The open source model of developing software is making a significant impact, not only in the software development and broader high-tech community, but more generally within corporations, other types of businesses and organizations around the world, as Part 1 of this series describes.

LiveContent is a sampler of free content and free software, but this purpose seems lost in a cloud of rhetoric, even to project members. The CD suffers from lackluster presentation, a mediocre assortment of samplers, and a lack of explanation.

So we've all probably blindly followed the directions of one tutorial or another at some point in time. Whether it was for some programming technique or to get a mail server up and running. Have you ever stopped to think about how damaging the tutorial could be if it contained wrong information?

"RDF stands for Resource Description Framework. A resource is simply a thing; a person, a book, a keyboard, a blog post, a fish tank, an idea: any thing that can be described. RDF is a framework that uses the architecture of the web to describe a resource. Just as HTML allows you to link your document to other documents on the web, RDF lets you link a resource to other resources on the web."

Projects like the Tux Project and the Radio Talkshow Blitz are vitally important projects when it comes to helping the Free Software movement grow.

"...August appears to be a watershed month for GPLv3 adoption. Last week I mentioned that the new license saw 14% growth week over week. This week? 19%..."

A GNU/Linux user was jailed for uploading a film onto a peer-to-peer service. Now he's being told he will have to switch to Windows if he wants to use a computer again.

I made this list because I realized how long it took, for me, to discover even a small portion of these apps when I first started using Linux. Hopefully someone new to Linux or looking for programs they have never used finds this helpful.