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Announcements
July 23, 2008: This project is now called RT FOSS Distribution (rtFOSSd)
This project has been renamed to RT FOSS Distribution (rtFOSSd).
For more information on rtFOSSd, see the project page on Sourceforge.net: RT FOSS Distribution on Sourceforge.net
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Updates
Update: January 25, 2006The project is now complete.
Update: January 03, 2006
The project is nearing completion. Get a Progress Report.
Progress Report
Update: December 19, 2005
An initial (test) version of this project was released on November 11, 2005. The test version was compatible with Windows/Apache environment but there were some problems on the Linux/Apache environment. The major functions of the USP FOSS Distribution were delivered in the test version.
Since then work has been done to iron out the minor details and to implement a few other features.
The following advances have been made as of today:
- Linux/Apache compatibility
- Search string highlighted in search results
- Select the tables to view
- Process suggestions
- Interface for maintaining the Useful Projects section
- Altered the database a bit: added a new table and altered some tables and fields
- Interface to maintain admin accounts
- Fixed some minor bugs
Update: November 11, 2005
A working model of this system will be ready by November 11th, 2005.
Release 1: uspfoss.pdf
Introdution
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The USP FOSS Distribution is a digital collection of free and open source software packages relevant to USP students and staff. There are numerous open source packages available on the Internet but it is often time consuming to find a package relevant to one’s needs. The FOSS Distribution hopes to vastly reduce the search time for locating a free and open source package, by hosting user-relevant projects at a single location, ready for download. This way there will be no need to search the Internet. This system will also free the bandwidth, as the required packages will be already available locally. A user will be able to interact with the system, that is, to search and download a project, via a web page. The web page will allow the user to query the database and download the relevant project. |
Objectives
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The objectives of the USP FOSS Distribution are:
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Major Functions
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The main functions of the FOSS Distribution are listed below:
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Interfaces
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The two main interfaces in the system will be between software modules of the system and between the user and the system. Software Interface
The system will require software interfaces between:
Human Interface There will be two major types for human interface:
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About Rajneel:
Rajneel is a student at the University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Fiji Islands. He is undertaking a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in Computing Science, Engineering Technology and Information Systems.
He started using Free and Open Source Software in April 2005 and has used a number of Open Source software in his projects.
Rajneel has also developed a Fijian Spell Check Add-in for Microsoft Word and was also part of the team that developed the Fijian Spell Checker for OpenOffice .
