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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41Wow, 480+ open source projects. Sourceforge.net hosts over 100,000 open source projects, nicely categorized and easily searched:
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/ - realityiswhere, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Why is this in the Linux/Unix section? These apps are for Windows. OSS isn't synonymous with Linux, and not all Linux users care about OSS for Windows.
- superdoug, on 10/10/2007, -5/+22Thats a huge list, but mostly for windows. Very few, if any linux apps, most linux apps are open source.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -13/+27Ok, so where do us Atheists go to get open source apps?
- sylv3r, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16The list is probably the lamest I've seen. If you're going to mark it with OSS you could at least brand ALL of them to w/c operating system they're native to. Other than that most of the descriptions are easily google-able.
- esotericguy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13he just wanted everyone to see his witty wit.
- kali25, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8The list has both Gaim and Pidgin listed. WTF. That shows me the author did not take much time to make it a good list, just a big list.
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Too large a list.
- agimat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6dude, that was both lame and awesome at the same time.
- slothlovechunk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8choke yourself?
- resplence, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6In the first split-second I thought it was gonna be a story on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_religion
- mlazarov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I thought this was going to be about a single guy that wrote all of these.
- juicebag, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8"Welcome to the world, where most people use windows."
Fixed. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Fail for not including VirtualDub.
- LinuxGalore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4or just go to www.freshmeat.net for all your FOSS needs
- p0ss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Surely they could have organised them into categories...
- MrTea, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Foobar2000 isn't open source.
- SLYK, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9and your post applies to the OPs post...how?
- frazw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3In your pocket.
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -10/+13Bluddy hell! That's a huge list.
- Quick2822, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yet another huge list from this site that appears the person just copies everything he can find and puts it on there to make a big list.
I'd rather have a list of 20 of the best, out of the 480. Buried as lame. - svivian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Even if this list were accurate, it still sucks. What advantage do you get from posting eg 11 different email clients without saying which one is better, or at least what distinguishes them.
- spect3r, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4^ Odd...
http://digg.com/software/List_of_open_source_softw ... - ZenMasterJG, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Depends on what FTP server your using. Many ftp servers (proftpd comes to mind) are very modular, so if a module doesn't already exist to do what you want, creating one wouldn't be that difficult.
- mustiy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Awesome list.
Would anyone know of a software solution that emails users when they have files uploaded/downloaded from a FTP server? Basically put, i need a FTP server/client (or perhaps some CMS do this?) that can email users upon certain activities such as download/upload... Thanks in advance. - chumpsucker, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Yeah but where's the money?
- 4tygames, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Kazaa? Seriously?
Once I read that, I stopped reading the list. - dakeyras, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Both Gaim and Pidgin are on the list, with different descriptions (the Gaim link even redirects to Pidgin's homepage). I haven't gone over the entire list, but I see other people have already pointed out other mistakes (foobar2000 isn't open source (http://foobar2000.org/license.html), since it requires author's permission for redistribution of modified binaries).
Maybe I'm just a pedant, but I think an article whose title makes only two claims ("open source" and 480+) should contain 480+ unique open source applications. I think it should be the responsibility of the author/editor to figure that out before posting it.
Did anyone else notice any obvious blunders in the list? - merher, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2ummm.... no opera??! This list is a joke.
- sheepster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2that pidgin logo was pretty rockin
- sazmy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://geek2live.blogspot.com/2007/07/116-open-sou ...
this is a more accurate list - kjcdude, on 10/10/2007, -6/+8Welcome to the internet where most people use windows.
- TechBharat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2and call it GOD !
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1Nice! i already dled xvidcap (recordmydesktop is nice, but doesnt support divx, which isnt very useful for uploading to stage6). lol browser3d seems like a cool concept (microsoft had a video of something like that a while ago that they envisioned as being the future of windows at the time); ill dl it l8r when im bored.
- heystoopid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It is open source , so the source code is freely available for modification and improvement , thus logically with all the correct libraries available just where is the problem of cross compilation to the target operating system ?
- Kamujin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Should be 479, Gaim and Pidgin are the same thing.
- cg0def, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1dude some of the projects that you list are dead and there are quite a few good ones that are missing.
Also "XboxMediaPlayer is an open source multimedia player from Microsoft useful for viewing various video/audio/picture files like VOB, AVI, MP3 etc." ... really dude? Microsoft? Not only is the description wrong but the project has been dead for several years now. All the work that went into XBMP is a part of XBMC now and the project is not really open source. Sure you can probably get the source even if you are not one of the developers but without having a free compiler it is quite useless and the executables released are not OSS just free software. Same was true for XBMP.
Having a list for cross platform OSS/free programs would have been much more useful. That way you can use the same applications that you are used to regardless of what computer you're stuck on. - nkthen, on 02/26/2008, -0/+1HUGE HUGE list!
http://www.osdw.org - erinspice, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If God advocated Open Source, the world would be a much better place.
- TomPhoolery, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1thanks for a web 2.0 version of GNU...
- BitBurner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Welcome to my world where i don't naively know or use only one type of OS/Platform. Why limit yourself? There are pros and cons for all things. Soon all things will be virtualized anyway. I mean who runs just one os anymore? Besides the real platform is the modern internet browser, not the OS.
- cotaskmemalloc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not a particularly impressive list, sorry.
- gplpedia, on 12/16/2008, -0/+1Open Source Demon
http://digg.com/software/1000_Open_Source_Software ... - ekravchenko, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2nice, the pdf tools are pretty useful
- realityiswhere, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Depends on which coding language the source code is in for each individual app. Of course we can go in and edit the source code, but porting code line for line from a native windows coding language to a language for any of the other hundreds of linux distro is not something fun to do.
- RogueJediX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why does it list Pidgin twice?
- KraftDinner101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1How is OpenOffice Not on that list?
- raynevandunem, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not open source.
Neither is foobar nor kazaa.
But yeah, this list is crap. - xmrkkr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1There are plenty of Tools, some kind of rating in each category would have helped in picking up the best.
- acnx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Nice list of good quality resources.I've added some open source-resources regarding networking here :
http://axtmag.com/2007/09/24/more-open-source-reso ... -
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