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<p>Aicra: /* Getting started */</p> <hr /> <div>'''Welcome to Open Source Saga'''<br /> <br /> Behind the command line or in frontn of X, ''every contributor has a story.''<br /> <br /> Join us as we document the real-world journeys, challenges, and triumphs from the ofree and pen-source frontier. This is a living archive of passion projects, breakthroughs, and the people behind the pull requests.<br /> <br /> == Getting started ==<br /> * [[Linux-respin|Respin]]<br /> * [[FFmpeg]]<br /> * [[Xpdf]]<br /> * [[Cron]]<br /> * [[VLC]]<br /> * [[OpenSSH]]<br /> [[:File:Osiprivacy.jpeg|OSI - California Privacy Protection Agency investigation]]</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=File:Osiprivacy.jpeg&diff=16 2025-04-17T17:56:18Z

<p>Aicra: redacted letter from California Privacy Protection Agency</p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> redacted letter from California Privacy Protection Agency</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=FFmpeg&diff=15 2025-04-16T10:31:45Z

<p>Aicra: ffmpeg</p> <hr /> <div>'''Linux Project:''' FFmpeg<br /> <br /> '''License:''' LGPL or GPL (depending on configuration)<br /> <br /> '''Dates Active:''' 2000–present<br /> <br /> '''Maintainers/Developers:''' FFmpeg team (originally Fabrice Bellard)<br /> <br /> '''Compatible Distro(s):''' All major Linux distributions<br /> <br /> '''History:'''<br /> <br /> FFmpeg is a leading multimedia framework able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter, and play nearly anything. It was started by Fabrice Bellard and has grown into a vast open-source collaboration.</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=14 2025-04-16T10:28:37Z

<p>Aicra: list</p> <hr /> <div>'''Welcome to Open Source Saga'''<br /> <br /> Behind the command line or in frontn of X, ''every contributor has a story.''<br /> <br /> Join us as we document the real-world journeys, challenges, and triumphs from the ofree and pen-source frontier. This is a living archive of passion projects, breakthroughs, and the people behind the pull requests.<br /> <br /> == Getting started ==<br /> * [[Linux-respin|Respin]]<br /> * [[FFmpeg]]<br /> * [[Xpdf]]<br /> * [[Cron]]<br /> * [[VLC]]<br /> * [[OpenSSH]]<br /> [[VLC|History: Linux respin]]</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=VLC&diff=13 2025-04-16T10:21:15Z

<p>Aicra: vlc</p> <hr /> <div>'''Linux Project:''' VLC media player<br /> <br /> '''License:''' GPLv2+<br /> <br /> '''Dates Active:''' 2001–present<br /> <br /> '''Maintainers/Developers:''' VideoLAN project<br /> <br /> '''Compatible Distro(s):''' All major Linux distributions<br /> <br /> '''History:'''<br /> <br /> VLC is a cross-platform media player known for its wide codec support. Originally a student project (VideoLAN Client), it’s now a cornerstone of open-source multimedia playback.</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=Audacity&diff=11 2025-04-16T10:19:39Z

<p>Aicra: audacity</p> <hr /> <div>'''Linux Project:''' Audacity<br /> <br /> '''License:''' GPLv2<br /> <br /> '''Dates Active:''' 2000–present<br /> <br /> '''Maintainers/Developers:''' Originally Dominic Mazzoni and Roger Dannenberg; currently maintained by Muse Group<br /> <br /> '''Compatible Distro(s):''' Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Fedora, etc.<br /> <br /> '''History:'''<br /> <br /> Audacity is a free, open-source audio editor and recorder. It gained popularity for its ease of use and powerful feature set. Controversy arose in 2021 over data collection changes after its acquisition.</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=OpenSSH&diff=10 2025-04-16T10:18:43Z

