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Top Ten Open Source Projects
arclightfire writes "We recently wrote an article for The Independent listing the top ten open source projects. It was hard getting the list down to ten, but we did; here's the top ten - Wikipedia, Firefox, Open Office, Bittorrent, MediaWiki, Xvid, pbb, Outfoxed, dyne:bolic, GIMP, Apache and SourceForge." What would you call your favorite projects? Obviously, this list isn't strictly software projects, so be creative.
It's about "...best open source websites where users can change the content" and not best open source projects. It comes that even posters don't RTFA.
Some that aren't in the list but I use regularly.
I suppose the kernel has got to feature in the list because without it a lot of other projects are fairly pointless. I like NetBeans (although it's giving me grief today). Amarok is pretty good (but is let down by the poor state of sound on Linux). KMail is very nice especially as part of Kontact. Synaptic is a very nice project that seems to be coming along well.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
Of course, number 11 is Google, Google, and Google. But that's neither software nor open-source.
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
i would say because dyne:bolic is more 'multimedia-oriented' than knoppix, which is still fairly generic/general purpose.
.. this is important in this day of "iWhatever" style apps being churned out by the big-nerds, so i'd wager thats why dyne:bolic is being pitched, in lieu of knoppix.
.. but its certainly not the first, nor the last, linux-booting liveCD with productivity tools on it (far as i can remember, yggdrasil was first..)
with dyne:bolic, any PC becomes a multimedia production studio in a heartbeat (well, bootup, anyway), and you really can get to creating with it fast and easily
which isn't to say knoppix isn't cool
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Well, although its just a JRE, I find that Eclipse runs fine using the blackdown JRE. I haven't developed using the blackdown sdk, but I'd consider running eclipse just fine at least one point in favor of blackdown's usabiliy as a Java environment.
Secondly, Eclipse is more than a Java IDE. It has so many damn plugins it literally is a swiss army knife, albeit a bloated one. I personally use pydev for eclipse as my python editor.
The actual list is a mixture of free software projects, and user editable web sites. At least reading the description, it often seems to refer to the software, not the web-site. Despite what the blurp in the article claims.
Both Wikipedia and MediaWiki is on the list.
dyne:bolic is interesting because it's one of the few completely Free OSs, without a bit of proprietary code in sight. Its default desktop is WindowMaker, too.
WeRelate.org - wiki-based genealogy
While the parent humbly admits that he's not an expert or theologian, I must admit that I am. And his father taught him well; everything he says is accurate concerning the linguistic history of the Bible. Except that I would say it is a certainty that all our oldest texts from which we translate the Bible into various languages are copies. Anti-*nix OS Troll-boy who started this Bible thread should not be modded insightful. Where are my meta-mod points....
Because knoppix sucks in comparison to more modern efforts. It's just going on the name these days. dyne:bolic has better state saving, and actually focuses on and does something better than windows (multimedia), rather than giving you basically a worse equivalent to the OS you're already running.
I am trolling
Well, weren't they all the same project originally? St Paul forked the Torah, and then Mohammed did the same a few centuries later? They're still open-source, then.
Personally, I'd want someone to go in and fix some of the more dangerous exploits in the code. The bit about 'while I'm not around, kids, please obey my official representative, MR BLACK! I'll be coming along real soon now, but for now here's MR BLACK!' has got to be sorted out.
Oh, and a there are a good few bugs related to conflicting definitions early on in the codebase. The scope of 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' and the scope of 'Kill all the unbelievers in the land I have given to you' really need to be more clearly defined.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Nice... I would expect this from both sides of the political movements...but from the technology movement... OutFoxed should not be included in this line up. Sure it is an opensource project but would a similar project about CNN have gotten in the top 10... doubtful...
This choice seems to not really be about "opensource" but rather a way to get the Outfoxed onto Slashdot...cheap
In the future, leave your petty political agendas out of a "TECHNOLOGY" top ten list.
How can a Java IDE be one of the most important Open Source projects when there is no usable Open Source Java implementation available?
Eclipse runs very nicely with GCJ thank you very much.
:wq!