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OSS Assignment - 1 August 21, 2015
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Assignment – 1
Submission Guideline (only soft copies):
1. Complete your assignment in Microsoft Word file (.doc or .docx) and name your file as your roll number
(Example: R143215008).
2. Copy all content (Ctrl + A) and paste it in the textbox given on the website
http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/ and click on “Check for plagiarism”.
3. After few seconds or minutes, it will show result. Save that page in pdf format and name that file as
<Roll Number>_<Plagiarism Report> (Example: R143215008_ Plagiarism Report)
4. Submit both files (assignment in .doc or .docx and report in pdf format) to your CR before 28 August 2015.
5. Note for CR: Please take both files from the students and keep it in one folder, then submit that folder to
me on 28 August 2015.
6. Note for all: Please don’t try to copy the exact word to word content from the internet that will be detected
by the plagiarism checker. Also please don’t copy each other’s assignment which will be check by me
using the offline comparer software. If you caught in either of the case, your assignment will be rejected.
Assignment
1. What are the four open source components of LAMP? Describe them in short.
2. Justify the following statement:
2.1 “To be neutral between free software and open source, the way to achieve that is
FLOSS, not FOSS.”
3. “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like
gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.”
3.1 Who posted the message given above to comp.os.minix newsgroup in 1991?
3.2 In context of which product the statement was given?
3.3 What was the reason that person had developed the product?
4. Write at least three examples of open source under following heads:
4.1 Applications
4.2 Operating System
4.3 Programming Language
4.4 Open Source Office
4.5 Databases
4.6 Servers
5. What is the need of open source?
6. Which foundation was started when Netscape Communicator software was made
open source?
7. What is the detailed definition of Open Source as per Open Source Initiative?
8. Write a note on evolution of open source development with the help of time line.
By:
Jatin Sethi ([email protected])
Assistant Professor – UPES Dehradun