Comments on: What’s your favorite open source product? http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64 A blog about free access to ideas and information Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:30:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Bryant Patten http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64/comment-page-1#comment-2318 Bryant Patten Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:30:43 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2318 Nicole - One of my current favorites is Untangle (www.untangle.com). Not only does it provide a great deal of functionality but it has several other meta- attributes that I am hoping show the future direction of many FOSS projects. These include: 1) A really visually spectacular and easy user interface. 2) A quite friendly and stable install process from their ISO image. 3) Free support via forums and an option for phone support for a subscription fee with a 'real company' answering the phone. I know for a lot of librarians the 'F-Word' refers to filtering so they might miss Untangle but they might want to give it another look since filtering is only one part of its offerings - and can easily be shut off! Nicole -
One of my current favorites is Untangle (www.untangle.com). Not only does it provide a great deal of functionality but it has several other meta- attributes that I am hoping show the future direction of many FOSS projects. These include:

1) A really visually spectacular and easy user interface.
2) A quite friendly and stable install process from their ISO image.
3) Free support via forums and an option for phone support for a subscription fee with a ‘real company’ answering the phone.

I know for a lot of librarians the ‘F-Word’ refers to filtering so they might miss Untangle but they might want to give it another look since filtering is only one part of its offerings - and can easily be shut off!

]]> By: Kitaj http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64/comment-page-1#comment-2316 Kitaj Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:12:24 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2316 Well, Debian is the biggest piece of OSS that I use. Otherwise I would add Inkscape, Scribus, eXe and ClamAV. GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/about/ http://www.gimp.org/about/COPYING Well, Debian is the biggest piece of OSS that I use.
Otherwise I would add Inkscape, Scribus, eXe and ClamAV.

GIMP:
http://www.gimp.org/about/
http://www.gimp.org/about/COPYING

]]> By: Kevin Scheib http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64/comment-page-1#comment-2315 Kevin Scheib Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:57:07 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2315 The Gimp is the GNU Image Manipulation Program and is released under the GPL which specifies that the source code be readily accessible. More information is found under the faq page http://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#Where The Gimp is the GNU Image Manipulation Program and is released under the GPL which specifies that the source code be readily accessible. More information is found under the faq page http://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#Where

]]> By: Harvey Morrell http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64/comment-page-1#comment-2307 Harvey Morrell Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:44:57 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2307 http://www.winlibre.com/en/index.php has several open source software options for those stuck in a Windows environment. Nicole: From the Gimp site: GIMP is Free Software and a part of the GNU Project. In the free software world, there is generally no distinction between users and developers. As in a friendly neighbourhood, everybody pitches in to help their neighbors. Please consider the time you give in assistance to others as payment. Sure sounds like open source to me. For those on the Mac OS X side looking for open source software: http://www.opensourcemac.org/ http://www.winlibre.com/en/index.php has several open source software options for those stuck in a Windows environment.

Nicole: From the Gimp site: GIMP is Free Software and a part of the GNU Project. In the free software world, there is generally no distinction between users and developers. As in a friendly neighbourhood, everybody pitches in to help their neighbors. Please consider the time you give in assistance to others as payment. Sure sounds like open source to me.

For those on the Mac OS X side looking for open source software:
http://www.opensourcemac.org/

]]> By: Jerry Yarnetsky http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64/comment-page-1#comment-2306 Jerry Yarnetsky Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:36:12 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2306 It is a rather indirect reference. On top it mentions that GIMP is for "GNU Image Manipulation Program" GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) is supported by the Free Software Foundation. All the Gn software is under their umbrella such as the Gnome interface for Linux. On the desktop there's always good ol' OpenOffice. On the server side, the newly release Omeka digital projects software is showing real promise. I use Textpattern for our library's website. It is a rather indirect reference. On top it mentions that GIMP is for “GNU Image Manipulation Program” GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) is supported by the Free Software Foundation. All the Gn software is under their umbrella such as the Gnome interface for Linux.

On the desktop there’s always good ol’ OpenOffice.

On the server side, the newly release Omeka digital projects software is showing real promise. I use Textpattern for our library’s website.

]]> By: Chris http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64/comment-page-1#comment-2305 Chris Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:13:18 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2305 Its free software (its a GNU project) you won't see the words open source as thats not a term free software proponents use. " Where do I get it? Most (if not all) Linux distributions will support GIMP through their package management systems and may even come with GIMP preinstalled. You can follow links to Linux and UNIX, Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X for the latest binaries. Of course, this is free software so the source code is available to, along with instruction on how to compile it." http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html <-- for what is meant by free software. Its licensed under the GPL Its free software (its a GNU project) you won’t see the words open source as thats not a term free software proponents use.

” Where do I get it?

Most (if not all) Linux distributions will support GIMP through their package management systems and may even come with GIMP preinstalled. You can follow links to Linux and UNIX, Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X for the latest binaries. Of course, this is free software so the source code is available to, along with instruction on how to compile it.”

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html <– for what is meant by free software.

Its licensed under the GPL

]]> By: Jason Puckett http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64/comment-page-1#comment-2303 Jason Puckett Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:31:05 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2303 Wow, Glen has my spectrum pretty well covered. Nicole, GIMP offers source code on its download page: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ Wow, Glen has my spectrum pretty well covered.

Nicole, GIMP offers source code on its download page: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

]]> By: Nicole C. Engard http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64/comment-page-1#comment-2301 Nicole C. Engard Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:26:33 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2301 Glen, excuse my ignorance - but I have yet to find anything on the GIMP site that says it's open source - that's the only thing stopping me from including it in my presentation. I had all the others except for Audacity! Glen, excuse my ignorance - but I have yet to find anything on the GIMP site that says it’s open source - that’s the only thing stopping me from including it in my presentation. I had all the others except for Audacity!

]]> By: Glen Horton http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64/comment-page-1#comment-2299 Glen Horton Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:05:47 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2299 On the server side I like Drupal, Greenstone, WordPress, MediaWiki, and of course the whole LAMP thing. On the the desktop, I use Ubuntu, Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, GIMP, Pidgin, VLC, and Audacity. On the server side I like Drupal, Greenstone, WordPress, MediaWiki, and of course the whole LAMP thing.

On the the desktop, I use Ubuntu, Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, GIMP, Pidgin, VLC, and Audacity.

]]> By: Nicole C. Engard http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64/comment-page-1#comment-2298 Nicole C. Engard Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:49:10 +0000 http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/64#comment-2298 You know I never even thought about blogs and wikis!! I wonder why not! Thanks :) You know I never even thought about blogs and wikis!! I wonder why not! Thanks :)

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