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Open-source software ( OSS ) is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under an open-source license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software. Open source software is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open-source software is the most prominent example of open-source development and often compared to (technically defined) user-generated content or (legally defined) open content movements. [ 1 ] A report by the Standish Group states that adoption of open-source software models has resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ edit ] History The free software movement was launched in 1983.

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VirtualBox

Oracle today released VirtualBox 4.1.16, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.1 which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the ChangeLog for details. Oracle today released VirtualBox 4.0.16, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.0 which improves stability and fixes regressions. https://www.virtualbox.org/
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GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching , image composition and image authoring . It works on many operating systems, in many languages. ( more... ) This is the official GIMP web site. It contains information about downloading, installing, using, and enhancing it. This site also serves as a distribution point for the latest releases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Alpha , ARM , AVR32 , Blackfin , C6x , ETRAX CRIS , FR-V , H8/300 , Hexagon , Itanium , M32R , m68k , Microblaze , MIPS , MN103 , OpenRISC , PA-RISC , PowerPC , s390 , S+core , SuperH , SPARC , TILE64 , Unicore32 , x86 , Xtensa Linux ( i / ˈ l ɪ n ə k s / LIN -əks [ 5 ] [ 6 ] or / ˈ l ɪ n ʊ k s / LIN -uuks ) [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of Linux is the Linux kernel , an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds . [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Linux was originally developed as a free operating system for Intel x86 -based personal computers . It has since been ported to more computer hardware platforms than any other operating system.

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