14-07-2012, 12:00 PM
Open Design-Based Strategies to Enhance Appropriate Technology Development
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• Abstract:
The appropriate technology (AT) movement is being driven by inventors and innovators who are interested in designing technologies that are culturally, environmentally, and economically appropriate, and feasible to construct and use for people anywhere in the world. This paper examines how open sharing of designs, specifications, and technical information can enhance effectiveness, widespread use, and innovation of AT. This commons-based open design method has been highly successful for software development (i.e., open source), and has also begun to be used in other fields through unique partnerships and new information-sharing tools on the internet. This paper critically demonstrates key examples of open design successes that can be applied to development of AT. It also identifies potential barriers to open-sourcing AT designs, analyzes business models for open design in the context of AT, and outlines practical solutions with examples currently underway.
What is Open Source Technology?
Open Source technology can be defined as Computer Software for which the human-readable source code is made available under a copyright License (or arrangement such as the Public Domain) Open Source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge).
This permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form.
INTRODUCTION TO LINUX
LINUX is an open source / free software. With its advanced server configuration, Red Hat is putting Linux as an operating system at the core of enterprise computing. Today Linux is found in Web infrastructure, file server, ERP, and point of sale system, increasingly in the systems running critical applications at large companies. Analysts predict that by the end of this decade Linux will be a common element in the enterprise computing landscape.
Salient Features of LINUX
1. Linux is the fastest operating system in the world. It runs much faster than Windows 9X/NT. It is about 1.2 to 3 times faster than Windows 9X/NT. In command-line console mode without X-window it runs even faster (console mode is ideal for Database servers, Apache Web servers, Email servers, News servers, File servers, DNS servers, Print servers, Network Computer servers, etc..). Linux is also the most powerful yet most simple and easy to use operating system in the world.
2. Linux is the most reliable OS. Windows 9X/NT fails the CRASH_OS_TEST Programs and only Linux passes. Also commercial UNIX’s like IRIX, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO all fail the crash test and Linux is the only OS which passes the crash me test. Very often Windows 95 users will get GPF errors and the system freezes
LINUX INSTALLATION
Before Linux installation, you must really know about what is hard drive partition. For Linux installation we need to insert the installation cd of Red Hat Linux to CDROM and boot. Most of the installers give you an option between text and graphical install; you need to select “text” if your computer memory is restricted.
Linux software comes in packages. No matter what distribution or version of Linux you have, the CD contains packages that make the base operating system a rich selection of networking “clients” and “servers” with appropriate configuration and monitoring tools, some end-user text mode application, base X-window system and at least one GUI desktop.
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• Abstract:
The appropriate technology (AT) movement is being driven by inventors and innovators who are interested in designing technologies that are culturally, environmentally, and economically appropriate, and feasible to construct and use for people anywhere in the world. This paper examines how open sharing of designs, specifications, and technical information can enhance effectiveness, widespread use, and innovation of AT. This commons-based open design method has been highly successful for software development (i.e., open source), and has also begun to be used in other fields through unique partnerships and new information-sharing tools on the internet. This paper critically demonstrates key examples of open design successes that can be applied to development of AT. It also identifies potential barriers to open-sourcing AT designs, analyzes business models for open design in the context of AT, and outlines practical solutions with examples currently underway.
What is Open Source Technology?
Open Source technology can be defined as Computer Software for which the human-readable source code is made available under a copyright License (or arrangement such as the Public Domain) Open Source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge).
This permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form.
INTRODUCTION TO LINUX
LINUX is an open source / free software. With its advanced server configuration, Red Hat is putting Linux as an operating system at the core of enterprise computing. Today Linux is found in Web infrastructure, file server, ERP, and point of sale system, increasingly in the systems running critical applications at large companies. Analysts predict that by the end of this decade Linux will be a common element in the enterprise computing landscape.
Salient Features of LINUX
1. Linux is the fastest operating system in the world. It runs much faster than Windows 9X/NT. It is about 1.2 to 3 times faster than Windows 9X/NT. In command-line console mode without X-window it runs even faster (console mode is ideal for Database servers, Apache Web servers, Email servers, News servers, File servers, DNS servers, Print servers, Network Computer servers, etc..). Linux is also the most powerful yet most simple and easy to use operating system in the world.
2. Linux is the most reliable OS. Windows 9X/NT fails the CRASH_OS_TEST Programs and only Linux passes. Also commercial UNIX’s like IRIX, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO all fail the crash test and Linux is the only OS which passes the crash me test. Very often Windows 95 users will get GPF errors and the system freezes
LINUX INSTALLATION
Before Linux installation, you must really know about what is hard drive partition. For Linux installation we need to insert the installation cd of Red Hat Linux to CDROM and boot. Most of the installers give you an option between text and graphical install; you need to select “text” if your computer memory is restricted.
Linux software comes in packages. No matter what distribution or version of Linux you have, the CD contains packages that make the base operating system a rich selection of networking “clients” and “servers” with appropriate configuration and monitoring tools, some end-user text mode application, base X-window system and at least one GUI desktop.