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SourceForge's Hottest Five Apps

Posted by kdawson on from the top-of-the-heap dept.

davidmwilliams points us to his story up on IT Wire about the top five most active open source projects on SourceForge. (Sourceforge.net and Slashdot are both owned by SourceForge Inc.) He writes, "It explains what they do and why they're useful. Most of these will be new to most people but all are definitely bursting with potential."

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  1. Re:Well this is stupid by bluelip · · Score: 3, Informative

    Before trashing the article, read it. The very azureus you complain wasn't mentioned, was the #1 hottest project.

    RTFA, DA.

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  2. Re:OSS P2P by LWATCDR · · Score: 3, Informative

    "I guess you wouldn't necessarily need to download software via P2P if it was actually free to begin with."
    Actually yes you do. Things like Linux ISOs are BIG. And not every distribution has the luxury of deep pockets for band width.
    Even distros like Fedora offer torrents of the ISOs the save bandwidth and to speed up downloads.
    I have only used bit torrent to download Linux ISOs.

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  3. nothing new by asabjorn · · Score: 3, Informative

    For me Datamations list was much more interesting since they spend time digging up new and upcoming projects I did not know about like kdenlive (kind of like the Diva video editor, but not a dead project). http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/ 3678071

  4. Most useful from SF by tkdtaylor · · Score: 3, Informative

    The one program I always download from SF is filezilla (client) and recently I set up the server version to replace the broken default IIS FTP server.
    Both client and server are working great, highly recommended free open source FTP client and server.

    1. Re:Most useful from SF by J0nne · · Score: 3, Informative

      TugZip isn't open source, even though it's an excellent app, especially since it opens pretty much any archive type.

  5. Re:SourceForge Too Big And Now Not Supported by _xeno_ · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problem is you can't cancel projects. I know I've got a few projects on SourceForge that I never intend to do anything with. One of them even has some code.

    In any case, I've long since lost both the password for that SourceForge account and no longer have access to the email address I used to create it, so those projects will remain forever, clogging up SourceForge despite the fact that they're long dead.

    I don't think SourceForge should just delete dead projects, but it would be nice if they'd move them into a "SourceForge Archive" or something after a project fails to see any activity or downloads for, say, a year. Leave them accessible, but stop returning them in searches unless a "search archives" option is set.

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  6. Re:SourceForge Too Big And Now Not Supported by anomalous+cohort · · Score: 4, Informative

    Having fought with their CVS implementation for a few weeks

    I recently started a project over at sourceforge and I think that what they provide is really great. They give you all kinds of features like forums, news, trackers, and web site statistics via RSS. They will host a web site to promote your project. That hosting includes the ability to run a web application written in perl and access to your own database on a MySql server. With that much capability, I implemented the project web site using the source code of the project itself.

    You also get ssh, sftp, and cvs (via ssh) access. I haven't run into any problems with updating the content. There is a web interface for downloading code but you have to use cvs for uploading. I don't know what problem the original poster was running into but I found no difficulties with it.

  7. Re:Stellarium by ajs · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was really disapointed to find out that they are planning to migrate to a Qt-based interface instead of their current one or instead of using a more open toolkit such as GTK+. There's nothing "more open" about GTK+. Qt was a commercial toolkit with a semi-proprietary license many years ago, but has long been under the GPL.

    This means that I will probably have to stop using it (or maintain a fork) because Qt is banned in my company. Banning the use of apps which utilize a certain toolkit (unless there's some financial or security impact from using that toolkit) is absurd. Find a new company.
  8. Re:SourceForge Too Big And Now Not Supported by BlackFingolfin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry, but your spreading incorrect information here:

    First of, it *is* possible to cancel projects. In the admin section, there is a whole section dedicated specifically to "Project Removal". In addition, you can takeover existing orphaned projects, there is a support document explaining how.

    Secondly: If you lost your password or do not have access to your old email address anymore: They have a whole support document dealing just with that topic, too: .

    Finally, projects which never made any code releases and have no other "real" data etc. are automtaically purged after some time. In addition they even undertook a big effort 1-2 years ago to mark and "delete" empty projects (with lots of fail safes, asking all project members whether the project is really dead etc. etc.) -- it still produced a cry of outrage over here on slashdot... The usual double standards seem to apply here :-/