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Ditto. I visit http://freecode.com/ daily to see its new/updated stuff. What other opensource software web site that will let us do that?

At freecode.com they have a few tools regarding language. It's a public release site and not just whatever someone is working on at the moment. The uploader allows people to specify which language something is in. There's a link to those counts and then to projects in those languages right on the front page of the site. However, it's often helpful to know with which languages things are meant to interoperate or process, too. Freshmeat... err, Freecode allows one to search projects. There are counts there different from the "implementation language" set for the projects.

http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 2416
http://freecode.com/search?q=C... 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q='... also 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 3967
http://freecode.com/search?q=R... 402
http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 1920
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 921

I'm not sure if searches for "Java" include "JavaScript" or if the search box is smarter than that. It seems to lump C and C++ together.

At freecode.com they have a few tools regarding language. It's a public release site and not just whatever someone is working on at the moment. The uploader allows people to specify which language something is in. There's a link to those counts and then to projects in those languages right on the front page of the site. However, it's often helpful to know with which languages things are meant to interoperate or process, too. Freshmeat... err, Freecode allows one to search projects. There are counts there different from the "implementation language" set for the projects.

http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 2416
http://freecode.com/search?q=C... 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q='... also 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 3967
http://freecode.com/search?q=R... 402
http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 1920
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 921

I'm not sure if searches for "Java" include "JavaScript" or if the search box is smarter than that. It seems to lump C and C++ together.

At freecode.com they have a few tools regarding language. It's a public release site and not just whatever someone is working on at the moment. The uploader allows people to specify which language something is in. There's a link to those counts and then to projects in those languages right on the front page of the site. However, it's often helpful to know with which languages things are meant to interoperate or process, too. Freshmeat... err, Freecode allows one to search projects. There are counts there different from the "implementation language" set for the projects.

http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 2416
http://freecode.com/search?q=C... 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q='... also 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 3967
http://freecode.com/search?q=R... 402
http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 1920
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 921

I'm not sure if searches for "Java" include "JavaScript" or if the search box is smarter than that. It seems to lump C and C++ together.

At freecode.com they have a few tools regarding language. It's a public release site and not just whatever someone is working on at the moment. The uploader allows people to specify which language something is in. There's a link to those counts and then to projects in those languages right on the front page of the site. However, it's often helpful to know with which languages things are meant to interoperate or process, too. Freshmeat... err, Freecode allows one to search projects. There are counts there different from the "implementation language" set for the projects.

http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 2416
http://freecode.com/search?q=C... 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q='... also 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 3967
http://freecode.com/search?q=R... 402
http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 1920
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 921

I'm not sure if searches for "Java" include "JavaScript" or if the search box is smarter than that. It seems to lump C and C++ together.

At freecode.com they have a few tools regarding language. It's a public release site and not just whatever someone is working on at the moment. The uploader allows people to specify which language something is in. There's a link to those counts and then to projects in those languages right on the front page of the site. However, it's often helpful to know with which languages things are meant to interoperate or process, too. Freshmeat... err, Freecode allows one to search projects. There are counts there different from the "implementation language" set for the projects.

http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 2416
http://freecode.com/search?q=C... 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q='... also 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 3967
http://freecode.com/search?q=R... 402
http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 1920
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 921

I'm not sure if searches for "Java" include "JavaScript" or if the search box is smarter than that. It seems to lump C and C++ together.

At freecode.com they have a few tools regarding language. It's a public release site and not just whatever someone is working on at the moment. The uploader allows people to specify which language something is in. There's a link to those counts and then to projects in those languages right on the front page of the site. However, it's often helpful to know with which languages things are meant to interoperate or process, too. Freshmeat... err, Freecode allows one to search projects. There are counts there different from the "implementation language" set for the projects.

http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 2416
http://freecode.com/search?q=C... 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q='... also 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 3967
http://freecode.com/search?q=R... 402
http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 1920
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 921

I'm not sure if searches for "Java" include "JavaScript" or if the search box is smarter than that. It seems to lump C and C++ together.

