IT6007 Free and Open Source Software Syllabus Semester VIII Elective IT BTECH Anna University

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IT6007                                    FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE                                 L  T P  C
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OBJECTIVES:
The student should be made to:

• Be  exposed  to  the  context  and  operation  of  free  and  open  source  software  (FOSS)

communities and associated software projects.

• Be familiar with participating in a FOSS project
• Learn scripting language like Python or Perl
• Learn programming language like Ruby
• Learn some important FOSS tools and techniques

UNIT I             PHILOSOPHY                                                                                                                 9
Notion of Community--Guidelines for effectively working with FOSS community--, Benefits of Community based Software Development --Requirements for being open, free software, open source software –Four   degrees of freedom -   FOSS Licensing Models - FOSS Licenses – GPL- AGPL- LGPL -  FDL - Implications – FOSS examples.

UNIT II            LINUX                                                                                                                              9
Linux Installation and Hardware Configuration – Boot Process-The Linux Loader (LILO) - The Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) - Dual-Booting Linux and other Operating System   - Boot-Time Kernel Options- X Windows System Configuration-System Administration – Backup and Restore Procedures- Strategies for keeping a Secure Server.

UNIT III         PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES                                                                                      9
Programming using  languages like Python or Perl or Ruby

UNIT IV        PROGRAMMING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES                                                                9
Usage of design Tools like Argo UML or equivalent, Version Control Systems like Git or equivalent, –
Bug Tracking Systems- Package Management Systems

UNIT V         FOSS CASE STUDIES                                                                                                      9
Open Source Software Development - Case Study – Libreoffice -Samba


OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• Install and run open-source operating systems.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

• Gather information about Free and Open Source Software projects from software releases and from sites on the internet.
• Build and modify one or more Free and Open Source Software packages.
• Use a version control system.
• Contribute software to and interact with Free and Open Source Software development projects.

TEXT BOOK:

1. Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins, “Linux in a Nutshell”, Sixth Edition,

OReilly Media, 2009.

REFERENCES:

1. Philosophy of GNU URL: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/.
2. Linux Administration URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-admin-made-easy/.
3. The Python Tutorial available at http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/.
4. Perl Programming book at http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/.
5. Ruby programming book at http://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/.
6. Version control system URL: http://git-scm.com/.
7. Samba: URL : http://www.samba.org/.
8. Libre office: http://www.libreoffice.org/.