Social Acceptability of Open Source Software by Example of the Ubuntu Operating System

2015 ◽  
pp. 561-579
Author(s):  
Mateusz Szołtysik
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Wide Availability

The modern development of information technology, and what is connected with it—technological progress and also the wide availability of hardware—make the Open Source software a necessary part of life today. Alternative operating systems with equal functionality are often exceedingly available. These systems often allow one to use a computer freely and are fully suitable for household use. The first part of the chapter includes explanation of acceptance issues and presentation of the most popular acceptance models. The second part contains a description of creating this study and analysis of its results.

Social Acceptability of Open Source Software by Example of the Ubuntu Operating System

2014 ◽  
pp. 158-176
Author(s):  
Mateusz Szołtysik
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Wide Availability

The modern development of information technology, and what is connected with it—technological progress and also the wide availability of hardware—make the Open Source software a necessary part of life today. Alternative operating systems with equal functionality are often exceedingly available. These systems often allow one to use a computer freely and are fully suitable for household use. The first part of the chapter includes explanation of acceptance issues and presentation of the most popular acceptance models. The second part contains a description of creating this study and analysis of its results.

scholarly journals Analisis Komparatif Sumber Tebuka (Open Source) Sistem Manajemen Perpustakaan Terpadu Antara Koha dan Newgenlib

Pustakaloka ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Setiawan Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Management System ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Library Management ◽  
Library Management System ◽  
Is Evaluation

Abstrak            Perkembangan Teknologi Informasi informasi yang semakin pesat berdampak kepada berkembangnya perangkat lunak dengan sumber terbuka  Open Source Software (OSS) seperti  LINUX (yang lebih kepada Sistem operasinya), MySQL (basis data) PHP, Perl, Pyton (bahasa pemograman). OSS yang telah dikembangkan seperti Koha dan NewGenLib merupakan suatu tawaran yang menarik bagi perpustakaan untuk mengembangkan sistem pengelolaan di perpustakaan.            Penelitian  ini memberikan analisis rinci mengenai perbandingan dari kedua jenis perangkat lunak, yaitu Koha (3.2.4) dan NewGenLib (3,0), sebagaimana yang akan dilakukan dalam penelitian ini. Metodologi yang digunakan untuk penelitian ini adalah "metode Evaluasi"            Hasil dari Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari sistem pengelolaan perpustakaan terpadu sumber terbuka (Open Source), yaitu Koha dan NewGenLib, untuk menginformasikan kepada pustakawan tentang pertimbangan apa yang harus dibuat ketika memilih sumber terbuka untuk sistem manajemen perpustakaan terpadu.                                                            AbstractDevelopment of Information Technology Information that increasingly rapidly affect the development of software with open source Open Source Software (OSS) such as LINUX (more to the operating system), MySQL (database) PHP, Perl, Pyton (programming language). Developed OSS such as Koha and NewGenLib are an attractive offer for libraries to develop library management systems.This study provides a detailed analysis of the comparison of the two types of software, ie Koha (3.2.4) and NewGenLib (3.0), as will be done in this study. The methodology used for this study is "Evaluation method"The results of this study aim to study open source integrated library management system (Open Source), that is Koha and NewGenLib, to inform the librarian about what considerations should be made when selecting open source for integrated library management system.

Open Source Software Use in Local Governments

2009 ◽  
pp. 516-534
Author(s):  
Sean M. Bossinger
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Large City ◽  
City Government ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Small Municipality

Free, libre, or open source software (FLOSS) offers the promise of cost-free, modifiable, high-quality software, for a multitude of tasks (e.g. desktop operating systems, office suite applications, graphics manipulation packages, etc.). Given that this software is free in terms of cost and ability to modify, we should see its widespread use throughout public administrations whose limited budgets generally give rise to the need to find ways to cut costs wherever possible, while simultaneously providing ever expanding ranges of services to their constituencies. However, we find open source software’s use at the desktop and application level rather sparse. We look at 3 specific cases of open source software use: one for provision of local e-government services, a case where a small municipality has applied open source software within a desktop environment, and a case where a large city government has embarked on the wholesale replacement of the operating system and office application suite of an entire city’s implementation of desktop workstations.

scholarly journals Package Network Model: A Way to Capture Holistic Structural Features of Open-Source Operating Systems

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Jing Wang ◽  
Kedi Zhang ◽  
Xiaoli Sun ◽  
Yusong Tan ◽  
Qingbo Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Network Model ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
System Software ◽  
Structure Evaluation

Open-source software has become a powerful engine for the development of the software industry. Its production mode, which is based on large-scale group collaboration, allows for the rapid and continuous evolution of open-source software on demand. As an important branch of open-source software, open-source operating systems are commonly used in modern service industries such as finance, logistics, education, medical care, e-commerce and tourism, etc. The reliability of these systems is increasingly valued. However, a self-organizing and loosely coupled development approach complicates the structural analysis of open-source operating system software. Traditional methods focus on analysis at the local level. There is a lack of research on the relationship between internal attributes and external overall characteristics. Consequently, conventional methods are difficult to adapt to complex software systems, especially the structural analysis of open-source operating system software. It is therefore of great significance to capture the holistic structure and behavior of the software system. Complex network theory, which is adequate for this task, can make up for the deficiency of traditional software structure evaluation methods that focus only on local structure. In this paper, we propose a package network model, which is a directed graph structure, to describe the dependency of open-source operating system software packages. Based on the Ubuntu Kylin Linux Operating system, we construct a software package dependency network of each distributed version and analyze the structural evolution through the dimensions of scale, density, connectivity, cohesion, and heterogeneity of each network.

