Open Your Mind with Free Software

Penelope Marr<marr@slat.org>

2002/10/01Software Liberty Association of Taiwan

SLAT 2

Outlines

Free Software / Open Source

cygwin and GNU tools Resources Discussion

SLAT 3

Long Long Time Ago ... There were Hackers

Richard Stallman (RMS) Dennis Ritchie / Ken Thompson Robert Morris (Internet Worm)

Introduction

SLAT 4

Free Software A Matter of Freedom

GNU Project (1984) GNU's Not Unix Emacs All Software You Need to Use Your

Computer (Hurd + GCC + X + TeX ...) Freedom to Share http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/

Introduction

SLAT 5

What Else ? Fun? Tech? Fame? Money?

Linux (1991) *BSD (1990) Netscape / Apache (1994) O'Reilly (Publishing) Open Source Initiative Slashdot (News), Freshmeat (Download) Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake ... WebTV, Open Office, Google, Government ...

Introduction

SLAT 6

Essentials Nothing to do with Computer

English? Hard Working

Anything to do with Computer Networking / Shell / HTML Browser: Lynx, Mozilla, Netscape Editor: VIM Email: mutt Programming: python Server: Samba, Apache

GNU tools

SLAT 7

Starting Points Study Area

http://www.study-area.org/

Book Store http://www.tenlong.com.tw/

BBS telnet://bbs.sayya.org

LUG TLUG_en, KaLUG, TNLUG ...

GNU tools

SLAT 8

cygwin

Stay with Windows Environment

Unix Interface / Look and Feel Provides GNU Tools

Installation http://cygwin.com/ http://zope.slat.org/Tutor/Resource/cygwin

GNU tools

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SLAT 12

bash

cd /etc ls vi profile (tab) / PS1 PS1='\[\033]0;\w\

007\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ '

GNU tools

SLAT 13

vim

vi filename :q i (insert) ESC x :q!

GNU tools

SLAT 14

apache

cd /etc/apache vi httpd.conf cd /var/www vi index.html

GNU tools

SLAT 15

python

A quite nice choice for programming tool

http://zope.slat.org/Tutor/QPR

http://www.python.org/ http://www.zope.org/

GNU tools

SLAT 16

My Experience

Reading and Trying A Book You Know for 20% Try to Meet You Need in Daily

Life

Summary

SLAT 17

Thank You

Best Wish