Top 10 Open Source Programs

Wednesday, Jul. 5 2006 | Author: Dave

While this would not really be my top ten list of open source programs, I think that the list that The Blog Joint has created has some merit, and a few of these could use more exposure.

In their top 10 list they have:
eMule
Audacity
Creative Commons
Ogg
PHP
Wiki
Azureus
Open Office
Linux
Firefox

No doubt some of you have your own thoughts on what should be in that list, and I would love to hear about them, as I am always looking for more great open source software. Is there anything better than Audacity for editing podcasts?

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5 Responses for "Top 10 Open Source Programs"

Jeff Croft

July 5th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
1

Many of them could, yes. PHP, however, has already gotten far more exposure than it EVER deserved. :)
David

July 5th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
2

Yeah, Ruby on Rails is the “big” thing now. :) But you can’t fault them for listing it due to its long term popularity.
Jeff Croft

July 5th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
3

I’m not big on Ruby, myself. Python is my thing. but both Ruby and Python (and any other dynamic language, for that matter), are a lot better than PHP! :)
Jason Drohn

July 5th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
4

You have to throw mySQL and apache in there as well, being that 60% of the servers on the internet use it.

Check out http://www.eff.org. They have some cool stuff, anonymous/privacy intenet software, etc.
apple eaten

July 6th, 2006 at 12:07 am
5

7zip (compression), gimp (graphics), and media player classic (audio/video player) are all excellent open source programs. i haven’t tried abiword (word processing) yet, is open office better? the thing i like best about all four of these is that they offer support for non-open source formats.

audacity works very well for me, except for 32-bit wave files. for some reason trying to edit them slows my computer to a stop. still great for removing pops and clicks from the start or end of mp3’s.

i’m looking at open office now. looks interesting, thanks for the post.