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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an international Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia. It exists as a wiki, a website that allows visitors to edit its content; the word Wikipedia itself is a portmanteau of wiki and encyclopedia and is often abbreviated to WP by its users. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing articles to be changed by anyone with access to the website. [show less]
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Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system. It is one of the most prominent examples of open source ...
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Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system. It is one of the most prominent examples of open source development and free software; its underlying source code is available for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute freely. [show less] |
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Even if you think you've never used Apache, you have. Apache serves 70% of all websites on the internet. http://www.apache.org/
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http://www.ubuntu.com/
Linux for human beings! The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.
These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it works the way you want it to. [show less]
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http://www.php.net PHP: Widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
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MySQL is the fast, simple-to-use database engine driving the vast majority of open source-powered websites, for which its excelle...
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MySQL is the fast, simple-to-use database engine driving the vast majority of open source-powered websites, for which its excellent read performance is ideal. It is easily "the world's most popular open source database," as its commercial proponent MySQL AB asserts. [show less] |
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http://www.bittorrent.com/ BitTorrent is a peer-assisted, digital content delivery platform that provides the fastest, most efficient means of distributing, discovering, and consuming large, high-quality files on the Web. [show less]
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http://www.python.org/
Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code. [show less]
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http://www.eclipse.org/
Eclipse is an open source IDE project that can be used for all sorts of development. I have been using the elcipse IDE for 2+ years now and love it. Very well done. [show less]
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Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Ava...
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Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. [show less] |
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More than just a CMS, perhaps the finest constructed middleware application server platform in all of Open Source-dom.
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http://www.debian.org/
The universal operating system.
This distribution is the rock on which Ubuntu, Knoppix, DSL, and many other GNU/Linux distros are built; it is probably the most flexible distribution out there, and runs on more architectures than any other distro out there, even on HURD and BSD kernels. Debian features a social contract that guarantees it's dedication to FOSS ideals. [show less]
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http://www.rubyonrails.org
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. [show less]
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http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright " all rights reserved " and the public domain " no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work " a "some rights reserved" copyright. [show less]
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FreeBASIC - as the name suggests - is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with the syntax the most compatible p...
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FreeBASIC - as the name suggests - is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with the syntax the most compatible possible with MS-QuickBASIC, that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline-assembly and many others. [show less] |
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A fantastically dynamic blogging software.
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Yes, Java is going open source!
Sun started a revolution with Java technology 10 years ago. With a free runtime, an open specif...
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Yes, Java is going open source!
Sun started a revolution with Java technology 10 years ago. With a free runtime, an open specification, and a platform-independent promise of compatibility, Java technology became a gold standard in embedded devices, mobile phones, on the desktop and within the enterprise. Now, in 2006, Sun is open sourcing its implementations of Java technology as Free/Libre software.
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Open source would not have gotten far without free and open source compilers. GCC has front-ends for C, C++, Fortran, and more, b...
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Open source would not have gotten far without free and open source compilers. GCC has front-ends for C, C++, Fortran, and more, back-ends for all the popular platforms, and ones you've never heard of. [show less] |
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Rediscover your music! Consistently voted best music player on Linux. Coming to Windows next year. Try it out.
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The World's most advanced open-source database. Highly scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system.
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Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everyt...
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Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. [show less] |
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Subversion (SVN) is an open source application for revision control. It is designed specifically to be a modern replacement for CV...
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Subversion (SVN) is an open source application for revision control. It is designed specifically to be a modern replacement for CVS, is superior to most commercial cm systems, and controls the code of much of the open source world. [show less] |
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FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, amd64 compatible, ARM, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures. It i...
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FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, amd64 compatible, ARM, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley, and is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals.
FreeBSD offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features today which are still missing in other operating systems, even some of the best commercial ones.
FreeBSD provides robust network services under the heaviest loads and uses memory efficiently to maintain good response times for thousands of simultaneous user processes. [show less] |
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THIS IS A STUPID TOPIC!
Digg 'em if ya got 'em!
http://digg.com/gene...f_Open_Source
Wikipedia, Firefox and Ubuntu are extremely close contenders. It's like having to choose best of the best. Wikipedia for me, since it covers an almost universal domain of knowledge, not just computers.
You didn't include any Online Organizer like Blue Smiley Organizer:
http://www.bookmark-manager.com/
I think TWiki (http://www.twiki.org) definitely needs to be mentioned in this list!
The list is a work in progress, and is becoming more useful and accurate as people continue to add and vote on their favorites; If something doesn't look right, help us improve the list by contributing new answers, votes, and comments...!
Ubuntu, Debian, Wikipedia, and Firefox.
Those three are tied in my mind for their outstanding innovation, contribution to the state of the global community as a whole, and the fostering of access, knowledge, and excellence.
I use Ubuntu and Debian exclusively.
^_^;; FreeBASIC is very helpful. It's made so much progress and has sped up my programming efforts very much so.
Great topic, thanks. It's great to revisit this one, and to see so many additional projects listed, some of which look pretty cool.
Really the first would be LINUX because if we count the votes of linux, ubuntu linux and debian they have more votes than firefox
Realmente debiera ser primero linux porque sumando los votos de linux, ubuntu linux y debian suman mas que firefox
I'm surprised that the GPL still hasn't made it to the front page yet; come on people!
@hajush: I wholeheartedly agree; it's fun to come back to and check up on. I've found out about a bunch of cool projects that i wouldn't have otherwise
@k40s
Well.... Technically Linux is solely the kernel itself, a project in it's own right. When people usually talk about GNU/Linux as an OS, however, it's no longer a single project. I consider the answer for Debian as a project which utilizes the Linux kernel (or the HURD, the BSD kernel, etc.), and then Linux as a project in it's own right which is *just* the kernel development team.
G-P-L!
For those who missed the news:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl3#Version_3
This topic is really a cool digest of interesting projects. A cool place where find projects I didn't know yet. Continue to add more of them!
I love this list, I'm going to add some more to it as I find em. I can't believe Paint.NET wasn't on there, it's a pretty impressive alternative to GIMP. Ever since I went to Paint.NET I never looked back at GIMP again.. hehe
Feel free to add it...
I can't believe that so many of these answers are not even open source
Yea, but there are a LOT that are.
@davidthedrake
right you are, dave, but a giving an answer like "del.icio.us" to the question "Best Open Source Project?" is like answering the question "Best Restaurant in Town?" with "Home Depot"
*shrug* Mark the answer as irrelevant then. With enough votes, it'll get hidden from view.
The tools are there, just gotta use them. ;)
Well, the description states that it doesn't have to be specifically GPL'd software, but simply any project that uses the "open source model" i.e. collaborative, open information sharing. I would say that del.icio.us or grupthink fit this description.
very interesting list - more can be find at http://www.howtobuil...t-list-review
Thanks for starting this topic! I hadn't known about a lot of these. :o)
This topic is great and very helpful.