[Vnbiz] Developing Open Source Software (Linux)

Sat Feb 23 02:13:01 PST 2008

There are fewer accessory drivers for Linux than Windows. But running into a
piece of hardware that Linux can't handle is now quite rare -- usually only
the cheapest knock-offs on the market.

Some FLO software runs only on Linux. A lot, like OpenOffice, Firefox, vim
(text editor), Apache (web server)... in fact, most of the best FLO software
now runs under both Linux and Windows, some even while running one or the
other, via FLO "emulation" (eg, WINE) or virtualization (eg, VMWare)
software. As an example of the latter, Google Desktop and Picassa for Linux,
and, now, Photoshop, can be run under Linux by using Windows functions
emulated by WINE. There's a performance hit, but most PCs (desk, workstation
or laptop) which are powerful enough to run Windows Vista well now make that
performance disadvantage of current emulation and virtualization app's
virtually trivial.

OK, VietHung? Can you add any further free consultation on this topic? ;)
I've gotten run again...

Cheers,
Andi

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Tran Ba Thien <tranbathien at gmail.com>
wrote:

> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>
>
>  Dear CACC,
>
> I have some questions.
>
> Do the "FLO" software run on Windows environment or Linux environment?
> Most of input devices on laptop computer are working with windows
> environment. If we use Linux, will drivers of these devices be compatible?
>
> Thanks
> Tran Ba Thien
> tranbathien at gmail.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* AD Marshall <admarshall at gmail.com>
> *To:* vnbiz at vietlinks.net
> *Sent:* Friday, February 22, 2008 11:11 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Vnbiz] Developing Open Source Software (Linux)
>
> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> Dear CACC,
>
> In response to A Hoanh's wise advocacy of VietNam adopting "Open source"
> software (BeLow), if anyone wants some help with Free, Libre/Linux or
> [other] Open-source (FLO) software -- even if only to understand the
> differences between those 3 kinds of FLO software -- several friends and i
> have been working with FLO systems (software, users and code contributors)
> for a decade or so already, both in and outside Vietnam.
>
> Of the story of the FLO (software and global community) in VietNam
> (excluding the Internet, the core technologies of which are almost
> exclusively FLO software), Government here first became interested in the
> FLO sometime around October 2002 when MoSTs' Tran Luu Chuong gave his
> InfoDev Presentation of in Washington, DC, entitled "How VietNam Faces Open
> Source Software (OSS)". Since then, VietNam has yet to go with the FLO in
> any major way. Pirated Microsoft software is still the choice of well over
> 80% of VietNam's home and office info' systems' buyers (whether they knew it
> or not).
>
> Just a few FLO points that might be of interest:
>
>    - The VNBiz mailing list is built on FLO systems.  The gentleman who
>    originally set up and administered VNBiz' FLO