At freecode.com they have a few tools regarding language. It's a public release site and not just whatever someone is working on at the moment. The uploader allows people to specify which language something is in. There's a link to those counts and then to projects in those languages right on the front page of the site. However, it's often helpful to know with which languages things are meant to interoperate or process, too. Freshmeat... err, Freecode allows one to search projects. There are counts there different from the "implementation language" set for the projects.

http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 2416
http://freecode.com/search?q=C... 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q='... also 3632
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 3967
http://freecode.com/search?q=R... 402
http://freecode.com/search?q=P... 1920
http://freecode.com/search?q=J... 921

I'm not sure if searches for "Java" include "JavaScript" or if the search box is smarter than that. It seems to lump C and C++ together.

Nope - this one: http://freecode.com/projects/t... Still exists; but last time I tried I had trouble getting it working.

ftwin is a command line tool, when built with libpuzzle, able to generate a signature for each image and detect duplicates (including resized/sliightly modified). Link: http://freecode.com/projects/f... Disclaimer: I'm the author and don't maintain it actively :-P

My experience was a while ago; I'm not sure what all's been deprecated in newer kernels, as I've been using framebuffer consoles for years. For a while, I found the framebuffer console unbearably slow, but after I discovered how to enable acceleration in vesafb, it wasn't real bad.

But AFAIK, the recipe is still to somehow boot your system up in VGA text mode, any text mode (I'd have said "vga=normal" was a good start... that deprecation message is new to me, but google suggests using "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text", so maybe search for that), then use svgatextmode to twiddle stuff. If your initial text mode has the right number of columns, and a suitable number of lines, you don't even need any of the drivers to work -- you can just change it from 16-line font (for 80x25) to an 8-line font (you get 80x50), without changing any timing info. There's also a limited selection of somewhat-extended modes that will work on any VGA-compatible card, by using the various graphics mode clocks in text mode.

More advanced modes (like my 160x100) require support for setting arbitrary dot-clocks instead of using the predefined ones, and that will require identifying a driver that works, then possibly some PCI ID hackery to make it use that driver. But if all you want is 80x50, that part's unneeded.

Yea verily, every large software system that works was made from small software systems that worked. Since they have to trash this one, why not have a look at http://freecode.com/projects/openemr

LaTeX to bystroTeX should be easy, although I do not yet have a working converter. BystroTeX produces HTML. The syntax of bystroTeX is Racket Scribble, it is very similar to LaTeX so writing a converter should be more or less straightforward.

LaTeX to bystroTeX should be easy, although I do not yet have a working converter. BystroTeX produces HTML. The syntax of bystroTeX is Racket Scribble, it is very similar to LaTeX so writing a converter should be more or less straightforward.

Support your local open source project: http://freecode.com/projects/fuckthensa

from their website:

"FuckTheNSA is a binary-to-text encoding and decoding tool. The encoded data is an ASCII-string, 8 times bigger than the source data, and consists purely of anti-NSA profanity. It encodes any 8-bit byte sequences."

Sooooo much funnier too.

I think you're confusing it with a derived tool.

So instead of WINE the environment emulator, the article is talking about WINE's less talked about feature, WinAPI emulation via a shared library (not unlike nt2unix, windu or Willows Twin).

I've actually used products like this before. It isn't much different than using libC instead of the native OS API. It makes porting from Windows to Unix so much easier. The only performance cost is the thunk to the emulated API. But if you want to port your Windows app to a big iron server (POWER or Sparc), it is the way to go.

..rat poison ?

That's a window manager not a web browser.

http://freecode.com/projects/ratpoison

Although using rat poison and MS Office both make me want to vomit.

