Software Freedom Day(SFD) කියලා කියන්නේ Free Software පිළිබඳව සමරන්න පැවැත්වෙන උත්සවයක්. සෑම වසරකම පැවැත්වෙන මේ උත්සවයේ අරමුණ වෙන්නේ Free Software සහ ඒවායේ භාවිතය පිළිබඳව සමාජ මට්ටමේ දැනුවත් කිරීමක් ඇතිකිරීමයි.
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Operating System කිව්වම අපි ගොඩක් දෙනෙක්ගේ මුල්ම තෝරාගැනීම වෙන්නේ Microsoft වෙතින් එන Windows Operation Systems. ඒක Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 හෝ Windows 10 වෙන්න පුළුවන්. හැබැයි Original Windows OS එකක් මිලදීගන්න පුළුවන් වෙන්නේ අපේ සුළුතරයකටයි. ඊට හේතුව වෙන්නේ Windows 10 home version එකක් ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් 119(රුපියල් 18,000ක්) වන අතර pro version එකක් ඇමරිකානු ඩොලර් 199ක්(රුපියල් 30,000ක්) පමණ වීමයි. Read More
-A less technical side of the Story
Microsoft and Open Source
Microsoft has made grounds in its decade-long crusade against FOSS. A company which once openly held the belief that the Open Source Software model is breaking the whole IT industry announced a Windows Subsystem for Linux. Since its inception, Microsoft has been extremely careful who gets to see the inside of their moneymaker – Windows. Nothing much has changed even at this point regarding the way they hold the source code for Windows, a sacred mystery.
But the world changed faster than Windows could catch up. Cloud computing and many other infrastructures became the norm and since Linux dominated the cloud and a result dominated the whole internet, Microsoft knew Windows alone would not keep their company going. It’s the cloud game that changes Microsoft’s view on Linux. It is said that one in three Azure Virtual Machines run Linux. Eventually, Microsoft found its way into the world of Open Source Software, becoming a top contributor to the Linux Kernel.
2016 is almost over and we came across multiple groundbreaking news over the year. There were some exciting and also disappointing announcements made. Let’s check them out.