulasi
my frnd he is worried about the name
so change it as srujan
he keeps on asking me wen ever he meets
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