Open Source Typical Mac User Live

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Welcome to the Typical Mac User Live show. My name is Victor Cajiao and I am your host this evening. My regular Podcast Typical Mac User Podcast can be found at www.typicalmacuser.com and that shows is released weekly on Tuesday nights.

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Tonight I have invited my good friend Kreg Steppe from the Technorama Podcast at www.chuckchat.com and Valid Syntax

Podcast at www.validsyntax.com to join me to talk about the open source community, open source roots, resources to find open source project for Mac OS X and some of our favorite open source projects. Welcome to the show Kreg.

• General talk about open source concepts
  • What is Open Source
    • Wikipedia Says

Open source describes the principles and methodologies to promote open access to the production and design process for various goods, products and resources. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is made available to the general public with either relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create user-generated software content through either incremental individual effort, or collaboration.

• Apple's opensource roots

With its open-source core based on FreeBSD 5.0 and the Mach 3.0 microkernel, Mac OS X is the best Macintosh operating system ever for UNIX users. With built-in support for the X Window System, IPv6, Kerberos integration, and added POSIX, Linux, and System V API support, Mac OS X easily runs your favorite open source software. With a CUPS-based print and fax engine, plus a suite of command-line and Python interfaces to Apple's Quartz graphics, it is easy to develop full-featured PDF workflows. Mac OS X even automounts Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX file servers directly in the Finder.

• Darwin

Mac OS X is a UNIX-based operating system with modern GUI and application support frameworks layered on top. The lowest layer, Darwin, includes the kernel, device drivers and driver support frameworks, a BSD personality layer, and various libraries and command-line utilities.

• Gnu Project

• Resources to find open source on the web
  • OpenSource Mac at http://www.opensourcemac.org
  • Freshmeat's OSX sectionat http://osx.freshmeat.net
  • Project Finkat http://fink.sourceforge.net

AUDIENCE Quesitons: So we have talked about the roots of Open Source and where to find some great general informaiton about Open Source, I'd like to give the audience a chance to chime in with quesitons or other good sources for getting more general information about Open Source project (not just Mac specifice)?

• Favorite Mac Open source apps
  • Firefox for anything really at http://www.spreadfirefox.com
  • Gimp at http://www.gimp.org
  • Inkscape athttp://inkscape.sourceforge.net
  • Thunderbirdat http://mozilla.com
  • Smultron Very nice OS Editor at http://smultron.sourceforge.net

Victor added

• Neo Officeat http://www.neooffice.org
• Democracy Playerat http://www.getdemocracy.com
• Adium (new version just came out) at http://adiumx.com
• Video Lan Client (VLC)
• Handbreakat http://handbrake.m0k.org
• [http://digg.com/podcasts/Typical_Mac_User_Podcast] digg the podcast
• [http://developer.aim.com] develop for aim

Audience Participation : So I'd like to get to the live listeners and have you share some of your favorite OS X Open Source projects

SHOW ENDING:

Well I want to thank Kreg Steppe from the valid Syntax and Technorama podcast for being here tonight. Also everyone listening to the stream the re-podcasted show, those of you in the chat and of course those of you on the phones for participating in another great Typical Mac User Live Podcast. Remember my regular Podcast Typical Mac User Podcast can be found at www.typicalmacuser.com and that shows is released weekly on Tuesday nights. This show will be release in my sream late tonight. If you haven't subscribed to that show yet, head over to the web site at www.typicalmacuser.com and hit the ONE BUTTON iTunes subscription.

For now this is your Host Victor Cajiao saying, enjoy the rest of your Sunday