The Hindu Business Line : Open source software systems

VISAKHAPATNAM: There is a need for promoting awareness about open source software (Linux) systems and young engineering students, as well as professionals, should be exposed to them, Prof. E.V Prasad, Vice-Principal of JNTU Engineering College, Kakinada, has said.

He was speaking here on Friday at the Gayatri Engineering College after inaugurating a three-day workshop on advanced UNIX programming. Two hundred professionals from Orissa, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and other States are participating in the workshop.

Prof. N.B. Venkateswarlu, programme co-ordinator and the head of the Computer Science Department, said the UNIX operating systems had gone through many changes since 1970 and right now many variants of the systems were available, some of them being commercial while many others were free.

Prof. P.S Rao, Director of the Indo-German Institute of Advanced Technology, was the chief guest. Prof. P.S. Avadhani, Head of the IT Dept, AU Engineering College, Prof. P. Sitaram, Principal of the college, and several other experts spoke.

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