FREE OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE HAS GAINED THE POPULARITY AS A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHOD-A REVIEW

Mohammed Rafique Shamhsuddin Attar; Sai Vijay Kumar P

doi:10.26483/ijarcs.v8i7.4137

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Published: Aug 28, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26483/ijarcs.v8i7.4137

Keywords:

Open Source, usability, Usability assessment, FOSS

Mohammed Rafique Shamhsuddin Attar

System Administrator, Gas-Hydrate Group, CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Uppal Road, Hyderabad

Sai Vijay Kumar P

Abstract

The most blooming and successful software among them are: Linux Operating System, Mozilla, Apache web server and Openoffice.org [1]. The FOSS is being viewed by many as its being good in terms of their usage, reliability, performance and market share.
The major focus of open source software developer is on functionality and the features which are useful, easy to use by the users. The major advantages of FOSS and its importance is the usability of open source applications which are embedded in most Linux OS and how it can be measured by assessing user performance such as, satisfaction, effectiveness and acceptability. Linux is a freely available Operating System in different flavours and with different languages. The Linux feature set is similar to the feature set of Microsoft Windows

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Vol. 8 No. 7 (2017): July-August 2017

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