Perceptual Image Diff and Find Image Dupes might be helpful. If she runs finddupes with a threshhold of .99 or so, then it is likely just trigger on nearly exact copies. At least, it should narrow down the ones she has to inspect in more detail. On the other hand, pdiff will detect exact or nearly exact copies by specifying how many pixels are allowed to differ (so it can be fooled by addition of random noise). While pdiff is available for Windows as well as Linux, it seems that finddupes is Linux only.

Hello ledow,
please have a look at https://freecode.com/projects/abuledu or https://www.ohloh.net/p/abuledu-leterrier/ or https://www.ohloh.net/p/abuledu-leterrier/enlistments

i'm not alone but yes i'm the leader of this distribution for primary schools since 1998

in 1998 we started without any money, in 2000 i was a one-man company, called rycks (it was my nickname since university) and in 2003 i've setting up a free software company called ryxeo and we hire 6 people who works on educational free software

i don't want to change or find another career, education is a vocation for us, okay we could do better and nicer, with the help of 26 buyers and all the others we would go on and "change the world" (we hope) for our childrens, far away from DRM and other non free software

Thanks,
Éric

Word War vi is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up '80s style arcade game. You pilot your "vi"per craft through core memory, rescuing lost .swp files, avoiding OS defenses, and wiping out those memory hogging emacs processes. When all the lost .swp files are rescued, head for the socket which will take you to the next node in the cluster.

So many people here are assuming they understand your requirements better than you do, and those are the ones who could successfully parse TFS.

I run an opensource stack in-house because I need to customize what it does for my needs. None of the hosted products would work for me, and software freedom isn't something I throw under the bus for short-term gain. Currently it's a postfix/MailScanner/SpamAssassin/sqlgrey/dovecot/sasl/davical/asterisk/freepbx stack, but I've also never seen Sogo before, so thanks for linking that. I've been meaning to integrate Fumambol/SyncML and that does it built-in, so cool.

The other product I've considered is formerly-BBS-software Citadel, but I'm sufficiently suspicious of monolithic software to have not tried it out in production (the Unix way seems better). Sogo does more, though, so that raises the activation energy a bit.

On the phones side, I'm looking to replace the FreePBX system because it's increasingly buggy as new versions come out. There was a good interview with the 2600Hz folks on FLOSS Weekly recently about Kazoo. Their docs are very targeted towards a cloud-hosted version, which is fine, but I also haven't put in the energy yet to do a local install without docs. But it's on my very short-term list.

They seem to be headed in the right direction at least. Intergrating Sogo with Kazoo might be a nice direction and it doesn't seem like either community would be adverse.

Grandstream phones have the best bang for the buck, but aren't always quirk-free. That said, with a few tweaks they're very reliable and very cheap compared to Avaya. Their better models also embed linux, so I like to support them with my cash for doing so.

Have a look at Qi Hardware's NanoNote. It seems like it it fit the bill pretty well, especially if you pair it with TuxBrain's Universal Breakout Board (a small breakout board that plugs into the NanoNote's MicroSD port).

I've bought two NanoNotes for use as portable music players (one for me, one for my wife). We've been running MPD + ncmpc on them (which makes it convenient to either browse or search for songs), along with smart auto-DJ (which means that you can just pick a song to start with, and it'll automatically keep the play-queue filled with appropriate-sounding songs), for the past two years or so.

Running just on the commodity battery that fits inside, we've found that they'll run for at least 8 hours; but they also support the addition of small external battery that'll get you another ~30 hours.

http://freecode.com/projects/fdupe -- perl. Only finds exact duplicates, and I haven't used it against more than 200'000 files and 2TB.

Finding this took less than 5 seconds: OpenGrade

ASCII did just fine for this one.

Except when stuff like this comes out: http://freecode.com/articles/ubuntu-new-apt-packages-fix-security-vulnerabilities-3 [freecode.com]

Ubuntu bug: Bug reported 22nd September and closed the same day.

Microsoft bug: attacks on MD5 widely known and carried out since 2005, but Microsoft still carry on using it in Windows Update until 2012.

