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.

Comments

Re:Ummmmmmm.....?

[oneiros27]

It would be one of the top open source projects, but it seems that the blurb posted on slashdot, and the actual article don't match. The article states:

Ana Kronschnabl and Tomas Rawlings pick the best open source websites where users can change the content

Which of course ... would be open content, not open source. (unless the users can change the code used to drive the websites, perhaps).

Re:RTFA

[BenjyD]

But how can I change the content on http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/? I would guess that there was a confusion between the author and whoever wrote the summary at the Indy. Another reason for the "Independent isn't a serious newspaper any more" pile, perhaps?

Strictly software...

[Noryungi]

Watch out, since this is heavily sysadmin biased...

1. Slackware Linux. Still the best after all this time.
2. OpenBSD. Just because you are paranoid does not mean they are not out there trying to get you.
3. OpenSSH. Because you just can't use plain text telnet anymore.
4. Rsync. Just because.
5. GNU Screen. Triple your terminal productivity. Now with minty-fresh taste!
6. GNU Wget. Because you have better thing to do than watch over a download.
7. Vim.Because Emacs is for losers.
8. Nmap. Look at 'OpenBSD' above.
9. IPTables. Lock that machine down, admin boy.
10. pf. I said, lock that machine down , admin boy!

Of course, number 11 is Google, Google, and Google. But that's neither software nor open-source.