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The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008

Posted by timothy on from the not-the-transom-of-the-novel-white-jazz dept.

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.

3 of 198 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I don't get it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sad how slashdot standards have sunk. It used to be that technically minded people used to be in the majority, now we have people that get totally confused with the some measly ms office interface changes. Something which low level office assistants, secretaries got used to in my office within a couple of hours.

    It used to be that to fix a problem someone would just tell you to change a piece of code and recompile it. I wonder how this new generation can handle that. Feels like something of value has been lost. :(

  2. I personally like this one by PocketPick · · Score: -1, Troll

    My personal favorite open source app is this one this one. But I guess I'm just a bit picky....

  3. Re:not a 2008 project but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Windows users are so damn boring.