A computer system comprises hardware and software components, aiming to offer a powerful computational tool. These systems play a crucial role across diverse domains, aiding us in numerous tasks. The prevalence of the internet has significantly bolstered the utilization of computers for information sharing and communication. Computer systems empower us to store, process, display, and transmit information. Even in a basic modern computer system, multiple programs are typically required to carry out various functions effectively.

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Sunday, July 12, 2015

Damn Small Linux

Damn Small Linux started as an exercise by John Andrews to fit an entire desktop computer system into a compressed 50 MB image and is basically a trimmed version of an early Knoppix build, making it perfect for smaller drives.

Within a few years, Damn Small Linux grew to one of the most popular Linus systems in the world without growing beyond that 50 MB target. Damn Small Linux is a computer system for the x 86 family of personal computers. It is free and open source software under the terms of GNU GPL and other free and open sources licenses.

Damn Small Linux can be installed to and run from the hard-disk, a USB-key, a Compact-Flash card, inside a Microsoft Windows or Linux host environment via Qemu or just about any other bootable media that can contain the required 50 MB.

Damn Small Linux sets out to include all the basic features needed in a modern desktop computer system – and then makes those features functional, fast and efficient.
Damn Small Linux

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Open source software

Open source software is software that just be distributed with source code included or easily available, such as by free download from the internet.

The obtained source code must be in the form in which a programmer would modify the program and must be complete and correctly build to the executable.

Open source began as free software built by thousands of volunteers who shared the results of their work without charging any fees.

The licenses of this software will not restrict others from distributing the code or modification against people or fields of endeavour.

Open source software is often geared toward information technology specialists, to whom the availability of source code can be a real asset.

Open source promotes the idea that when internet or computer users are given access to the source code of the software they use, the end users are empowered with the tremendous freedom to create or improve by and with their own computing tools.

Open source software is distributed at no cost. This makes sense because it reflects the reality of source code availability.
Open source software
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