Open Source Projects That You Should Know About? 23
cosyne asks: "Seeing the recent announcement about FreeS/WAN reminds me that there are many cool projects that I'm mostly unaware of (or, more often, completely oblivious to), which I only hear about when Slashdot posts a 'Developers finally giving up on this cool project' story. What projects (software or otherwise) are out there that would benefit from more involvement if only they had the publicity?"
Is this a joke? (Score:2)
Re:Is this a joke? (Score:2)
I am fairly certain that it is a bug in Slashdot because I did not see this story until nearly 24 hours after it was posted (I first saw it on Wednesday at about 8:15 PM (U.S. Eastern Time)) notwithstanding that I visited Slashdot at least twice between the time that this story was posted and the time that I first saw this story.
Slashdot editors, could you please re-post this story? This topic is of great interest to many of us.
Re:Is this a joke? (Score:1)
PocketWarrior (Score:2, Interesting)
Anyways...
I like PocketWarrior [sourceforge.net] but it saddens me that it will not currently work with my Dell Axim X3i and the built in Wi-Fi. Otherwise, I'd be having a lot more fun with my little PPC.
Eerie (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Eerie (Score:2)
ratpoison (Score:2)
Open Music Registry (Score:3, Informative)
This isn't open source software, but copyleft applied to music... The Open Music Registry is an interactive database of music that is licensed under copyleft-style licenses, including the Open Audio License, one of the Creative Commons licenses, and more. Follow the link in my signature to check it out.
(Not that anybody will probably see this now... not sure what's up with this story and its lack of visibility...)
Chicken and egg (Score:2)
> out there that would benefit from more
> involvement if only they had the publicity?"
I think the problem is that projects that are useful and popular get as much developer help as they need, whereas those projects that aren't getting helped are usually in that situation for good reasons.
For example, I work on a clunky little DOOM map generator [rubyforge.org]. I wrote it as a way to a) generate very simple maps and b) learn about bitpacking in Ruby. So the fact tha
Tooting my own horn... (Score:4, Insightful)
My Open Source Project, the jSyncManager Project (http://www.jsyncmanager.org) could certainly use more help and attention. It's a pure Java solution for synchronizing PalmOS based handhelds with applications and databases. It has a completely object-oriented protocol stack, and only requires jUSB or the Java Communications API to communicate, making it completely platform-neutral. It doesn't need to be ported between platforms ala pilot-link, nor does it rely on the Windows HotSync Manager like most other PalmOS-based Java sync solutions, so it will run the same on Linux, OS/2, Windows, MacOS, *BSD, and anything else that can run Java.
We've been doing pretty well attracting users, particularily in the corporate space because the applications and APIs are mature (the project will be celebrating 5 years since its initial 1.0 release this May), stable, and allow easy development in Java.
But getting people to contribute code has been a real hassle, as has been trying to get developers of other Java-based Open Source applications to use our code and specs (like our jConduit plug-in spec for creating your own pure Java conduit plug-ins) -- even in cases where it makes perfect sense to do so (like for JPluck -- a pure Java toolkit for Plucker, which while being pure, cross-platform Java in the toolkit itself, provides only a native Windows conduit for synchroniation).
The project is at the state right now where we have tons of potential users who would like to se more plug-ins, but a complete dearth of willing Open Source developers to actually write them. Sure, now and then some user/developer might supply a patch to fix something minor, but it's exceedingly rare than anyone ever volunteers to develop something new (and when they do, it's rarer still that they actually follow through).
Sorry for the rant -- but the project has long been close to my heart, people who have seen and used it rank it quite highly, and we have lots of willing users -- we're just lacking the developers. It makes me understand why some other OS project administrators (like the LRP guys) can be willing to throw in the towel. Everyone wants new features, but finding the willing developers who will actually put any real time into development can be exceedingly frustrating.
Yaz.
My SourceForge bookmarks (Score:5, Interesting)
audacity [sourceforge.net] - multiplatform audio editing
bluewalk [sourceforge.net] - automated bluetooth 'hacking' for Symbian smartphones
dcl [sourceforge.net] - a web-based project mgmt systems
gaim [sourceforge.net] - multiplatform AIM / MSN\Yahoo Messenger clone
gallery [sourceforge.net] PHP/web-based photo gallery
opl-dev [sourceforge.net] - scripting env for Symbian smartphones
s2putty [sourceforge.net] - SSH for Symbian smartphones
semagic [sourceforge.net] - LiveJournal [livejournal.com] client
sodipodi [sourceforge.net] - multiplatform illustration app
squirrelmail [sourceforge.net] - PHP-based webmail
ultravnc [sourceforge.net] - best VNC client/server for Windows
winscp [sourceforge.net] - SCP (and secure FTP) client for Windows
xplanet [sourceforge.net] - funky app that shows you the earth + current cloud cover
Well (Score:2)
At best, you'll have a bunch of solo project owners hoping to get some help. In which case, you may as well just browse through the SF.net directory.
For small office/home networks (Score:3, Informative)
Re:For small office/home networks (Score:1)
a few more (Score:3, Informative)
Lilypond [lilypond.org]: A great open source music notation program.
Cinepaint [sourceforge.net]: Painting and retouching.
CDex [sourceforge.net]: CD Ripper and converter.
Panda 3d [sourceforge.net]: 3D rendering engine.
Mambo [mamboserver.com]: Content management
Gordian Knot [sourceforge.net]:DivX/XviD encoding
Helix [helixcommunity.org]: Media player
7 Zip [7-zip.org]: Zip
Here's Mine (Score:3, Interesting)
Unattended [sourceforge.net] is a system for installing Windows and apps hands-off. Great use of Perl and BATch files to do something useful. Kind of a PITA to set up, but once going, it's well worth the time investment.
Re:Here's Mine (Score:3, Informative)
There's a typo in the link, here's the right one. [sourceforge.net]
Caudium (Score:2, Interesting)
Fast, secure, extensible, modular, easy to admin (for newbies) without sacrificing power (you can still edit the config files if you wish). With the sole exception of installed user base, it beats Apache in every category.
Some of My Favourites (Score:1)
Soya 3d [tuxfamily.org] This is a 3d library for python built on top of openGL. I find it's a lot higher level than calling OpenGL directly. It handles collision detection, rendering, animation, model loading etc, with a very shallow learning curve but still flexible.
Cypherpunk Networks (Score:1)
Invisible IRC Proxy [invisiblenet.net]
Its a seperate IRC network that hides the IP of the users and encrypts all the traffic coming in and out. semi-centralized, not totally anon due to small size
Freenet Project [freenetproject.org]
Kinda like a decentralized encrypted RAID + Usenet. High latency, high bandwith. More for publishing than interactivity, although there is a cool BBS prog for it.
Invisible Internet Project [i2p.org]
You heard it hear first! I2P, the next generation of anonymous communicatio
some audio, some (Score:1)
hard disk recorder & digital audio workstation.
ladspa http://ladspa.org
audio plugins for linux.
hydrogen http://hydrogen.sf.net
drum machine for linux
seq24 http://www.filter24.org/seq24/
a very nice little looping midi sequencer
jack http://jackit.sf.net
plug all your linux audio apps into each other and blow your mind.
zope http://zope.org
app server written in python, great for content management, way cool and weird.
twisted http://www.twistedmatrix.com
python framework for whipp