No one should dismiss the likelihood of rogus developers submitting changes to key components of popular distros like Ubuntu to exploit. Combined with a MITM attack, your Ubuntu system is owned. This is one reason I no longer use Ubuntu.

Do you have any evidence that this was the action of a rogue developer? By your logic, you must no longer use a computer, as the "rogue" developer issue is one that potentially affects all software.

Except when stuff like this comes out: http://freecode.com/articles/ubuntu-new-apt-packages-fix-security-vulnerabilities-3

No one should dismiss the likelihood of rogus developers submitting changes to key components of popular distros like Ubuntu to exploit. Combined with a MITM attack, your Ubuntu system is owned. This is one reason I no longer use Ubuntu. This news also appeared on Slashdot, but it's mysteriously disappeared since then (this is where I originally heard about it).

Freshmeat record: http://freecode.com/projects/balsaasync
Site: http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/tools/balsa/
Also useful: http://apt.cs.man.ac.uk/projects/tools/lard/

I thought I would share some info with you about how one team did this, what was cutting edge work at the time.
Not that I am saying you should use these tools although it seems they are one possibility.

Here are links related to a quite interesting software project developed by Christophe Mertz and others at CENA.

The Digistrips system was a user interface prototype demonstration system written in Perl for the design of new touch screen based air traffic controller systems that mimic the traditional system in which paper strips are used to represent aircraft in flight. The demonstration is said to have been successful, and there are a number of papers written about user interaction in the system.

It used Ivy (a cross platform message bus in Perl) and TkZinc (an OpenGL and 2d capable canvas).

Below are numerous links to papers and software sites although the openatc.org website is no longer in service itself. It is possible to download Ivy and TkZinc it seems.

keywords: cena france french aircraft controller prototype perl perl-anim gui prototyping tk-zinc opengl perl strips

Ivy Software Bus
http://www2.tls.cena.fr/products/ivy/
http://freecode.com/projects/ivy
http://www2.tls.cena.fr/products/ivy/download/desc/ivy-perl-deb.html
Ivy is a simple protocol and a set of open-source (LGPL) libraries and programs that allows applications to broadcast information through text messages, with a subscription mechanism based on regular expressions. Ivy libraries are available in C, C++, Java, Python and Perl, on Windows and Unix boxes and on Macs. Several Ivy utilities and hardware drivers are available too.
Ivy is currently used in research projects in the air traffic control and human-computer interaction research communities as well as in commercial products. It is also taught to CS students.

http://wiki.tcl.tk/9246
Christophe Mertz

Zinc.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~zincdev/tk-zinc-3.303/Zinc.pm
Patrick Lecoanet

http://search.cpan.org/~cmertz/svg-svg2zinc-0.05/svg2zinc.pl
though openatc.org is down.

TkZinc
http://www.tkzinc.org/tkzinc/index.php
http://freecode.com/projects/zincisnotcanvas
http://wiki.tcl.tk/2798
TkZinc is a Tk widget developed with Perl/Tk, Tcl/Tk and Python/Tk bindings. TkZinc widgets are very similar to Tk canvases in that they support structured graphics. Graphical items can be manipulated, and bindings can be associated with them to implement interaction behaviors. But unlike the canvas, TkZinc can structure the items in a hierarchy, and has support for affine 2D transforms. Clipping can be set for sub-trees of the item hierarchy and the item set is quite more powerful, including field-specific items for Air Traffic systems. TkZinc is fast enough to allow the implementation of 2k2k radar displays with smooth animations. It is structured enough to allow the implementation of direct manipulation desktop GUIs.

Since the 3.2.2 version, TkZinc also offers as a runtime option, support for openGL rendering, giving access to features such as antialiasing, transparency, color gradients and even a new, openGL oriented, item type : triangles. In order to use the openGL features, you need the support of the GLX extension on your X11 server.

