Free Software for Busy People

Using Free Software alternatives to Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop can save you thousands of dollars. And commercial alternatives to Free Software content management systems and websites design tools can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Free Software is also high quality. The web browser Firefox and the email software Thunderbird introduced security and powerful features before their commercial competitors did. Quality is why the Apache web server powers over 50% of the world's websites.

This book will show you how to use these tools in your company, charity, school or hospital.

    Title Free Software for Busy People
    Author(s) Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
    Publisher: Idiopathic Publishing (August 1, 2005)
    Paperback 199 pages
    ebook Online, HTML
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 0954415736
    ISBN-13: 978-0954415730
    eBook: http://books.google.com.pk/books?

Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project

This is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software.

This comprehensive guide offers several tried and true steps to help you successfully manage the complex process of developing free software. Topics include project management, developer motivation, technical infrastructure to support collaboration, and project promotion. Producing Open Source Software is ideal for developers starting their own free software projects, or people who simply want to participate in the process.

Title Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
Author(s) Karl Fogel
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (October 14, 2005)
Paperback 304 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596007590
ISBN-13: 978-0596007591
eBook: http://producingoss.com/

Open Source Security Tools: A Practical Guide to Security Applications

This book is a practical, hands-on introduction to open source security tools.

Inside, you’ll find everything from how to harden Linux and Windows systems to how to investigate breaches with Sleuth Kit, Autopsy Forensic Browser, and Forensic Tool Kit. For each security task described, the author reviews the best open source tools and how to use them and also provides a case study and sample implementation. Covered tasks include:

    Installing an open source firewall using Ipchains, Iptables, Turtle firewall, or Smoothwall
    Scanning ports and testing for vulnerabilities using Nmap, Nlog, Nmap for Windows, Nessus,and NessusWX
    Using sniffers and network-intrusion systems, including Tcpdump, Ethereal, Windump, Snort™, and Snort™ for Windows
    Tracking and analyzing collected data with Swatch, ACID, and NCC
    Encrypting communications with PGP, GnuPG, SSH, and Free S/WAN

This handy reference also tackles the emerging field of wireless security and covers tools such as Kismet Wireless, Airsnort, and Netstumber.

Whether you’re a Windows system administrator or a network administrator, you will come away with an understanding of how open source security tools can help protect your organization and further your own career.

Title Open Source Security Tools: A Practical Guide to Security Applications
Author(s) Tony Howlett
Publisher: Prentice Hall (August 8, 2004), Pearson Education, Inc (2005)
Hardcover 608 pages
Language: English
ASIN: 0321194438
ISBN-13: 978-0321194435
eBook: http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/0321194438/downloads/0321194438_book.pdf

The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin

 In addition to covering a history of free and open source, The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin explores how free and open software is changing the world. It is authored by Peter H. Salus, a noted UNIX, open source, and Internet historian and author of A Quarter Century of UNIX and Casting The Net and other books. Salus has interviewed well over a hundred key figures to document the history and background of free and open source software. In his book, Salus reaches back into the early days of computing, showing that even in "pre-UNIX" days there was freely available software, and rapidly moves forward to the Free Software movement of today and what it means for the future, drawing analogies and linkages from various aspects of economics and life. 

Title The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin
Author(s) Peter H. Salus
Publisher: Reed Media Services (September 1, 2008)
Paperback 204 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 097903423X
ISBN-13: 978-0979034237
eBook: http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859

Implementation of Free Software Systems

This course book examines the concepts related to Free Software business and allows us to know and identify concepts related to its production.

The student should become familiar with agencies and projects related to the implementation of Free Software in the public sector, private sector and know, identify and understand the consequences of the use and exploitation of Free Software in different areas of implementation.

This book also studies how to approach and implement projects based on Free Software, projects to migrate, production and development methodologies and business projects related with free software.

Title Implementation of Free Software Systems
Author(s) Amadeu Albós Raya, Marcelo D'Elia Branco, Mónica León Martínez, Alejandro Novo López, Alberto Otero García, Óscar David Sánchez Jiménez
Publisher: Free Technology Academy - Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, First edition (February 2010)
Language: English
eBook: http://ftacademy.org/materials/fsm/8