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Top Ten Open Source Projects

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-makes-you-happy dept.

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.

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  1. Ummmmmmm.....? by diamondmagic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linux?

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    Wonder what the public key field is for?
    1. Re:Ummmmmmm.....? by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If that was the case, why would xVid, Firefox, openoffice, GIMP, and dyne:bolic be listed? They're hardly websites now are they. Really seems they've missed some bloody damn obvious ones (like Linux, d'uh, or Eclipse) or they've just knocked up some spacefiller article for a newspaper that doesn't know or care about the subject.

  2. dyne:bolic? by md81544 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    dyne:bolic

    "Dyne:bolic is a multimedia studio on a CD that you simply pop into any computer and start it up, instantly turning it into a Linux/GNU [sic] system"

    Why not Knoppix??? Granted, this is more specialised towards creative people, but it never figures on my top ten, whereas Knoppix would do.

  3. Eclipse by thammoud · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would have to say that Eclipse is one of the most important open source projects out there. Thousands of developers use the Eclipse IDE for day to day developement of enterprise Java applications.

  4. GNU/Linux Foundation? by xcomm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think without the GNU foundation framework (compiler, libraries, shell etc.) and the Linux Kernel there would be nothing with FOSS. Without all the foundation under the the GPL there would be nothing to build on for the other prograsms.

    BTW: Where the hell is LAMP in the top 10? Apache would be nothing without Perl, PHP, Phyton, MySQL or PostGresSQL.

  5. Linux huh? by juergen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    By many Linux (the kernel) is seen as *the* prototypical OS project, yet it is missing here.

    Oth, I didn't even recognize dyne:bolic without reading the description. And including Outfoxed, while they even admit it is not an OS project per se, shows they were just scrambling to find any 10 points to fill the list and space on their site. Clueless.

  6. GCC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    GCC should be on this list. After all, without GCC, the vast majority of the others would not be possible.