<p>Aicra: openssh</p> <hr /> <div>'''Linux Project:''' OpenSSH<br /> <br /> '''License:''' BSD<br /> <br /> '''Dates Active:''' 1999–present<br /> <br /> '''Maintainers/Developers:''' OpenBSD project<br /> <br /> '''Compatible Distro(s):''' All major Linux distros and Unix-like systems<br /> <br /> '''History:'''<br /> <br /> SSH (Secure Shell) replaced insecure remote shell tools like Telnet and rlogin. OpenSSH is the most widely used implementation, developed as part of the OpenBSD project to ensure secure communications.</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=Cron&diff=9 2025-04-16T10:17:49Z

<p>Aicra: cron</p> <hr /> <div><br /> '''Linux Project:''' cron (Vixie Cron, cronie)<br /> <br /> '''License:''' ISC / GPL (varies by implementation)<br /> <br /> '''Dates Active:''' 1980s–present<br /> <br /> '''Maintainers/Developers:''' Paul Vixie (original), Red Hat (cronie), community<br /> <br /> '''Compatible Distro(s):''' All Unix-like OSes<br /> <br /> '''History:'''<br /> <br /> Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like systems. It allows users to schedule tasks (cron jobs) at regular intervals. Vixie Cron became the de facto standard for decades.<br /> ----</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=Xpdf&diff=7 2025-04-16T09:33:54Z

<p>Aicra: xpdf</p> <hr /> <div>'''Linux Project:''' Xpdf<br /> <br /> '''License:''' GNU GPL<br /> <br /> '''Dates Active:''' 1995–present<br /> <br /> '''Maintainers/Developers:''' Glyph &amp; Cog, LLC (Derek B. Noonburg)<br /> <br /> '''Compatible Distro(s):''' Debian, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.<br /> <br /> '''History:'''<br /> <br /> Xpdf is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit for X11 systems. It includes command-line tools for PDF manipulation and is praised for its simplicity and minimal dependencies.</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=Linux-respin&diff=6 2025-04-16T07:07:03Z

<p>Aicra: </p> <hr /> <div>In 2015, the Copper Linux User Group, led by Marcia Wilbur with meetings in East and West Valley, paid Tony for remastersys. Tony was moving on from maintaining remastersys and Gopper Linux was going to work on it. The initial meeting was held at Barros Pizza in Chandler, Arizona. Those in attendance: Sergio, Mike, Marcia, Tammee, Don, Stephen and Rudy. That first meeting was the birth of Linux Respin. Future meetings, held mostly at Gangplank or after User Group meetings for collaborating. Respin set up IRC, Video chat and a file server. Mike handled this as he worked putting out fires and working on servers all day. The communication was vital to the project. <br /> <br /> The person assigned as Project Manager did not want to release the code. The Ubuntu lead also did not want to release the code. When these 2 approached Wilbur about closing the source, they got pushback from the developers. This is GPL.<br /> <br /> '''Release''' '''channel''': PPA Launchpad, Sourceforge and project website.<br /> <br /> '''Type:''' Command line tool and GUI<br /> <br /> '''Supported distros''': Trisquel, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu<br /> <br /> '''Peak''' 2016-2019<br /> <br /> '''Featured on''' LinuxJournal, <br /> <br /> '''Developers:''' Marcia Wilbur, Sergio Mejia, Mike Addicks.</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=Linux-respin&diff=5 2025-04-16T07:06:15Z

<p>Aicra: respin history</p> <hr /> <div>In 2015, the Copper Linux User Group, led by Marcia Wilbur with meetings in East and West Valley, paid Tony for remastersys. Tony was moving on from maintaining remastersys and Gopper Linux was going to work on it. The initial meeting was held at Barros Pizza in Chandler, Arizona. Those in attendance: Sergio, Mike, Marcia, Tammee, Don, Stephen and Rudy. That first meeting was the birth of Linux Respin. Future meetings, held mostly at Gangplank or after User Group meetings for collaborating. Respin set up IRC, Video chat and a file server. Mike handled this as he worked putting out fires and working on servers all day. The communication was vital to the project. <br /> <br /> The person assigned as Project Manager did not want to release the code. The Ubuntu lead also did not want to release the code. When these 2 approached Wilbur about closing the source, they got pushback from the developers. This is GPL.<br /> <br /> '''Release''' '''channel''': PPA Launchpad, Sourceforge and our personal website.<br /> <br /> '''Type:''' Command line tool and GUI<br /> <br /> '''Supported distros''': Trisquel, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu<br /> <br /> '''Peak''' 2016-2019<br /> <br /> '''Featured on''' LinuxJournal, <br /> <br /> '''Developers:''' Marcia Wilbur, Sergio Mejia, Mike Addicks.</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=Linux-respin&diff=4 2025-04-16T07:01:40Z

