Two days ago F/OSsiL website goes online, I want to thank all colleagues in Libyan Spider Network for their generous help, FOSsiL will be the official board for this group and all activity will realease on it, FOSsiL preparing for Linux Day in Libya. for more info go to FOSSIL.LY

As the FOSS is getting high attention from different entities in the world, just to mention the UNDP and the European Union, and because of the Technical Committees and Groups around the glob in addition to the number of researches, papers, conferences and meetings, and the different reports about FOSS, we established the Free and Open Source Software in Libyan Group (FOSSiL group) to formalize the efforts and activities that will be in Libya related to this field. We have as one of our main goals is to open the opportunities for our Computer Students within different colleges and institutes, programmers, computer engineers, and enthusiastic in Libya to benefit and to participate in developing huge software packages and exchange with engineers with high experience to improve their performance and have the best and effective way of Knowledge Transfer.
In the following sections we will present the Open Source Definition that is initiated and applied by the Open Source International. It will be followed by two sections each for one of the most commonly used Open Source Software Licenses.

Free and open source software

Its goal is to provide a comprehensive compilation of tools which, when working together, grant a network/security administrator with detailed view over each and every aspect of his networks/hosts/physical access devices/server/etc…
Besides getting the best out of well known open source tools, some of which are quickly described below these lines, ossim provides a strong correlation engine, detailed low, mid and high level visualization interfaces as well as reporting and incident managing tools, working on a set of defined assets such as hosts, networks, groups and services.

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Mondo Rescue is a GPL disaster recovery solution. It supports Linux (i386, x86_64, ia64) and FreeBSD (i386). It’s packaged for multiple distributions (RedHat, RHEL, SuSE, SLES, Mandriva, Debian, Gentoo).

It supports tapes, disks, network and CD/DVD as backup media, multiple filesystems, LVM, software and hardware Raid.
Homepage
http://www.mondorescue.org/