The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008

An anonymous reader writes "Open Source Software is about more than just the Linux operating system, and 2008 brought advances in the form of OpenOffice.org, IBM Lotus Symphony, Firefox and Android. But Linux is still the heart of the FOSS movement, and this year brought key developments in the operating system as well. Here's a look at the coolest open source products to come across the transom in 2008." Along roughly similar lines, davidmwilliams points out the year in review of the iTWire's "Linux Distillery" column.

Comments

Re:Completely worthless

[monkeySauce]

And the second time is the long-term service distribution, which is about as exciting as growing grass!

I think you mean about exciting as watching grass grow .

Growing grass on the other hand, is quite exciting to a lot of people; eg. drug dealers, pot heads, the DEA.

THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING

[Anonymous Coward]

Jesus christ. I just got eye-raped by all the ads on that page. What're we talking here.. 1:10 ratio of content:crap?

GOOD LUCK WITH THE WEB2.0 SOON TO BE OUT OF BUSINESS WEBSITE

Re:Zzzzzz

[Anonymous Coward]

Article has wrong title, should be: "1 Cheesy Way To Drive Up Your Ad Revenue"

Re:Completely worthless

[LandDolphin]

Hank Hill

Re:Spoiler

[Anonymous Coward]

The coolest are:

1. OpenOffice
2. IBM Lotus Symphony
3. Firefox 3.0
4. Laconica
5. Fedora 9
6. Ubuntu 8.10
7. Open SuSe11
8. Novell JeOS
9. Ubuntu 8.04
10. Android

Firefox 3.0?! Where's IE 8!

Re:Equivalency

[David Gerard]

It's the lack of that ribbon, isn't it.