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Best Open Source Project?


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Firefox


 
214 votes
3982 pts
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Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...i/Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an international Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia. It exists...

194 votes
3536 pts
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Apache Server

Even if you think you've never used Apache, you have. Apache serves 70% of all websites on the internet.

 http://www.apache.org/
114 votes
1877 pts
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Linux (GNU/Linux)


Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system. It is one of the most prominent examples of open source...

108 votes
1847 pts
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Ubuntu Linux

http://www.ubuntu.com/
Linux for human beings! The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu
 Philosophy:... 

100 votes
1722 pts
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PHP

http://www.php.net

PHP: Widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be... 
76 votes
1141 pts
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VLC



69 votes
1039 pts
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OpenOffice

A free, open source replacement for MS office, and it mostly works well with MS documents. Download at http://www.openoffice.org/


66 votes
965 pts
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Python

http://www.python.org/
Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software... 
57 votes
955 pts
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Eclipse

http://www.eclipse.org/
 Eclipse is an open source IDE project that can be used for all sorts of development. I have been using... 
52 votes
822 pts
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MySQL

MySQL is the fast, simple-to-use database engine driving the vast majority of open source-powered websites, for which its ... 

61 votes
799 pts
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Blender 3D

Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.... 

52 votes
779 pts
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FreeBASIC

FreeBASIC - as the name suggests - is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with the syntax the most compatible... 
39 votes
778 pts
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Debian

http://www.debian.org/
The universal operating system. This distribution is the rock on which Ubuntu, Knoppix, DSL, and many...

51 votes
771 pts
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BitTorrent

http://www.bittorrent.com/
BitTorrent is a peer-assisted, digital content delivery platform that provides the fastest, most... 

58 votes
756 pts
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Drupal

More than just a CMS, perhaps the finest constructed middleware application server platform in all of Open Source-dom.


 

43 votes
712 pts
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Gimp


53 votes
709 pts
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Creative Commons

http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright " all rights reserved "... 


43 votes
662 pts
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SourceForge.net


49 votes
636 pts
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GCC - GNU Compiler Collection, http://gcc.gnu.org

Open source would not have gotten far without free and open source compilers. GCC has front-ends for C, C++, Fortran, and more,... 


42 votes
589 pts
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PostgreSQL

The World's most advanced open-source database. Highly scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management... 


38 votes
531 pts
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Joomla

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for... 


28 votes
507 pts
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Java

Yes, Java is going open source! Sun started a revolution with Java technology 10 years ago. With a free runtime, an open... 


41 votes
504 pts
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Thunderbird

An awesome free mail client, and a great alternative to Outlook. Calendar and other extensions are available.... 


40 votes
501 pts
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Ruby on Rails

http://www.rubyonrails.org
 Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and... 


34 votes
495 pts
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Amarok

Rediscover your music! Consistently voted best music player on Linux. Coming to Windows next year. Try it... 


31 votes
479 pts
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Wordpress

A fantastically dynamic blogging software.


 

34 votes
437 pts
28.  
 

Subversion

Subversion (SVN) is an open source application for revision control. It is designed specifically to be a modern replacement for... 


35 votes
423 pts
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FreeBSD

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, amd64 compatible, ARM, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures. It... 


24 votes
341 pts
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MIT's OpenCourseWare

http://ocw.mit.edu/
A free education from MIT!


25 votes
334 pts

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Del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/
 Collaborative social tagging/bookmarking site, with that oh-so-catchy url spelling. 
26 votes
320 pts
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MPlayerMEncoder

The Movie Player and Movie Encoder supporting binary DLLs, skins, filters, browser embedding, all possible media, and all... 
23 votes
318 pts
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Adium X

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more. 
22 votes
299 pts
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Inkscape

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using... 
22 votes
251 pts
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XviD

if you are into video compression technology and have a understanding of C this might be for you.
22 votes
245 pts
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Digg.com

http://www.Digg.com/ The poster child for user moderated news. Although the software is not technically "open source" (although... 
24 votes
241 pts
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Gaim

Instant messenger for AIM/ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, IRC, Jabber, MSN, Napster, SILC, and Yahoo.
24 votes
235 pts
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Perl

http://www.perl.com \
Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a... 
19 votes
223 pts
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Stumble Upon - Social Bookmarking Tool

"Stumbleupon is a brilliant downloadable toolbar that beds into your browser and gives you the chance to surf through thousands of... 
17 votes
205 pts
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Samba

http://www.samba.org
Connecting the Unix and Windows world. 
19 votes
193 pts
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KDE

Multiplatform Window Manager
14 votes
189 pts
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Audacity


18 votes
181 pts
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Grupthink

http://www.grupthink.com/
recursion at work :o) 
15 votes
176 pts
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Celtx

Media Pre-Production Software Film/Video/Theatre/M achinima/Gaming Start your story, write a screenplay, do a breakdown, organize... 
12 votes
173 pts
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Putty

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. License... 
16 votes
168 pts
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The GPL

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft...ft/gpl.html
The GNU General Public License; what started it all...
16 votes
163 pts
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Beryl

Open source window manager that utilizes OpenGL to create interesting and useful effects.
13 votes
161 pts
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Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.... 
10 votes
161 pts
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Moodle

http://www.moodle.org 
11 votes
159 pts
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GNOME Desktop

Free, usable, accessible, international, developer-friendly, organized, support for all dists and worldwide community Desktop. 
12 votes
153 pts
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Trac

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to... 
11 votes
148 pts
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OpenBSD

http://www.openbsd.org
The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts... 
12 votes
144 pts
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Democracy Player

14 votes
124 pts
54.  
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Asterisk

Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a... 
12 votes
122 pts
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Cygwin

# Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API... 
15 votes
119 pts
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Ffmpeg

An open source media format converter. Converting more than thousands of video, audio and graphic formats to one another.... 
11 votes
118 pts
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Gallery

http://gallery.sf.net
 is the next generation of open source photo sharing web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to... 
10 votes
114 pts
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Free1x2

Free1x2 is the first free program of sports lotteries in Spain and of opened code (GPL). With Free1x2 you will be able to realize... 
5 votes
100 pts
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TWiki

TWiki (http://www.twiki.org) is definitely in this list ! TWiki is a flexible and easy to use enterprise collaboration platform... 
9 votes
99 pts
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MythTV

An open source PVR project.
11 votes
97 pts
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OpenJDK

9 votes
96 pts
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ReactOS

ReactOS is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible... 
7 votes
93 pts