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Government
US Navy - The US Navy's most advanced warship is powered by Linux. The next generation warship is a guided missile destroyer. It uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux along with Fedora as its operating systems. The Navy also utilizes Linux to run it's drone fleet. Government use of open source continues to expand.
ConnectED and edX - President Obama announced on November 2014, that edX and ConnectED will partner to deliver teacher training and AP courses. ConnectED is the President's initiative to enhance K-12 through the delivery of broadband access and digital content.
Open License - On October 29, 2015 the Department of Education announced a proposed regulation to require that all copyrightable intellectual property created with grant funds have an open license. Openly licensed materials can be modified and redistributed without violating copyright laws.
Education
Edubuntu - Edubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with community based support. Edubuntu provides a system that contains all the best free software available in education and makes it easy to install and maintain.
Free Technology Academy - The FTA provides a virtual campus offering course modules on Free Software and Open Standards. Educational materials in the FTA are released under free licenses. FTA is constructed on a Free Software OS and utilizes Free Software and standards to deliver its services.
Software
bash - Bash is both a command interpreter and a programming language. As a command interpreter, bash provides the user interface to the rich set of GNU utilities. The programming language features allow these utilities to be combined. Mastering a shell such as bash is important for anyone learning Linux.
find - The find program searches for files that match the specified criteria and optionally executes some function on those files. Find can compare or identify files based on name, location, type, size, creation and many more attributes. find is a very useful and powerful command line utility.
Financial Opportunity
Personal Opportunity - Free software gives you access to billions of dollars of software at no cost. Use this software for your business, personal use or to develop a profitable skill. Access to source code provides access to a level of capabilities/information that companies protect though copyrights. Open source is a core component of the Internet and it is available to you. Leverage the billions of dollars in resources and capabilities to build a career, establish a business or change the world. The potential is endless for those who understand the opportunity.
Business Opportunity - Goldman Sachs, IBM and countless large corporations are leveraging open source to reduce costs, develop products and increase their bottom lines. Learn what these companies know about open source and how open source can give you the advantage.
U.S. Government - On January 20 2009, President Obama's first day in office, the Open Government initiative was issued to provide transparency and access to Government data. Learn how our Government is using open source and the opportunities this provides for you. Leverage Use open Government data or
Free Books
The Free Books Library is a collection of thousands of the most popular public domain books in an online readable format. The collection includes great classical literature and more recent works where the U.S. copyright has expired. These books are yours to read and use without restrictions.
The Library of History by Diodorus the Sicilian is one of the most highly regarded universal histories in antiquities. His work includes the history of Egypt, Asia, Africa, Greece and Europe. His book is a must read for research of ancient history.
The Histories of Herodotus written in 440 BC is considered to be the founding work of history in Western literature. His history included stories and fables but he claimed to have traveled extensively and learned about many countries through direct observation.
The thesis of Stolen Legacy is that the Egyptians created what is wrongly called Greek philosophy. Dr. James argues that the African origin of Greek Philosophy is well known but rarely discussed. Ancient Greek historians such as Herodotus and Diodorus the Sicilian wrote in significant detail about the contributions of Egypt. Egyptian technology and libraries were unmatched and Greek philosophers such as Pythagoras and Plato studied there. The contribution of Africa to the intellectual foundation of modern knowledge is tremendous but unacknowledged.
Bible Study The King James Bible (kjv), World English Bible (web) and Bible in Basic English (bbe) are all examples of public domain books. The King James Bible (kjv) online uses the content from these books and open source software to enhance Bible study capabilities. The site includes the verse of the day, search tools, christian literature and links to related content. It demonstrates the use of open source to create a valuable service.
Free Software
Free Software provides computer programs and capabilities at no cost but more importantly, it provides the freedom to run, edit, contribute to, and share the software. The importance of free software is a matter of access, not price. Software at no cost is a benefit but ownership rights to the software and source code is far more significant.
Free Office Software - The Libre Office suite provides top desktop productivity tools for free. This includes, a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation engine, drawing and flowcharting, database and math applications. Libre Office is available for Linux or Windows.
Linux is an open source computer operating system (OS) used on laptops, games, watches and super computers. The software and the source code used for Linux are both available to you at no cost. Use this powerful resource to your advantage.
Source Code - Want to change a program or know how it works? Open Source provides the source code for its programs so that anyone can use, modify or learn how to write those programs themselves. Visit the GNU source code repositories to download the source.
Educational Materials
Study at Harvard, Stanford or MIT - Open edX provides free online courses from Harvard, MIT, Columbia, UC Berkeley and other top Universities. Hundreds of courses for almost all major subjects and course levels. Open edx also offers some paid courses and selected certifications.
Linux Manual Pages - A man or manual page is a form of software documentation found on Linux/Unix operating systems. Topics covered include computer programs (including library and system calls), formal standards and conventions, and even abstract concepts.
