Tag: FOSS
The Linux Professional Institute: Taking FOSS Exams to the World
Evan Leibovitch is the director of community relations for the Linux Professional Institute, an organisation he helped found two decades ago “to support the...
Create Cross-platform Mobile Apps Using FOSS Tools
The mantra ‘Write once, deploy anywhere’ is the principle underlying the development of cross-platform mobile applications. Due to the high demand for mobile apps...
The Ten Best Open Source Tools for Librarians
Free and open source software (FOSS) offers excellent support to librarians. FOSS and libraries are a natural fit. Librarians often find their budgets under...
Why I Publish Only with FOSS Tools
Using FOSS tools to publish books can be fun, and is as professional as (sometimes more than) using proprietary software. Here is how I...
Disaster Management: The Role of FOSS
Climate change is gathering momentum and because of this, the world has witnessed some of the most devastating disasters recently. Tsunamis, cyclones, floods, earthquakes...
Software Freedom Can Lead to Self-Reliance, says DeepRoot Linux Founder
Abhas Abhinav, founder of the Bengaluru based DeepRoot Linux, is an entrepreneur and hacker specialising in free software and hardware. For him, free and...
FOSS and Higher Education: Made for Each Other, but not Strong...
It is such good technology, so easy to learn, promotes a sharing culture and could allow Indian techies, in particular, to get a very...
“It wasn’t love at first sight with FOSS, but the idea...
Frederick Noronha (54) is a journalist and alternative book publisher. He has also been an early supporter of FOSS in India, since the late...
The What, Why and How of the GPL
Much of the world’s most important, commercially significant software is distributed under copyright licensing terms that give recipients freedom to copy, modify and redistribute...
GNUKhata: Made-for-India Accounting Software
This article turns the spotlight on an inspiring FOSS project developed in India. GNUKhata is an accounting application that holds its own against popular...
