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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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  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. Re:"this list isn't strictly software projects" by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about the Bible, Quran and Torah?

    Hm yes, let's change some of the texts in those books. I'm sure it'll go down well with the readers.

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  4. Strictly software... by Noryungi · · Score: 5, Informative
    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.
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  5. KDE by m50d · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It looks great, it's ridiculously customizable, and it's relatively easy to get involved in development. I think it really shows off the advantages of OSS.

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