<p>Aicra: respin</p> <hr /> <div>In 2015, the Copper Linux User Group, led by Marcia Wilbur with meetings in East and West Valley, paid Tony for remastersys. Tony was moving on from maintaining remastersys and Gopper Linux was going to work on it. The initial meeting was held at Barros Pizza in Chandler, Arizona. Those in attendance: Sergio, Mike, Marcia, Tammee, Don, Stephen and Rudy. That first meeting was the birth of Linux Respin. Future meetings, held mostly at Gangplank or after User Group meetings for collaborating. Respin set up IRC, Video chat and a file server. Mike handled this as he worked putting out fires and working on servers all day. The communication was vital to the project. <br /> <br /> The person assigned as Project Manager did not want to release the code. The Ubuntu lead also did not want to release the code. When these 2 approached Wilbur about closing the source, they got an earful.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Release channel: PPA Launchpad, Sourceforge and our personal website.<br /> <br /> Command line tool and GUI<br /> <br /> Supported distros: Trisquel, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu<br /> <br /> Peak 2016.<br /> <br /> Featured on LinuxJournal, <br /> <br /> Developers: Marcia Wilbur, Sergio Mejia, Mike Addicks.</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=Linux-respin&diff=3 2025-04-16T07:00:35Z

<p>Aicra: linux respin</p> <hr /> <div>In 2015, the Copper Linux User Group, led by Marcia Wilbur with meetings in East and West Valley, paid Tony for remastersys. Tony was moving on from maintaining remastersys and Gopper Linux was going to work on it. The initial meeting was held at Barros Pizza in Chandler, Arizona. Those in attendance: Sergio, Mike, Marcia, Tammee, Don, Stephen and Rudy. That first meeting was the birth of Linux Respin. Future meetings, held mostly at Gangplank or after User Group meetings for collaborating. Respin set up IRC, Video chat and a file server. Mike handled this as he worked putting out fires and working on servers all day. The communication was vital to the project. <br /> <br /> The person assigned as Project Manager did not want to release the code. The Ubuntu lead also did not want to release the code. When these 2 approached Wilbur about closing the source, they got an earful.<br /> <br /> <br /> Marcia's account of that meeting:<br /> <br /> What do you mean you ave no intention of releasing the code. Too bad, this is GPL'd and you're telling ME... how this is going to go down. No... this is NOT how it's going down. You are no relieved of your duty as manager of this project!<br /> <br /> As Mike and Don tried to express to me, &quot;well, this is a majority vote. You really have no choice.&quot; They understood the code was GPLd and wanted to not release the source. I wanted to explain what a deb archive was to them... had even helped Mike previously create a deb (without using the Makefile) to explain the process in detail.. what files and file hierarchy. The source is in the deb. duh. I was aside myself and I stormed out of the makerspaTheyce. <br /> <br /> I had no idea they also were having Sergio - who started as QA but ended up being the Lead Ubuntu dev because... They had called him down and they tried to have him sign off on not releasing the code and he was like, NO! Asked what I had to say about the matter - knowing I would NOT be down with that. Then, Sergio and I ended up working on respin without them. We did it all from code tweaks to release and support. <br /> <br /> Released: PPA Launchpad, Sourceforge and our personal website.<br /> <br /> Command line tool and GUI<br /> <br /> Supported distros: Trisquel, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu<br /> <br /> Peak 2016.<br /> <br /> Featured on LinuxJournal, <br /> <br /> Developers: Marcia Wilbur, Sergio Mejia, Mike Addicks.</div>

Aicra https://gnulinux.io/wiki/index.php?title=File:OSSlogo.png&diff=2 2025-04-16T05:47:31Z

<p>Aicra: open source saga logo</p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> open source saga logo</div>

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