Social, Professional and Ethical Aspects of IT

 Week 13 Linux  is  a family of Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel. In my opinion Linux has many advantages over another OSs and one of them is a s it is open-source everyone can access the code customizing and modifying it in a way he likes. That's why there are over   600 linux  distributions now and about 500 are in development. As we should pick 2 of them and discuss I would like to discuss the most unusual ones. Hannah Montana Linux This distribution is dedicated to fans of the series "Hannah Montana" - where Hannah Montana is an ordinary schoolgirl during the day and becomes a singer at night. Only a single version based on Kubuntu 9.04 has been released. Kubuntu itself is a linux distrubution, that was first presented on December 10, 2004 at the Ubuntu Mataro Conference in Mataro, Spain. It uses the KDE graphical environment instead of the default Ubuntu GNOME. Most of all distributors are not lazy to change the name of t...

 Week 12 For me hacker is a specialist, who uses a computer as a tool to solve problems and to achieve the goals.  Good hackers are creative, thinking outside the box, as well as they like what they do and love exploring new things. Being a hacker is a culture with its own ideas, ethic and values that were born a long time ago, however they are still modern. In this blog I will go through seven values of hacker ethic and analyse their applicability.  Passion - if you do what you love to do, you will never get tired of that and you will always do it better. As    Linus Torvalds said: "Linux has very much been a hobby (but a serious one: the best type)", if your work is your hobby then it's not a work. Freedom - today many people work according to given rules and  instructions that seem trusted, which doesn't allow them to express their creativity, however the best ideas born when people have opportunity to do things differently Hacker work...