>    mailing-list-management system<http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html>,
>    anh Tin Le, is one of VietNam's earliest FLO advocates.
>    - One of the more obvious, immediate benefits of using Linux at
>    least as a desktop operating system is the enormous boost in security
>    (privacy, authentication, reliability, [exclusive] access) one gets when
>    sharing information or data files, but especially when doing so using the
>    Internet. With Linux, you can basically forget about installing and updating
>    antivirus software. Though viruses and "Free" antivirus software for Linux
>    exist, they're virtually trivial, so far. Just install a good Linux desktop
>    system for all your home/office needs, do a minor bit of re-learning for
>    office and multimedia applications (not Internet app's) and you can simply
>    laugh out loud each time a new Microsoft Windows/Office/InternetExplorer
>    virus or other threat is reported worldwide. Security, stability and privacy
>    were designed into Linux from scratch.
>    - This email and everything at or via my <control-u><!-- nÃ¸t --><http://admarshall.googlepages.com/>webpage was produced via FLO systems. A screenshot of the desktop of the
>    Ubuntu Linux PC this email was written from can be seen at
>    http://flickr.com/photos/admarshall/. (It puts Windoze desktops to
>    shame.)
>
> Have a great day and Go with the FLO!
>
> (Máº·c) AD Marshall
> *madm at vice-h0:~$* uname -a
> Linux vice-h0 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 12 05:41:34 UTC 2008 i686
> GNU/Linux
> *madm at vice-h0:~$* whereis ubuntu
> ubuntu: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic/ubuntu /usr/src/linux-
> headers-2.6.20-16/ubuntu
>
>
> 2008/2/22 Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com>:
>
> > [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
> >
> > Dear CACC,
> >
> > There is a series of discussion on VNExpress about developing
> > open-source software, i.e.,, Linux.  The following article is one in the
> > series.  It basically says that the government should not directly invest in
> > Linux but should let Linux develop by its traditional way, i.e., private
> > (non-government) volunteers.  Instead, it recommends open source education
> > in IT training at universities.  I agree with this approach.
> >
> > We should encourage more open-source education and software development
> > in Vietnam. The entire world cannot depend on one guy Microsoft and
> > open-course software appears to be the road for developing countries to
> > avoid the crush of global software monopolies.
> >
> > If you click on the following link for the article on VNExpress, at the
> > end of the article are the links to other articles in the series.
> >
> > Have a great day!
> >
> > Hoanh
> > ______________-
> >
> >
> > http://vnexpress.net/Vietnam/Ban-doc-viet/2008/02/3B9FF6BE/
> >
> >     Thá»(c) sÃ¡u, 22/2/2008, 17:36 GMT+7
> >
> > PhÃ¡t triá»ƒn nguá»"n má»Ÿ khÃ´ng cáº§n trÃ´ng chá» nhÃ  nÆ°á»›c
> >
> > TÃ´i xin nÃªu ra Ã½ kiáº¿n Ä'á»ƒ phÃ¡t triá»ƒn Linux theo Ä'Ãºng nghÄ(c)a.