Zinc Is Not Canvas!
Tkzinc has been developped at CENA to help building experimental user interfaces for Air Traffic Control. Tkzinc is a Tk widget, with Tcl, Perl/Tk, and Python/Tkinter bindings. Tkzinc is available as open source under the GNU Les

I thought I would share some info with you about how one team did this, what was cutting edge work at the time.
Not that I am saying you should use these tools although it seems they are one possibility.

Here are links related to a quite interesting software project developed by Christophe Mertz and others at CENA.

The Digistrips system was a user interface prototype demonstration system written in Perl for the design of new touch screen based air traffic controller systems that mimic the traditional system in which paper strips are used to represent aircraft in flight. The demonstration is said to have been successful, and there are a number of papers written about user interaction in the system.

It used Ivy (a cross platform message bus in Perl) and TkZinc (an OpenGL and 2d capable canvas).

Below are numerous links to papers and software sites although the openatc.org website is no longer in service itself. It is possible to download Ivy and TkZinc it seems.

keywords: cena france french aircraft controller prototype perl perl-anim gui prototyping tk-zinc opengl perl strips

Ivy Software Bus
http://www2.tls.cena.fr/products/ivy/
http://freecode.com/projects/ivy
http://www2.tls.cena.fr/products/ivy/download/desc/ivy-perl-deb.html
Ivy is a simple protocol and a set of open-source (LGPL) libraries and programs that allows applications to broadcast information through text messages, with a subscription mechanism based on regular expressions. Ivy libraries are available in C, C++, Java, Python and Perl, on Windows and Unix boxes and on Macs. Several Ivy utilities and hardware drivers are available too.
Ivy is currently used in research projects in the air traffic control and human-computer interaction research communities as well as in commercial products. It is also taught to CS students.

http://wiki.tcl.tk/9246
Christophe Mertz

Zinc.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~zincdev/tk-zinc-3.303/Zinc.pm
Patrick Lecoanet

http://search.cpan.org/~cmertz/svg-svg2zinc-0.05/svg2zinc.pl
though openatc.org is down.

TkZinc
http://www.tkzinc.org/tkzinc/index.php
http://freecode.com/projects/zincisnotcanvas
http://wiki.tcl.tk/2798
TkZinc is a Tk widget developed with Perl/Tk, Tcl/Tk and Python/Tk bindings. TkZinc widgets are very similar to Tk canvases in that they support structured graphics. Graphical items can be manipulated, and bindings can be associated with them to implement interaction behaviors. But unlike the canvas, TkZinc can structure the items in a hierarchy, and has support for affine 2D transforms. Clipping can be set for sub-trees of the item hierarchy and the item set is quite more powerful, including field-specific items for Air Traffic systems. TkZinc is fast enough to allow the implementation of 2k2k radar displays with smooth animations. It is structured enough to allow the implementation of direct manipulation desktop GUIs.

Since the 3.2.2 version, TkZinc also offers as a runtime option, support for openGL rendering, giving access to features such as antialiasing, transparency, color gradients and even a new, openGL oriented, item type : triangles. In order to use the openGL features, you need the support of the GLX extension on your X11 server.

Zinc Is Not Canvas!
Tkzinc has been developped at CENA to help building experimental user interfaces for Air Traffic Control. Tkzinc is a Tk widget, with Tcl, Perl/Tk, and Python/Tkinter bindings. Tkzinc is available as open source under the GNU Les

I agree with but since no one seemed to have any answers for this person... I have not used these but they seem to be options a Dreamweaver replacement. NVU http://net2.com/nvu/ Quanta Plus http://freecode.com/projects/quantaplus Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ Blue Griffon http://bluegriffon.org/ Hope this helps the original poster. Oh and if you just want free as in beer. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express I have used any of them but out of this is you will probably find something that will fill the bill.

I hadn't heard of Blue Griffon, so I looked it up and found that it is made by the same guy who made Nvu all those years ago. Nvu hasn't been updated for over 6 years, so as a result the community forked it and it became KompoZer. Now, though, KompoZer hasn't been updated in almost 2 years. The other options don't appear to be faring much better on the release front. It looks like Blue Griffon might be the way to go at the moment.

