This was a presentation given at the 10.04 Ubuntu Launch Party in Waterloo, NY

1. Ubuntu – Freedom in Computing presented by Charles Profitt President New York State Ubuntu Local Community [email_address]

3. Who uses FOSS

6. Ubuntu – Freedom in Computing Free Software Open Source Software (OSS) Free Open Source Software (FOSS) Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)

7. Ubuntu – Freedom in Computing Freedom vs. No Cost

9. iTunes

10. Safari

11. Adobe Flash Viewer

12. Acrobat Reader

13. Media Player

14. Virtual PC

15. Ubuntu – Freedom in Computing “ What a lot of people don't realize or don't think about is that when you purchase software, you are actually purchasing a license to use it, not the actual software.” 7

17. Thunderbird

18. MySQL

19. PostegreSQL

20. Ingres Database

21. Open Office

23. TrueCrypt

24. Freemind

25. GIMP

26. Inkscape

27. Blender

28. Thousands more...

30. 21stcenturyskills.org

31. google.com

32. apple.com

33. amazon.com

34. state.ny.us

36. FreeBSD Apache/2.2

37. Linux gws

38. Linux Apache/2.2

39. Linux Server

40. Linux Apache/2.2

41. Linux White House

42. Alien Arena http://icculus.org/alienarena/rpa/ Ubuntu – Freedom in Computing

43. Ubuntu – Freedom in Computing Battle for Wesnoth http://www.wesnoth.org/

44. Ubuntu – Freedom in Computing Blender http://www.blender.org/

46. 14.1” display

47. 64 MB memory

48. 4.8 GB HD

49. 24x CD

51. 15.6 inch display

52. 2GB memory

53. 160 GB HD

54. 8x DVD+/- RW DL

55. Wireless + Ethernet $399 www.dell.com (2009)

58. Software $310 Total: $709 44 %

63. Package manager is outstanding

64. Desktop oriented

65. Frequent releases

66. Software is easily kept up-to-date and patched

67. “ A traveler through our country would stop at a village, and he didn’t have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of ubuntu but ubuntu has various aspects. ubuntu does not mean that people should not enrich themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you to improve?” ~ Nelson Mandela Ubuntu – Freedom in Computing

68. Ubuntu – Freedom in Computing Ubuntu is not about an operating system; it is about the community.

69. Ubuntu – Freedom in Computing

70. Ubuntu – Freedom in Computing www.fosscon.org

71. FOSS and ISTE 21st Century Skills Questions ?