OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE What are reasons for business to use open source software? With the current economy difficulties, companies are trying to find areas in their businesses where they can save money. Many companies are having no choice but to let people go. Some businesses try to avoid lay-offs and instead are looking in other areas to save money. One of the areas is, of course, the IT department; software application acquisition is an area that might lead to a big money savings. Even in
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and Closed source systems. Software is identified in two forms, source and binary. Source is the form in which users write software. This is where Open and Closed source systems/software come in. While they both deal with the way systems are accessed, and the software, and the rights and restrictions of that software, they are complete opposites when it comes to what each (Open and Closed) does and protects. Open Source systems and software are those in which the software has no real restrictions
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Unit 3 Assignment 1 Choosing Port Scanning Software NT2670, James Fairchild 1. What is Port Scanning? Is a software application designed to probe a server or host for open ports. This is often used by administrators to verify security policies of their networks and by attackers to identify running services on a host with the view to compromise it. 2. What is the goal of Port Scanning? The results of a scan on a port is usually generalized into one of three categories, Open or accepted:
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refers to software whose source code, the medium in which programmers create and modify software, is freely available on the Internet; whereas, by contrast the closed source code for proprietary commercial software is usually a closely guarded secret and is not available to the public. (Crooke, 2012) Notable open source operating systems include Android and Linux. Notable Closed source OS include Apple iOS. The two major benefit of using an Open source software is that the software is distributed
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Research Paper Microsoft and FOSS 4/23/2012 IT 302 Research Paper Free Open Source Software also known as FOSS has fared pretty good since the Microsoft posted a high-level summary of 235 patents that were allegedly violated in 2006. Since this scenario happen FOSS has grown and partner up with big name companies. In an interview that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that ”We live in a world where we honor, and support the honoring of, intellectual property, FOSS patrons
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Linux Operating System Mark Stansbery POS/355 Alicia Pearlman May 5, 2012 Linux is an operating system just like Windows, and MAC OS, but more along the same lines of the UNIX operating system, because they have some of the same features. Out of the three most popular operating systems, Linux is surprisingly enough is the least popular. It is growing in popularity as more and more systems start to use it, but it still has a long way to go. The information that follows will give some of
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Operating system. 2. History of Linux. 3. Why Linux sucks ! 4. Linux vs. your OS 5. Install Fedora. 6. Contact us :-) 7. Questions ? Operating system. Details History Details Why Linux Sucks ! Details 1- It sucks because it is Free of cost. Details 2- It sucks because there is No Copyright Infringement or any other limitation on the use. Details 3- It sucks because of the GPL license. Details 4- It sucks because it makes you Smarter. Details 5- It sucks because
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The use of Linux Server in the business arena has shown new life, due to the scalability and stability of the system and the support it has for other operations as well as the stability of the system and can breathe new life to old systems that no longer are functioning properly with Window applications. Another benefit of Linux is that it is open source and gives each business has the ability to structure or tailor the code to their specific applications. Linux also is not weighted down with license
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is an open source, meaning that its source code made available and licensed with an open source license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. The other option is the closed source such as Microsoft’s Window which is software released or distributed without the corresponding source code. Generally, it means only the binaries of a computer program are distributed and the license provides no access to the program's
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Linux kernels and shells Windows and Mac computer systems have one central kernel that abstracts the hardware so the operating system can manage it. Linux is more customizable because it allows you to create your own kernel. I have been hired as an IT consultant and have been asked to write a manual on the kernel distributions of Linux. The kernel is a program that constitutes the central core of a computer operating system. It has complete control over everything that occurs in the system. The
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