LWATCDR posted:

I agree with but since no one seemed to have any answers for this person... I have not used these but they seem to be options a Dreamweaver replacement. NVU http://net2.com/nvu/ Quanta Plus http://freecode.com/projects/quantaplus Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ Blue Griffon http://bluegriffon.org/ Hope this helps the original poster. Oh and if you just want free as in beer. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express I have used any of them but out of this is you will probably find something that will fill the bill.

Good of you to actually address the OP's question. However:

NVU - only useful for sites hosted by the program's vendor.

Quanta Plus - only runs on Linux (DW is a Mac/Windows application).

Amaya - hasn't been updated since 2009, and it's utterly broken in many respects (can't cut-and-paste tables, for instance).

Blue Griffon - shows promise. I haven't used it, so I don't know how well it works, but at least it's currently under development. Otoh, it's still in beta, it's "free to download" - which means they plan to charge some unknown amount for the commercial release version - and it has a bunch of add-ons that are NOT free, and do not appear to be OS.

Visual Web Studio Express - is a Windows application. OP may well be working in a Mac environment. Also, resulting HTML is likely bloatacious and nearly impossible to hand-tune.

I agree with but since no one seemed to have any answers for this person...
I have not used these but they seem to be options a Dreamweaver replacement.
NVU http://net2.com/nvu/
Quanta Plus http://freecode.com/projects/quantaplus
Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Blue Griffon http://bluegriffon.org/
Hope this helps the original poster.
Oh and if you just want free as in beer.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express
I have used any of them but out of this is you will probably find something that will fill the bill.

I had a look at your link. Sorting by Popularity or Vitality shows a truly depressing perspective of FOSS gaming.

Apparently the most popular "games" in the database include things like a volleyball league management database, a character generation package for D&D 3rd edition which appears to lack support for _any_ character options outside the original core books (and is obsolete by 1.5 editions), compatibility frameworks & emulators to allow Linux users to play old commercial games originally written for commercial platforms (e.g. DOSBox, Nintendo emulators), game development tools of varying levels of name recognition (Blender I recognise. The "arianne" multiplayer online engine, not so much.), derivative clones of commercial games such as FreeCiv, and an ugly implementation of one of the worst board games ever (Risk). There is actually only *1* original game, Vega Strike, in the entire "top 10 most popular projects", and it doesn't exactly look like a blockbuster!

The "most vital" "games" includes a spell compendium database for AD&D second edition (which is now a nearly twenty-five-year old tabletop RPG, played only by a tiny community of grognards).

If that's the best Linux and BSD can do, I'm not surprised that people cite the quality and variety of entertainment software on commercial platforms as a major drawcard for those platforms.

From most of the posts it looks like Microsoft's investment in PC gaming has payed off. Despite hundreds of games capable of running natively on Linux, BSD, and OSX big highly marketed games keep people chained to the Windows platform.

From wikipedia:

"NTRU is an asymmetric (public/private key) cryptosystem. It has two characteristics that make it interesting as an alternative to RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography; speed and quantum computing resistance. There are two NTRU based algorithms: NTRUEncrypt and NTRUSign.

Because it is based on different mathematics (lattice-based cryptography) from RSA and ECC, the NTRU algorithm has different cryptographic properties. At comparable cryptographic strength, NTRU performs costly private key operations much much faster than RSA. In addition, NTRU's comparative performance increases with the level of security required. As key sizes increase by n, RSA's operations/second decrease at n3 whereas NTRU's decrease at n2."

open source java implementation of ntru:
http://ntru.sourceforge.net/

Cyassl - an openssl replacement that supports ntru
http://freecode.com/projects/cyassl

It looks like the time may draw near. Having said that, I bloody well hope not: I hope Slashdot spending is in line and they're a lean machine that won't be next on the block.

Then, Taco reposts a story about a 'universal remote control' that timothy posted on Saturday (it's still listed on the front page of slashdot over on the right).

