THERE WILL BE ‘one star: the world’s most popular free software, Linux. And many asked: programmers, students, researchers, makers, even amateurs. All together to party, everything to put it clear: open source is no longer just the stuff of geeks. So, Saturday, Oct. 24, returns the Linux Day: The Italian day dedicated to the promotion of open source. An event that is repeated for the fifteenth consecutive year. But for the first time it extends beyond national borders, to include a foreign city: Tirana, Albania. Participation is the imperative edition 2015. “Anyone can help to improve the growth of this important resource,” says Republic Roberto Guido, President of the Italian Linux Society and coordinator of the event. “Technical and less technical, expert and not. To help take much: application development, writing and translating manuals, or find bugs, but also make a simple donation. Free software is a right, such as voting, and as such should be guaranteed “.
Program Guide . From Piedmont to Sicily, are over a hundred local businesses that revolve around the Linux User Group (LUG). And this year take part in the event organized with the financial support of IBM Bluemix, Linux Professional Institute Italy, Carrara Studio Storti and Computing International. The events are free and open, impossible to decide, you are spoiled for choice. We start from Torino four parallel sessions to suit any taste and level of detail. A Milan The penguin, the Linux mascot, splits. Two information events, in two different areas of the city. We must roll up our sleeves to Perugia and Pescara , which are provided on labs. In the first case, it is demo stations for the use of open source software and programs, in the second space is reserved for Arduino and other micro processors. The economy is the main theme in Cosenza , with a focus on the business of free software, such as a Trent which strives for sustainability. Nose to Naples , because the Linux Day is hosted by the Observatory Astronomical city. But special mention deserves the choice of Fabriano , where the day ends with a concert of songs distributed under Creative Commons. Bologna and Vicenza were the locations chosen by the new digital artisans, the makers, to showcase their projects. While in Florence , Linux, do you format 3D printers. A full house is expected to Cagliari , in the Sardinian capital are scheduled two sessions: one reserved for nerds; the other to reach even of less experienced. “Starting from the software, open the ideology has spread to other areas. First culturally. We think, for example, to open data,” says Francesco Paolo Micozzi , a lawyer involved in the event. It just has to learn. And education is central both to Palermo , through a partnership with the Polytechnic that allows aspiring engineers to get three credits, both Rome . In the capital it thinks especially for children, with a CoderDojo: a “training program” simplified for children.
The Penguin is important here because . But what is it that characterizes Linux? No, not so much his generosity, as the four freedoms that distinguish the way in which this source code is distributed. And that make it special. In fact, unlike proprietary systems, such as Windows, free software allows its users to use it in any context, to modify it and redistribute it freely. “To have him at our disposal allows us to see what are the instructions that are given to the computer and, therefore, to know what the program is actually doing,” he says Roberto Guido . A choice that has practical implications both in the educational field, as in the political, privacy and transparency. Because then it becomes much harder to change our spies and malicious software, without the fear of being discovered. Just mention the backdoor, that the NSA-surveillance devices installed in your computer. Or the Volkswagen scandal, which has managed to alter the results of its units thanks to a escamotoge software. Examples that by adopting open source, become rare. And to say that Linux has come a long way since its debut. It is August of 1991, when Linus Torvalds , then a young Finnish student, says he is working on a free operating system, “just for fun”, just for fun. But the news goes around the world and soon the kernel, the heart of the software is ready. License adopting called LPG and is the brainchild of Richard Stallman , hackers engaged in the promotion of free software since 1983, with the project GNU. But if Stallman of the essential components, Torvalds kernel. So the two initiatives come together, to create a complete operating system: GNU / Linux. The rest is history. Today Linux is installed on 75% of the stock of the world and in 95% of supercomputers. Including the Large Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator at CERN. Not only. Although we do not know, it is always thanks to Penguin running servers of Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter. A revolution. And here we are to celebrate it.
RositaRijtano
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