Critical Aspects of Modern Open Source SoftwareTechnology to Support Emerging Demands

Software has gained immense importance in our everyday lifeand is handling each and every aspect of today's technologicalworld. The idea of software at initial phase was implemented bya very precise minority of individual and now it's everywherewhether one's personal life or an organi...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2011-09
Main Authors: Umer Farooq, M Aqeel Iqbal, Usman Shabbir, Nazir, Sohail
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Freeware
Linux
Open source software
Scientific papers
Software
Windows (computer programs)
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Summary:Software has gained immense importance in our everyday lifeand is handling each and every aspect of today's technologicalworld. The idea of software at initial phase was implemented bya very precise minority of individual and now it's everywherewhether one's personal life or an organization .Financiallystrong organization and people who can purchase this bounty oftechnological era can fulfill their desires efficiently. For sure it's not a generalized case that one is financially strong and caneasily afford the desired software. There are numerous userswho cannot do so. Open source software has a way out for theseusers it provides them the same facilities and functionalities asin their equivalent software irrespective of any financialpressure. So the financially constrained personals ororganization can make use of open source software forachievement of their desired tasks. In this research paper ananalysis of open source software has been presented byproviding a brief comparison of Ubuntu as an emerging highquality open source modern operating system with well knownMicrosoft windows operating system
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1109.0246