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Shows you how to use free and open source alternatives to most paid software options
Great introduction to the wide range of free and open source software
Written by an extremely experienced technical author well versed with distilling complex subjects into east-to-follow concepts
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Graphics and Multimedia
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Cloud-Based Services
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About this book
Get all the things done you're used to doing with pricey software at a fraction of the cost. There are hundreds of free programs out there that work just as well as the commercial programs people pay hundreds of dollars for. This book tells you how to find and use the most popular and useful of these.
The Open Source movement is a system where programmers can share code and collectively improve programs. As a result they can produce programs that are just as good, if not better than their commercial alternatives. For example, LibreOffice comes with a database, Microsoft Office does not.
This book shows you where to get and how to use the best Open Source programs giving you not only access to high quality software, but saving you money as well. Add Practical Free Alternatives to Commercial Software to your library today.
What You'll Learn
- Use the free spreadsheet program Libreoffice-calc to balance your checkbook, do an expense account, and other tasks
- Perform presentations with Libreoffice-impress instead of Powerpoint
- Photo edit with The Gimp, a high powered image editor
- Edit videos with Openshot
- Create video DVDs with DVDStyler
Who This Book Is For
Home or small business PC users who want to save money on software
Authors and Affiliations
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San Diego, USA
Steve Oualline, Grace Oualline
About the authors
Steve Oualline is the author of many books concerning Linux, C++, and Open Source Software. He is an expert Linux programmer, currently living in San Diego. His hobbies include volunteering at the Orange Empire Railroad Museum, where he restored their Acme Traffic signal, one of thirteen which are known to exist.
Grace Oualline is currently a freshman in high school and lives in San Diego, California with her father, Steve, and his wife Chi. Grace is known by her peers as an art and math prodigy, with a love for learning. She aspires to work in the field of mathematics and design as she plans out her future.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical Free Alternatives to Commercial Software
Authors: Steve Oualline, Grace Oualline
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3075-6
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Steve Oualline and Grace Oualline 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-3074-9Published: 22 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3075-6Published: 21 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 425
Number of Illustrations: 437 b/w illustrations
Topics: Open Source