Free Software

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Free Software’s Definition

“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. With these freedoms, the users (both individually and collectively) control the program and what it does for them

GNU PROJECT

• The GNU operating system is the Unix-like operating system, which is entirely free software, that we in the GNU Project have developed since 1984.

• The GNU system contains all of the official GNU software packages.

Free Software Programs

• Photo Editor

• HTML Editor

• Sound Editor

• Logo Creator

• File Recovery

GIMP (Photo editor)You can edit photos like photoshop.

Kompozer (HTML Editor)

You can create a web page or things that you are going to use in a web page.

Audacity (Sound editor)

You can edit songs, and use effects or modify the voice of the singer, etc.

Inkscape (Logo creator)

• You can create a logo for a web page or something like that.

Recuva (File Recovery)

You can recover files that you have deleted.

Operating Systems

Free software has a lot of distribution that are based on Unix. For example:

• LINUX• MAX• UBUNTU• BACKTRACK(wifi security)

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