1. Open Source Software in the Home Stuff You Can Use... And Probably Already Are! by Danie van der Merwe 2013-08-23

2. 2 Agenda 1. What we already use 2. What we could also be using 3. Conclusion 3. 3 What we already use Samsung TV's, Cameras, Phones, Printers See http://opensource.samsung.com/ 4. 4 What we already use Android phones excl Google applications CyanogenMod custom ROMs use the code See http://source.android.com/source/licenses.html 5. 5 What we already use Dstv's New Explora PVR See http://www.techcentral.co.za/dstvs-new-pvr-the-inside-story/42384/ 6. 6 What we already use Apple iOS and Mac OS based on Darwin (BSD) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) 7. 7 What we already use See http://she-devel.com/Chaiken_Hangout_Mar2013.pdf 8. 8 What we already use Facebook from the ground up... See https://developers.facebook.com/opensource/ 9. 9 What we already use Amazon powered by Linux servers, Apache, Hadoop for big data, Genie for resource management, etc See http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/netflixs-open-source-genie-controls-the-data-in-amazons-cloud/ 10. 10 What we already use Browsers such as Firefox and Chromium... See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers 11. 11 What we already use And lots of other places.... Routers such as Linksys and D-Link Set-Top Boxes such as TiVo, Nokia Telephones such as Ericsson, Nokia (pre-Windows) GPS such as TomTom 12. 12 What we could also be using XBMC for media entertainment on..... Raspberry Pi ($35), Android, Windows, Linux, iOS Mac OS X See http://xbmc.org/about/ 13. 13 What we could also be using Calibre e-book library management... and Sigil See http://calibre-ebook.com/about 14. 14 What we could also be using TrueCrypt disk encryption See http://www.truecrypt.org/ 15. 15 What we could also be using Photorec for recovering lost video, photos See http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec 16. 16 What we could also be using Linux for secure banking and recovery of Windows See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD 17. 17 What we could also be using Pidgin talk to Mxit, GTalk, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, Skype, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Facebook... Jitsu adds SIP voice and video calls too See http://pidgin.im/about/ and https://jitsi.org/ 18. 18 What we could also be using DigiKam for advanced digital photo management and GIMP for serious image manipulation See http://www.digikam.org/about 19. 19 What we could also be using Games... FlightGear OpenBVE See http://www.flightgear.org/about/ and http://www.openbve.org/ 20. 20 What we could also be using Webtrees collaborative geneology See http://www.webtrees.net/ 21. 21 What we could also be using LibreOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base, Math (equation editor) Cross Platform and Standards Compliant! See http://www.libreoffice.org/ 22. 22 What we could also be using LibreOffice Using Android Impress Remote See https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.libreoffice.impressremote&hl=en 23. 23 Conclusion Without open source software the world would be: - less innovative - less interoperable - vendor lock in at greater cost - less freedom to experiment and customise FOSS is free to download and use... See http://gadgeteer.co.za/opensourcesoftware 24. Thank You Software built on pride and love of subject is superior to software built for profit. Ravi Simhambhatla, CIO, Virgin America Open source isnt about saving money, its about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have. Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat