We take a slightly deeper look at free software on the web and the really active community of people right here in Ireland who help develop it. Everything is out there from operating systems like Ubuntu to full office packages and it really is as simple as using a Windows or Mac machine.

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Open Source Software in Ireland is bigger than you think. Luis de Bethencourt joins us in studio to tell us all about it and what applications he would recommend. He talks about how its use has developed in Ireland and the OSS Barcamp which recently took place in Dublin.

Websites mentioned on the show:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam - Ubuntu Ireland
http://www.ubuntu.com - Ubuntu
http://www.virtualbox.org/ - Virtual Box
http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net/ - Ubuntu Live CD
http://opensolaris.org/ - Open Solaris

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