The Best Unknown Open Source Projects

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday July 14, 2011 @04:35AM from the foss-hipsters dept.

itwbennett writes "Carla Schroder points to an interesting trend in open source: 'The growth of large distributed projects.' OpenTox, which uses computer modeling instead of animal testing for chemical toxicity testing, and AMEE (Avoiding Mass Extinctions Engine), which uses open source software and methodologies to collect, map, measure and analyze carbon dioxide data, are two such projects. 'FOSS presents a natural platform for building large distributed projects because of the low barrier to entry — open code, open standards, and freely-available robust, high-quality high-performance software,' says Schroder." What open source project gets less attention than you think it deserves?

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Don't really know by 0racle · 2011-07-14 04:42 · Score: 5, Funny

I don't really know of any. I guess that's sort of the problem.

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Re:Equally relevant question by gilleain · 2011-07-14 05:19 · Score: 5, Insightful

What is your favorite breed of dog?
You know, in many other forums, nobody would see any problem with asking the group "What is your favorite breed of dog?"
Yes, but those same people react oddly when you ask them obvious questions like "What is your favourite integrated development environment?" or "What processor do you think is best?". Those people are weird.