Ten things you can do to help open source
If you're happy just using open source, then no problem. But if you want to contribute, because you have a problem that nobody else is fixing -- or simply because you want to do your bit in exchange -- it can be difficult to know where to start. The following suggestions might just inspire you to join in.
Then this post goes on to give some suggestions. Most important two: use OpenSource software, and note that you don't need to run Linux to use OpenSource software ... there is lots available for the Mac and that other system as well.
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... Not politically better, not feel good better, not any of that. Well, yes, that too. But for all areas where Open Source is developed, it it simply better technologically. Anybody telling you different is selling you a bill of goods.
The much anticipated Part Three of Jim Hall's exploration of OpenSource ... This is getting really interesting. This collection of posts will be the go-to source for anyone wanting to start an OpenSource project.
Are there really open source colleges?
Not really, but there are regular colleges that offer some degree of OpenSource learning.
Fox News has a very detailed review of the so-called $100 laptop, officially called the XO. The technology sounds quite impressive:
Right now I use a Windows machine if only because XP was stable when I bought the thing.
My machine is a WAMP machine as oppose to the purely open souce LAMP, the AMP being Apache, MySQL and PHP.
I also run Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox and Sunbird.
A lot of it is because I'm sick of the games being played by Microsoft.