Open Source Computing in ICT Education by Dr. Pablo Manalastas

PHILIPPINE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL (PITJ)
Volume I. Number 1. February 2008. pp. 7-13.


Review Paper

Open Source Computing in ICT Education

Pablo Manalastas
Department of Information Systems and Computer Science
Ateneo de Manila University
Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City 1108, Philippines
Telephone: +63-2-4266001 local 5660
Email: pmanalastas @ acm.org

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we describe free and open source software, list the free and open source software tools that are useful in information and communications technology (ICT) education, and give the universal resource locators (URLs) from where these tools can be downloaded.

Keywords

Free software, open source software, FOSS, operating systems, application programs, development tools, compilers and interpreters, C, C++, Java, FSF, GNU, Linux, BSD, Apache, Sendmail, Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Gimp.



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