Open Source Projects That You Should Know About?

cosyne asks: "Seeing the recent announcement about FreeS/WAN reminds me that there are many cool projects that I'm mostly unaware of (or, more often, completely oblivious to), which I only hear about when Slashdot posts a 'Developers finally giving up on this cool project' story. What projects (software or otherwise) are out there that would benefit from more involvement if only they had the publicity?"

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Eerie

[Mmm coffee]

I can see tumbleweeds rolling through this thread. Too "Just woke up" to link, google for this stuff. xfce - Nice little window manager for X, a slight hassle to build but otherwise a great WM for those who want something that screams "minimalist". If only they'd allow me to shove the menubar into the taskbar so I don't have to have two bars on autohide then I'd be using it right now. Ruby - Goddamn, this is a wonderful language! It's as close to "I think, it does" as you can get without having neural implants. That's about all that I can think of. Ignoring the usual (gaim, etc) because they're very well known.

Open Music Registry

[SnakeStu]

This isn't open source software, but copyleft applied to music... The Open Music Registry is an interactive database of music that is licensed under copyleft-style licenses, including the Open Audio License, one of the Creative Commons licenses, and more. Follow the link in my signature to check it out.

(Not that anybody will probably see this now... not sure what's up with this story and its lack of visibility...)

For small office/home networks

[j()nty]

...which is where I do most of my work.

• dnsmasq - A DHCP+DNS server that is simple to configure, lets you set up names for local machines and local services, lets you block external names of your choice, etc, etc
• masqmail - A mail server for machines with intermittent connections to the internet (dialup, laptops, wireless)
• Xmail - A slightly bigger mail server for when you want to run your own domain. Linux and Windows.
• Icewm - The window manager for people who want to get their work done
• Bluefish - Text/HTML/Perl/PHP/Java/etc editor that just works.

a few more

[smartalecvt]

Lilypond: A great open source music notation program.

Cinepaint: Painting and retouching.

CDex: CD Ripper and converter.

Panda 3d: 3D rendering engine.

Mambo: Content management

Gordian Knot:DivX/XviD encoding

Helix: Media player

7 Zip: Zip

Re:Here's Mine

[The Angry Mick]

There's a typo in the link, here's the right one.