> > VÃ i ngÃ y nay tÃ´i cÃ³ Ä'á» c má»™t sá»' Ã½ kiáº¿n ráº±ng nÃªn chÄƒng nhÃ
> > nÆ°á»›c tiÃªn phong má»Ÿ ra lá»™ trÃ¬nh phÃ¡t triá»ƒn cho open source.
> > RiÃªng tÃ´i nghÄ(c) khÃ´ng cáº§n pháº£i phá»(c)c táº¡p nhÆ° váºy. (Nam Nguyen)
> >
> > Tháºt ra Linux tá»± nÃ³ lÃ  má»™t pháº§n má» m khÃ´ng vÃ¬ lá»£i Ãch
> > kinh táº¿, nÃ³ Ä'Æ°á»£c lÃ m ra thá»(c) nháº¥t lÃ  miá»…n phÃ vÃ  Ä'á»ƒ
> > phá»¥c vá»¥ rá»™ng rÃ£i cho má» i ngÆ°á» i. Cho nÃªn nÃ³ nÃªn lÃ  má»™t
> > nhÃ³m lÃ m viá»‡c riÃªng láº», chá»§ yáº¿u lÃ  thá»‹nh nguyá»‡n vÃ  phi
> > chÃnh phá»§ chá»(c) khÃ´ng pháº£i lÃ  dá»±a hoÃ n toÃ n vÃ o nhÃ  nÆ°á»›c.
> > Cá»(c) nghÄ(c) xem náº¿u nhÃ  nÆ°á»›c Ä'áº§u tÆ° quÃ¡ nhiá» u nhÆ°ng mÃ  sáº£n
> > pháº(c)m Ä'áº§u ra lÃ  khÃ´ng Ä'á»"ng. Váºy thÃ¬ quÃ¡ phÃ pháº¡m. CÃ³ chÄƒng
> > nhÃ  nÆ°á»›c nÃªn há»— trá»£ vÃ  á»§ng há»™ sáº£n pháº(c)m Ä'áº§u ra. ThÃ
> > dá»¥: cÃ i Ä'áº·t vÃ  sá» dá»¥ng rá»™ng rÃ£i trong cÃ¡c cÆ¡ quan chÃnh
> > quyá» n.
> >
> > Váºy váº¥n Ä'á» á»Ÿ Ä'Ã¢y lÃ  láº¥y Ä'Ã¢u ra nguá»"n lá»±c cho Ä'á»™i
> > ngÅ(c) open source mÃ  khÃ´ng pháº£i tá»'n kinh phÃ Ä'Ã o táº¡o.Viá»‡c nÃ y
> > háº¿t sá»(c)c Ä'Æ¡n giáº£n.
> > ChÃºng ta nÃªn chÃº trá» ng vÃ o viá»‡c Ä'Ã o táº¡o trong trÆ°á» ng
> > Ä'áº¡i há» c, trong hÃ ng trÄƒm trÆ°á» ng Ä'áº¡i há» c trong nÆ°á»›c cÃ³
> > hÃ ng trÄƒm nghÃ¬n sinh viÃªn cÃ´ng nghá»‡ thÃ´ng tin vÃ  tÃ´i tin cháº¯c
> > ráº±ng Ä'Ã³ lÃ  con sá»' quÃ¡ Ä'á»§ Ä'á»ƒ phÃ¡t triá»ƒn pháº§n má» m.
> >
> > Váºy nÃªn váº¥n Ä'á» tiáº¿p theo lÃ  lÃ m cÃ¡ch nÃ o Ä'á»ƒ phÃ¡t
> > triá»ƒn nÃ³ vÃ  Ä'á»ƒ hÆ°á»›ng giá»›i IT trong nÆ°á»›c sang má»™t xu
> > hÆ°á»›ng má»›i? Pháº£i báº±ng cÃ¡ch Ä'Æ°a vÃ o giáº£ng dáº¡y rá»™ng rÃ£i
> > Linux táº¡i táº¥t cáº£ cÃ¡c ngÃ nh IT. Báº±ng cÃ¡ch nÃ y hay cÃ¡ch khÃ¡c
> > chÃºng ta hÆ°á»›ng sinh viÃªn Ä'áº¿n tÃ¬m tÃ²i vÃ  nghiÃªn cá»(c)u. Tá»« Ä'Ã³
> > táº¥t yáº¿u sáº½ cÃ³ nhiá» u forum vá» Linux má» c lÃªn vÃ  phÃ¡t triá»ƒn
> > ráº¥t nhanh.
> >
> > Nhiá» u ngÆ°á» i cho ráº±ng viá»‡c phÃ¡t triá»ƒn nÃ y lÃ  vÃ´ Ãch vÃ
> > tá»'n thá» i gian,vÃ¬ nÃ³ khÃ´ng mang láº¡i báº¥t ká»³ kháº£ nÄƒng tÃ i
> > chÃnh cho ngÆ°á» i tham gia thá»±c hiá»‡n. TÃ´i xin nÃ³i thÃªm, viá»‡c nÃ y
> > ráº¥t cÃ³ Ãch cho cÃ´ng viá»‡c IT cÅ(c)ng nhÆ° quáº£n trá»‹ IT. Nhá»¯ng
> > ngÆ°á» i Æ°u tÃº á»Ÿ má»™t sá»' forum nÆ°á»›c ngoÃ i thá»±c táº¿ Ä'Ã£
> > Ä'Æ°á»£c má» i vá» lÃ m chuyÃªn gia pháº§n má» m hay láºp trÃ¬nh vá»›i
> > má»(c)c giÃ¡ khÃ´ng pháº£i lÃ  nhá» .
> >
> > Viá»‡c khuyáº¿n khÃch cáº¡nh tranh giá»¯a cÃ¡c forum háº¿t sá»(c)c quan
> > trá» ng. Láºp nÃªn Ä'Æ°á»£c má»™t cá»™ng Ä'á»"ng vá»¯ng máº¡nh lÃ  Ä'iá» u
> > mÃ  chÃºng ta nÃªn nghÄ(c) tá»›i. TÃ´i nghÄ(c) hiá»‡n nay chÃºng ta cÅ(c)ng Ä'ang
> > cÃ³ má»™t sá»' ngÆ°á» i Æ°u tÃº vÃ  biáº¿t khÃ¡ cháº¯c vá» open source,
> > nhÆ°ng tá»«ng Ä'Ã³ lÃ  chÆ°a Ä'á»§. ChÃºng ta cÃ³ lá»£i tháº¿ vá» lá»±c
> > lÆ°á»£ng IT dá»"i dÃ o vÃ  tráº» trung. Váº¥n Ä'á» lÃ  cÃ³ táºn dá»¥ng vÃ
> > Ä'Ã o táº¡o Ä'Ãºng cÃ¡ch hay khÃ´ng.
> >
> > *Nam Nguyen*
> >
> >   --
> > Tran Dinh Hoanh, Esq., LLB, JD
> > Washington DC
> >
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