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Open Source Software is software for which the source code is available for free. Usually the source code and compiled versions can be used/changed/redistributed with simple restrictions as detailed in the accompanying license. Even though the source code is readily available, some companies like Red Hat charge for support with their product. The Open Source principles can also be applied to concepts besides software.

Open source is a general term that encompasses many different licenses. They all share some common characteristics, though. These include freely available source code, free redistribution, the license cannot be specific to a product - the code must follow the license regardless of implementation, and the license must not restrict the type of licenses that other products distributed with it must use. A more in-depth definition can be seen at the Open Source Initiative site.

Some of the more common open source licenses include:

Some popular open source software packages include:

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Web Analytics Services - Do you have any experience with Piwik?

As the question suggests, I'm looking at installing Piwik to monitor my sites. Currently I'm using Clicky, which works well but I'm reluctant to upgrade to the paid version. Does anyone have any experience or advice about this application?
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Tool to monitor new releases of open-source software

I'm looking for an open-source tool that is used to monitor releases of new versions of open-source software and is built using a plug-in architecture (one plug-in for each app that must be monitored). This is a generic task, at least for package…
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remote server log viewer/analyzer

I have an rsyslog server running Ubuntu 12.04 which stores logs from different clients also running Ubuntu 12.04. Now I want to view those logs from my machine which also runs Ubuntu 12.04. One way is to ssh to the server and view the logs using…
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Any decent open source link/directory managers out there?

I maintain a site with a crusty old version of "Links" by Gossamer Threads. It's written in perl, gets 99.99% of its submissions from bots, and is just plain out-dated. Now, I realize that Gossamer has newer versions, but I was hoping to find…
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Open source proxy server SSL interception and HTTP header insertion

I am new to proxies. Can anyone suggest an open source proxy server that supports SSL interception and HTTP header insertion.
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Internal opensource web-based office solution

I am looking for an open source equivalent to Google Docs that can be locally hosted. Does anyone have any experience in using any open source web office solutions? The key features I am looking for are Runs on Linux Supports importing .xls…
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Linux-Based, Open-Source, Speed-Test Module

I am setting up diagnostic servers on local networks (Redhat 5.5). One requirement is a speed test where users in the network can test the speed of their internet connection (e.g., http://speedtest.net/ ). I have been given the impression that…
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Zimbra Alternative Open source application

I'm looking for an open source alternative for zimbra which supports outlook and thunderbird as pop and smtp clients. I don't need collaboration suite. If anyone can suggest or share their experience on MTA? Thanks.
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How to Install Apache , MySQL and PHP on AIX 7.1

i want to install following open source software on AIX 7.1 Apache 2.2.19 PHP 5.2.6 MySQL - 5.0.67 please help me on this.
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Open source antivirus/antispam/web filtering gateway

Possible Duplicate: Open Source Unified Threat Management Software Options I want to install firewall which have following features Antispam, Anti Virus, Webfiltering, Userwise access, Intrusion prevention etc. is any product from open source…
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Blocking applications on Macs

I will preface this, with the truth that I know little about Macs :-) I am trying to workout a way to block application installations (or executions) on Macs. We have a subset of executive users (meaning they "need" root on the box) who have Macs.…
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Internal only DNS?

We are running a research project with hundreds (becoming thousands) of remote hosts. Each host is running OpenVPN so we can find them regardless of what their 'assigned' IP is. We have been using DynDNS to manage this but we're running into some…
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Are there any ready to use open source websocket server implementation?

Are there some open source websocket server implementations, especially ready for production? (Are there Erlang based out there?)
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What are the benefits of going with an open source stack?

What are the benefits of going with an open source stack in terms of price and service (not technical)? I am a .NET developer; our team is developing an application in ASP.NET MVC. For some reason we need to consider open source stack (Ruby on Rails…
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High availability open source SQL database solution for Rails application

I'm researching a topic of high availability database for a Rails application. I'm looking for Open Source based solutions. At the moment our system is running on one application host + one db host, which means any of this two goes down I'm in…
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