HISTORY OPEN SOURCE

~ In 1983, Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project to write a complete operating system free from constraints on use of its source code.

~ In 1989, the first version of the GNU General Public License was published. A slightly updated version 2 was published in 1991.

~In 1989, some GNU developers formed the company Cygnus Solutions. 

~The Linux Kernel, started by Linus Torvalds, was released as freely modifiable source code in 1991.

~The BSD lawsuit was settled out of court in 1993,FreeBSD and NetBSD (both derived from  386BSD).

~KDE was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich. At the time, he was troubled by the inconsistencies in UNIX applications. 

~In 1997,Eric Raymond published The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a reflective analysis of the hacker community and free software principles. The paper received significant attention in early 1998 and was one factor in motivating Netscape Communications Corporation to release their popular  Netscape Communicator Internet suite as free software. This code is today better known as Mozila Firefox and Thunderbird. 

~In August 1999, Sun Microsystems released the StarOffice  office suite as free software under the  GNU Lesser General Public License.  The free software version was renamed OpenOfffice.org and coexists with StarOffice. 

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TYPE OF OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM

 ~Apache Web server  http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/webservers/g/bldef_apache.htm 

 ~Linux Operating System Kernel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel 

~Firefox Web Browser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox 

~Sun’s Java Programming Languange and Environment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28programming_language%29 

~MySQL Database System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL 

~FreeBSD Unix Operating System  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD 

~Sun’s OpenOffice,org Office Productity :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org 

~Wireshark Network Packet Snifferand Protocol Analyser :-       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireshark 

VARIOUS OSS WEB RESOURCE 

OSS Websites :-  http://www.oscc.org.my/

 OSS Repository  :- http://mirror.oscc.org.my

Mailing List :-  http://www.opensource.org/lists                                                                         
Forum  :- http://www.linuxforums.org/

Usenet Newsgroup :- http://www.linux.org/docs/usenet.html