Then, Taco posts this very obvious press release/advertisement about a small form-factor PC and slashdots the poor manufacturer's web site. I guess that's what you get for advertising on slashdot when you run IIS.

Does this have anything to do with OSDN's recent decision to close FreeCode? I guess I would be a little jittery if my parent company closed down one of its subsidiaries. Of course, that wouldn't qualify as "News for nerds. Stuff that matters" as much as the CappucinoPC press release, so that won't be posted today.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi

FreeCode an OSND site is no more.

As of today, August 30, 2002, OSDN will cease operation of Freecode.com. The decision to do so is based on a content strategy that will help OSDN provide better, more focused editorial for its readership within the high tech and developer community.

OSDN will continue to produce Slashdot, Linux.com, NewsForge, Geocrawler, freshmeat.net, SourceForge.net, and MediaBuilder and will continue its e-commerce offering on ThinkGeek. You can visit these sites at http://osdn.com.

We thank you for your readership and loyalty to OSDN.

Sincerely, The Editorial Team at OSDN

Another one bites the dust.

Another one bites the dust.

Another one bites the dust.

OSDN closed today FreeCode, one of their sites. /. rejected the story about it... what do you think about this? Is /. the next one closing the door?

Hmm another funny thing is when you go to Freecode.com, a member of the OSDN network it says "Sponsored By: Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET".

Another Andover site that's still around is one of the earliest online free code archives -- freecode.com.

Nobody ever "heard of" Andover back in those days because each of the company's original sites was treated as a separate entity and we never pushed the "network" thing. But we were there, doing our little thing and having a nice, low-key time. :)

- Robin

Actually, there's a neat little SSI-type API for Java on freecode.com that works quite well for this; you just form a link like this:
<a href="/servlet/ServletName?sesid=&lt!--#echo var="sessionid"--&gt"&gtlink&gt/a&gt
Check out the package (it's GPLed!) at http://www.freecode.com/cgi-bin /viewproduct.pl?8543.

There is much out there for you.
There are some PHP and Perl.
Most require an SQL server but some (like mine) do not.

The issues to look at how much load do you want to handle, how much power do you want and how complex are you willing to put up with.

Slashcode is very powerful and handles the load quite nicely but isn't very easy...

You said power isn't an issue so there is likely to be a good system that handles the load and is very easy.

My own code is very powerful and very easy but with a load it gose up and down like a yoyo... It's also still in dev...
Not the sort of thing you want on a tech support page.

Check out Freashmeat, Linux Directory, Free Code, and Hot Scripts

What's wrong with that? In the "pure" Open Source business model, for-profit companies are living on the backs of the community. They need to give a little back in order to have any cred.

Even on the journalistic side, everybody at Slashdot (including me) did a lot of FREE writing and reporting before making any money at it, and Andover.net quietly ran the freecode.com site long before most of the other Open Source code indexes and repositories came along.

As far as employing "known figures," I doubt that Bruce is thinking "known" in the "heavily quoted" sense. I can think of many excellent developers and project organizers who get little or no public attention but are respected by kernel maintainers and other free software developers. I'm sure Bruce would consider these unsung ones to be valid hires for a company that wanted to make a splash in the Linux or Open Source world.

If you came up with a better package management system, you would be a "known" developer as soon as three other people tried it and liked it, whether they found out about your product through an RPM mailing list or through a company you set up to distribute your work. The point is that you would have *done something* instead of purely riding on others' backs.

And VA Linux? They actually *do* somthing. They have Linux-based hardware products you can order and have delivered, and they "give back" to the community in many ways both visible and invisible without directly asking for anything in return.

It's a fine edge, isn't it?

But then, I'm an old-fashioned person who believes it's better to earn your money by working hard than by selling chaff as wheat, so maybe I'm not the best person to listen to on this subject; my attitude is obviously not in tune with current financial and stock market thinking.

- Robin