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Title: The Latest Open Source Software Available and The Latest Development In ICT

Name :Muhammad Abqari Bin Amir Hassan Class: 4 Jujur No I/C: 950508-12-6085

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Introduction

Open source is a development methodology, which offers practical accessibility to a product source (goods and knowledge). Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical strategic element of their operations. An example of open source are LINUX, Mac OS, UNIX,

2. The Latest Open Source Operating System (OS) 2.1 Meaning of Open Source
Open source is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software's source code. Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical strategic element of their operations. Before open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety

of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with the rise of the Internet, which provided access to diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities.Software development costs in organizations have been touted as being approximately 15% of total costs. This indicates that the value of one over another development methodology is more of a marketing decision (which customers and pricing models) as much as it is about the design of software.

2.2 Example of Open Source OS Cross platform

-Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL and other free licenses. Linux is predominantly known for its use in servers, although it is installed on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging from embedded devices and mobile phones to supercomputers Linux distributions, installed on both desktop and laptop computers, have become increasingly commonplace in recent years, owing largely to the popular Ubuntu distribution and to the emergence of netbooks.

Open Source Application Software 3.1 Meaning of Open Source Application Software
Open source application software ia ppliatis oftare tat is developed and maintained byte open source community, rat ert an a soft are company. It also defined as computer softare for whichthe source code and certain other ri hts normally reserved for copyri ht holders are provided under a softwarelicensethat meetsthe Open Source Definition orthat i s in the public domain. This permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified forms. It i s very often developedin a public , collaborative manner. Open source softwareisthe most prominent example of open source development and often comparedto user-generated content. 3.2E ample of Open Source Application Software BitComet (originally named SimpleBTclient from versions 0.11to 0.37)is a cross-protocol

Mozilla Firefox
-is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 22.51%

of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of May 2009, making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide, after Internet Explorer.To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards. in addition to a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards. Firefox features include tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses the user's desired search engine (Google by default in most localizations).

4. The Latest Development in ICT 4.1 Hardware

Latest Version Graphics Card: ATI Radeon X800

The Radeon X800 series is a set of GPUs currently scheduled for future release, developed by AMD graphics products division. The existence was spotted on a presentation slide from AMD Technology Analyst Day July 2007 as "R8xx". The Radeon X800 graphics technology, award-winning 3D performance, with up to 16 pipelines, higher clock speeds and breakthrough image enchancement technology, Radeon X800 Graphics Technology introduced a whole new gaming category called High-Definition GamingGroundBreaking Speed Radeon X800 Graphics Technology Delivers frame rates that surpass all previous graphics processors and up to two times the performance of the acclaimed Radeon 9800 PRO. Radeon X800 graphics technology provides an extremely smooth, responsive HD gaming experience, putting capable gamers in complete control of even the most demanding game titles. A new Architecture based on the latest .13 micron, low-k manufacturing process with ultra fast and efficient GDDR3 memory combine to produce extreme data rates and unbelievable acceleration in a quite, cool, single-shot solution. Previous Version Graphics Card: ATI Radeon R700

Execution units
The RV770 extends the R600's unified shader architecture by increasing the stream processing unit count to 800 units (up from 320 units in the R600), which are grouped into 10 SIMD cores composed of 16 shader cores containing 4 FP MADD/DP ALUs and 1 MADD/shift/transcendental ALU. The RV770 retains the R600's 4 Quad ROP cluster count, however they are faster and now have dedicated hardware based AA resolve in addition to the shader based resolve of the the R600 architecture. The RV770 also has 10 texture units each of which can handle 4 addresses, 16 FP32 samples, and 4 FP32 filtering functions per clock cycle.

Memory and internal buses

RV770 features a 256-bit memory controller and is the first GPU to support GDDR5 memory, which runs at 900 MHz giving an effective speed of 3600 MHz and memory bandwidth of up to 115 GB/s. The internal ring bus from the R520 and R600 has been replaced by the combination of a crossbar and an internal hub 4.2 Software Previous Version Web Browser : Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Mozilla Firefox 2 was a version of Mozilla Firefox, a web browser released on October 24th 2006 by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox 2 uses version 1.8 of the Gecko layout engine for displaying web pages. The release contained many new features not found in Firefox 1.5, including improved support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and JavaScript 1.7, as well as user interface changes.

4.2 Software Previous Version Web Browser : Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Mozilla Firefox 2
Was a version of Mozilla Firefox, a web browser released on October 24th 2006 by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox 2 uses version 1.8 of the Gecko layout engine for displaying web pages. The release contained many new features not found in Firefox 1.5, including improved support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and JavaScript 1.7, as well as user interface changes. On March 22, 2006, the first alpha version of Firefox 2 (Bon Echo Alpha 1) was released. It featured Gecko 1.8.1 for the first time.

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.x is the final version supported on Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98. Mac OS X 10.5 support was added October 18, 2007 with version 2.0.0.8 .

Overview
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Links default to open in new tab. Close button on every tab. Inline spell checking for text boxes. Session restoration after a browser crash. Search suggestion for Google and Yahoo!. New search plugin manager and add-on manager. Web feed previewing. Bookmark microsummaries. Updates to the extension system. Support for Sherlock and OpenSearch. Support for SVG text using svg:textPath. Anti-phishing protection. Search suggestions appear with search history in the search box for Google and Yahoo!. Support for client-side session and persistent storage. Improved feed support.

Previous Version Web Browser : Mozilla Firefox 3.0

Mozilla Firefox 3 is a version of Mozilla Firefox, a web browser released on June 17, 2008 by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox 3 uses version 1.9 of the Gecko layout engine for displaying web pages. The new version fixes many bugs, improves standard compliance, and implements new web APIs compared to Firefox 2.0. Other new features include a redesigned download manager, a new "Places" system for storing bookmarks and history, and separate themes for different operating systems. Firefox 3 had 5.67% of the recorded usage share of web browsers by July 2008, and had over 8 million unique downloads the day it was released, setting a Guinness World Record. Current estimates of Firefox 3's global market share are generally in the range of 20-30%.

5. Pervasive Computing 5.1 Meaning of Persavive Computing

Persavive computing is the technology that is gracefully intergrated in our everyday life. Pervasive computing is the trend towards increasingly ubiquitous (another name for the movement is ubiquitous computing), connected computing devices in the environment, a trend being brought about by a convergence of advanced electronic and particularly, wireless technologies and the Internet.

5.2 Example of Pervavise Computing

Ambient Devices produced an "orb", a "dashboard", and a "weather beacon": these decorative devices receive data from a wireless network and report current events, such as stock prices and the weather. "Dangling String," installed at Xerox PARC This was a piece of string attached to a stepper motor and controlled by a LAN connection; network

activity caused the string to twitch, yielding a peripherally noticeable indication of traffic.

Conclusion
The open source model of operation and decision making allows concurrent input of different agendas, approaches and priorities, and differs from the more closed, centralized models of development. The principles and practices are commonly applied to the peer production development of source code for software that is made available for public collaboration. .