Computers have become part of our daily lives. Almost every day we use our computers to do our jobs everyday. There are many alternative software (software) that we can use to work on Office work and our homes. One of them is open source software or OSS. In the Indonesian Language is referred to as open source software.
Open source software begins with the existence of the campaign to provide and use free software. In addition any software including open source software (open source) it has the source code (source code) that are free downloaded and redistributed by certain ethics and rule is adhered to. Development was done by a specific community and they will mutually exchange information to develop such software in order to get better.
Why Use Open Source Software?
Why you should use open source software? In everyday work with computers, we may often use some of the commercial software which is already well-known as Microsoft Windows as the operating system, Microsoft Office as an application of Office, Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw as applications for design and drawing, Microsoft Visio to create diagrams as an application, Microsoft Outlook to reading and receive e-mail or Microsoft Project as an application to do project management. However, did you know that the software mentioned earlier have the license price of units of up to hundreds of thousands of dollars per software? If you invest your money to buy some original software into the computer, of course you have to spend thousands of dollars to the cost of a computer. Of course You also don't want to break the law by using illegal software not?
Because that's available a wide range of open source software that can be downloaded for free and redistributed freely. In addition, because it was built by a community of mutual exchange of information throughout the world, this type of software is growing quite well.
What are the Alternative Open Source Software?
Here's some kind of open source software that can easily be found as a substitute for paid software You are expensive:
Linux
You can replace Microsoft Windows that you are using on a daily basis with the Linux operating system. The operating system that was first developed by Linus Trovald has become the best alternative to replace Microsoft Windows. Many variants and Linux distribution developed with a very nice view. For example, Ubuntu and Mandrake, Fedora is a Linux distribution that is easy enough to use by lay people though.
Open Office
One of the Office applications that are most appropriate to replace Microsoft Office is Open Office. This software is developed specifically by a big company that is of Sun Microsystem however available free of charge. In an Open Office available many applications are capable of replacing a task Microsoft Office. Even the Open Office is able to open a file that was saved with Microsoft Office formats.
GIMP
If you're happy doing the design and drawing, you can use application GIMP. You can modify Your photos and images and save it in various image file format. And this software may be for free you get as a replacement for the application Adobe Photoshop or Corel Draw that cost certainly is very expensive.
He
Microsoft Visio must be good software to create diagrams. But did you know that you can also create diagrams with software that is free and legal? The software has a name He. with this software, you can create a variety of diagrams with attractive format.
Mozilla Thunderbird
You often receive e-mail in Microsoft Outlook? You can use an alternative mail application is referred to as Mozilla Thunderbird to receive, read and send your e-mail. Besides Mozilla Thunderbird also comes with a News Reader to read a variety of the latest news.
Gantt Project
If you're a tasked project management, you certainly used to use Microsoft Project to perform this task. But you can also use an alternative free software Project Gantt that has that ability such as Microsoft Project.
All open source software mentioned above (except Linux) can be run on Microsoft Windows operating systems and Linux with different variants and its distribution. Surely you can save you from hundreds to thousands of dollars if you start using open source software. In addition to the above mentioned, there are many more open source software that you can use as an alternative to commercial software.
Free Does Not Mean Bad
Though all open source software can be acquired and distributed for free, but in terms of quality of open source software has been through a series of tests as well as commercial software. Even some large corporations also have participated in the development of this software.
Indeed if you first switch to open source software, it is likely you are unfamiliar to use it because the layout is a bit different than the usual commercial software you use. But you can start to try it out and of course you will become used to it. In addition you also will not be saddled with the cost of an expensive and could be a moral burden due to the use of commercial software that are illegal.4.5
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