SourceForge's Hottest Five Apps
Posted by
kdawson
on Thu Jun 21, 2007 09:28 AM
from the top-of-the-heap dept.
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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Well this is stupid (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.toadking.com/)
What was the point in this?
Re:Well this is stupid (Score:5, Insightful)
Stellarium (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.ajs.com/~ajs/)
Re:Stellarium (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.ajs.com/~ajs/)
SourceForge Too Big And Now Not Supported (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://freejavalectures.googlepages.com/)
Re:SourceForge Too Big And Now Not Supported (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://sitetheory.com/ | Last Journal: Friday October 24 2003, @10:59AM)
As an example, search for "calendar". 2 of the first 3 returned have no code, and no website.
Re:SourceForge Too Big And Now Not Supported (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday November 08, @06:00PM)
Yes, we refer to those as "Outlook killers".
Stellarium, by the way, is a superb piece of software and it's good to see it get attention even via a route as clueless as this article.
Re:SourceForge Too Big And Now Not Supported (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.xenoveritas.org/ | Last Journal: Monday September 24, @04:04PM)
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.
Re:SourceForge Too Big And Now Not Supported (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.transitio...gi-bin/articlerss.pl | Last Journal: Wednesday June 01 2005, @12:45PM)
I recently started a project [sourceforge.net] 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.
In case you forgot: (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://www.slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday March 21 2007, @10:06AM)
Also, this is neither news (let alone for nerds) or stuff that matters.
Go Azureus! (Score:5, Insightful)
Besides, everyone KNOWS that the more design patterns you use, the better your program is!
Re:Go Azureus! (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://thoughthead.com/)
For the type of app that generally runs consistently in the background bloat is the last thing you want, similarly a pretty interface isn't all that necessary based on the amount of time most users will actually spend looking at it.
Re:Go Azureus! (Score:5, Funny)
Not for end user. (Score:3, Funny)
Would be nice to see a top 10 user geared list.
nothing new (Score:3, Informative)
Gotta have Azureus! (Score:3, Funny)
"Azureus is the #1 application on SourceForge today. It needs little introduction and is both known and used throughout the world. "
Well, that's all the information i need to know! Where do i sign up?
Zenoss Core (Score:2)
Most useful from SF (Score:3, Informative)
Both client and server are working great, highly recommended free open source FTP client and server.
Re:Most useful from SF (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.freebase.be/)
Did iTWire's CSS fail to load anyone else? (Score:1)
(http://shortcircuit.us/ | Last Journal: Sunday October 14, @02:01AM)
What a fucking horrible site (Score:1, Troll)
(http://avitas.net/)
Google Earth uses Ajax? (Score:2)
Google Earth is a web app. What makes it so snappy is Ajax.
I've never actually used Google Earth, but I was under the impression that it does NOT run inside a web browser. So why would it use javascript? Maybe they meant to use Google Maps as an example?
No way. (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.khalidine.com/)
As a user... (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Monday November 28 2005, @09:58PM)
I know that when I'm searching, googling if you will, for an app to do something, if a sourceforge link comes up, the software I get from there will be open source, and (maybe I am making a big jump here) virus and spyware free as a result.
Am I lazy because I can't be stuffed researching too much about the apps I need? Maybe. But sourceforge is double plus good if you ask me.
zk unimpressive (Score:2)
Now this is an impressive ajax framework demo [nextapp.com].
SLOWforge (Score:1)
Re:Its spam (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.insidebet.com/)
The trick is to waste as little time as possible per news item you do not find interesting. No one gives a shit if you stop visiting Slashdot. I know I will, because I really enjoy the service as it is.
Perfection is an illusion.
Re:OSS P2P (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Its spam (Score:1)
it seems like I have to stop coming here to Slashdot.
Bye. Don't let the door hit you on your way out.
Re:OSS P2P (Score:2, Insightful)
BitTorrent helps.
Re:OSS P2P (Score:2, Informative)
(http:///#!/)
I guess you wouldn't necessarily need to download software via P2P if it was actually free to begin with.
Granted, it is a smaller percentage, but in the case of Bittorrent it is being used more and more for legitimate software downloads. Bittorrent is really just another file transfer protocol that happens to be P2P. I download a lot of larger open source apps via P2P when I can because its generally faster, especially for new releases. Podcasts, especially video podcasts, are especially good to use Bittorrent for. Since it is subscription based, you have huge swarms trying to download the podcast at once, so Bittorrent is especially effective in that case.
Re:OSS P2P (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.gemstate.net/friends | Last Journal: Tuesday September 11, @10:32AM)
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.
Re:OSS P2P (Score:2)
Re:Four letters they missed (Score:2)
(http://hazy.stupor.org/)
They didn't miss anything. The list only includes the five most active projects from last week.
Re:OSS P2P (Score:1, Interesting)
But since you mentioned software, check http://www.planeshift.it/ [planeshift.it] - an open source game distributed via Bittorrent.
Don't worry (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday August 07, @01:18PM)
Re:Don't worry (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The end of the article says 10... (Score:1)
(http://snicks.bravehost.com/)
Someone forget a link to the first or did the author mess up?