scholarly journals Options for putting CDS/ISIS databases on the internet

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Buxton
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Content Type

PurposeTo review the variety of software solutions available for putting CDS/ISIS databases on the internet. To help anyone considering which route to take.Design/methodology/approachBriefly describes the characteristics, history, origin and availability of each package. Identifies the type of skills required to implement the package and the kind of application it is suited to. Covers CDS/ISIS Unix version, JavaISIS, IsisWWW, WWWISIS Versions 3 and 5, Genisis, IAH, WWW‐ISIS, and OpenIsis.FindingsThere is no obvious single “best” solution. Several are free but may require more investment in acquiring the skills to install and configure them. The choice will depend on the user's experience with CDS/ISIS formatting language, HTML, programming languages, operating systems, open source software, and so on.Originality/valueThere is detailed documentation available for most of these packages, but little previous guidance to help potential users to distinguish and choose between them.

Establishing Ethos on Proprietary and Open Source Software Websites

2014 ◽  
pp. 915-935
Author(s):  
Kevin Brock
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Image Manipulation ◽  
Public Acceptance ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Tremendous Amount ◽  
Rhetorical Appeals

The increasing prominence and variety of open source software (OSS) threaten to upset conventional approaches to software development and marketing. While a tremendous amount of scholarship has been published on the differences between proprietary and OSS development, little has been discussed regarding the effect of rhetorical appeals used to promote either type of software. This chapter offers just such an examination, focusing its scrutiny on the websites for three pairs of competitors (operating system, Web browser, and image manipulation program). The means by which the OSS websites promote their programs provide a significant set of insights into the potential trajectory of OSS development and its widespread public acceptance, in terms of both its initial philosophy and its perceived alternative nature to traditional software products and models.

Open Source Software Adaptation in Africa

2017 ◽  
pp. 1708-1722
Author(s):  
Abubakar Diwani Bakar ◽  
Abu Bakar Md. Sultan ◽  
Hazura Zulzalil ◽  
Jamilah Din
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Global Network ◽  
African Continent ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Software Adaptation ◽  
Proprietary Software ◽  
Wide Availability ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Software Practitioners

The African continent has long benefited from adopting OSS in its private and public organizations that have changed their way of development, the use and how to acquire proprietary software. This frequency of adaptation does not appear to be in balance with the contribution to the OSS community. Using views from experienced software practitioners working in different organizations across two African countries it has been observed that neglected infrastructure, a wide availability of proprietary software and misconceptions of a clear meaning of Open Source Software across Africa have been an obstacle towards the participation in the OSS technology in the global network.

Open Source

2019 ◽  
pp. 1067-1075
Author(s):  
Heidi Lee Schnackenberg
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Free Software ◽  
Free Products

The phrase “open source” is not something often heard in everyday conversation. However, the idea of downloadable, free software, particularly mobile applications, or “apps,” has become quite commonplace. Individuals often download free products, grateful that they are available and will potentially work well, without thinking where they originate or why they even exist. Not so long ago, most things associated with computers available to the general population came at a cost and were available from only a few vendors. This is no longer the case thanks to the ever-increasing availability and popularity of open source software, operating systems, and applications.

Open Source Software Usage in Education and Research

2019 ◽  
pp. 331-345
Author(s):  
Samih M. Jammoul ◽  
Vladimir V. Syuzev ◽  
Ark M. Andreev
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Engineering Majors ◽  
Network Traffic Analysis ◽  
Pros And Cons

Information technology and telecommunication is considered a new and quickly evolving branch of science. New technologies and services in IT and telecommunications impose successive changes and updates on related engineering majors, especially in practical qualification that includes using software facilities. This chapter aims to join the efforts to spread the use of open source software in academic education. The chapter consists of two main sections. The first presents the trend of using open source software in higher education and discusses pros and cons of using open source software in engineering education. The second section presents network traffic analysis as an example of recent effective research topics and provides a set of open source tools to perform the research's practical steps. The research example with the suggested tools is valid as practical lab work for telecommunication and IT-related majors.

A Classification Analysis of the Success of Open Source Health Information Technology Projects

2011 ◽  
pp. 256-273
Author(s):  
Evangelos Katsamakas ◽  
Balaji Janamanchi ◽  
Wullianallur Raghupathi ◽  
Wei Gao
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Health Information Technology ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Information Technology Projects ◽  
Development Status ◽  
Future Research Directions

As the number of open source software (OSS) projects in healthcare grows rapidly, researchers are faced with the challenge of understanding and explaining the success of the open source phenomenon. This article proposes a research framework that examines the roles of project sponsorship, license type, development status and technological complements in the success of open source health information technology (HIT) projects and it develops a systematic method for classifying projects based on their success potential. Drawing from economic theory, a novel proposition in the authors’ framework suggests that higher project-license restrictiveness will increase OSS adoption, because organizations will be more confident that the OSS project will remain open source in the future. Applying the framework to a sample of open source software projects in healthcare, the authors find that although project sponsorship and license restrictiveness influence project metrics, they are not significant predictors of project success categorization. On the other hand, development status, operating system and programming language are significant predictors of an OSS project’s success categorization. Application implications and future research directions are discussed.

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