Top 10 Open Source Programs
posted by: Vlad AkilovThe Blog Joint.com list of the Top 10 open source programs. I guarantee that most of you used some of these programs in the past, and if you haven’t you probably will use it in the future and if you know any programming you can make it even better. Thanks to all those people working hard in the open source community.
10. eMule
eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client. The most downloaded program on sourceforge.net.
9. Audacity
Audacity is a free cross platform digital audio editor. Audacity is extremely popular in the podcasting world due to its wide availability, its multiplatform support, and free pricing.
8. Creative Commons
The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share.
7. Ogg
Ogg is a patent-free, fully open multimedia bitstream container format designed for efficient streaming and file compression. The term “ogg” often refers to the audio file format Ogg Vorbis, that is, Vorbis-encoded audio in an Ogg container. Other prominent components of Ogg are its video codec Theora, and the human speech audio compression format, Speex.
6. PHP
PHP is an open-source, reflective programming language. Originally designed as a high-level tool for producing dynamic web content, PHP is used mainly in server-side applications.
5. Wiki
The wiki software is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change all content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing.
4. Azureus
Azureus is a Java based BitTorrent client. It currently supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Unix. It is one of the most popular bit-torrent clients
3. Open Office
OpenOffice.org is a free and open source office suite, including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing and database components. It is available for many different platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Unix-like systems with the X Window System including GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. It is intended to be compatible with, and compete with, Microsoft Office. It supports the OpenDocument standard for data interchange, and can be used at no cost.
2. Linux
Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a computer operating system. It is one of the most prominent examples of open source development and free software; unlike proprietary operating systems such as Windows or Mac OS, all of its underlying source code is available to the public for anyone to freely use, modify, and redistribute. Some of the most popular distributions are Ubuntu, Mandriva, Red Hat, and Suse.
1. Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. Firefox includes an integrated pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, support for open standards, and an extension mechanism for adding functionality. Although other browsers have some of these features, Firefox became the first such browser to include them all and achieve wide adoption. PCWorld reviewed Firefox as the best product of 2005.
Some that didn’t make the list but worth mentioning.
Apache HTTP Server is a free software/open source HTTP web server for Unix-like systems (BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems), Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and other platforms.
MySQL is popular for web applications such as MediaWiki or PHP-Nuke and acts as the database component of the LAMP and WAMP platforms (Linux/Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python). Its popularity as a web application is closely tied to the popularity of PHP, which is often combined with MySQL and nicknamed the Dynamic Duo.
June 12th, 2006 at 10:04 pm
I’m all about the wiki
June 12th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
What about Tomcat and Apache? Love those two.
- dave
June 14th, 2006 at 10:33 am
What about Gaim, Mozilla Thunderbird, xChat and any of the DE’s?
June 14th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Oo. I have to disagree about the wiki. Ok, I like wikipedia, but wikis in the corporate world are teh suckage.
June 15th, 2006 at 9:00 am
Why did you use the Ubuntu logo instead of Tux?
June 15th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Steven: I guess I just like the ubuntu logo, and its popular, but I will change it to Tux now, because you’re not the first person that suggested this.
July 4th, 2006 at 3:59 am
Mozilla Thunderbird should have been included. For LAMP developers - phpMyAdmin is an essential tool and most widely used for managing MySQL over browser.
July 4th, 2006 at 4:01 am
You’ve got to be kidding.
* GCC & GDB - the program that was used to develop all the ones you listed except #4
* sendmail (& postfix, qmail, etc as runners up) - the program that handles most of the email on the internet
July 4th, 2006 at 4:04 am
Others worth a mention if only because they are on the up and comming list.
Asterisk - VoIP PABX, Asterisk@Home or TRIXBOX as it has recently been renamed.
SugarCRM - Web based CRM, currently dissapearing up it’s own a*** with complexity though.
SharpDevelop - A real competitor to Visual Studio, and if and when they get the Compact Framework bits working
Subversion : where would we be without it?
July 4th, 2006 at 4:05 am
Personally, I would’ve stuck Apache and MySQL up in the top 10 and dropped Audacity and E-Mule to the honorable-mention list. Both are far more widely used and useful.
July 4th, 2006 at 4:15 am
cc isn’t a program, it is a merely licence
i think the ist is quite incomplete since
sendmail/postfix-apache-bind are not listed in top 10?
July 4th, 2006 at 4:17 am
How in the hell is apache not even listed.
A majority of the interweb is running Apache, do you realize how much impact that is?
This list seems a bit off :/
July 4th, 2006 at 4:18 am
and by listed i mean in the top 10.. IMO it should be #2, and Linux #1
July 4th, 2006 at 4:23 am
Firefox > Linux? No way.
July 4th, 2006 at 4:31 am
I predicted Firefox would take the number 1 spot! Good article
July 4th, 2006 at 4:41 am
Why is The Creative Commons even listed? It’s not software by any means. WTF?
I hate to be the barer of bad news, but Azureus and eMule don’t belong either. And Azureus sure doesn’t belong above Wikipedia, IMHO. Actually, Wikimedia is the software used, so that should be listed. I would also say Gaim needs to be listed as well.
July 4th, 2006 at 4:55 am
Apache should be No. 1, easy. What peice of software in the is used more than apache(2). Firefox is good but not as good as apache.
July 4th, 2006 at 5:03 am
Only 5 programs in the list, so is the top 5 open source programs.
“Wiki” is not a program, is a web template!
“ogg” is not a program. i can execute ogg, is a FORMAT.
“Creative Commons”?? for the sake of god!
July 4th, 2006 at 5:04 am
Nice list. I do have 2 comments though. While I dig what CC does, it doesn’t really seem to fit in with the rest of your list. CC’s a license, not software.
I’d also have to submit that Eclipse belongs on the list.
July 4th, 2006 at 5:16 am
Eclipse should definitely feature in this
July 4th, 2006 at 5:36 am
Apparently all these open sources softwares are somehow related to Linux platforms. What about GIMP, OpenSSH…etc?
July 4th, 2006 at 5:49 am
The GIMP seems to be missing
July 4th, 2006 at 5:58 am
What does CC have to do with “progrmas”? Same goes for Wikipedia — it is not a progrma (while MediaWiki it runs on is).
Why do you prefer Audacity to The GIMP? Why is it FireFox and not Mozilla?
July 4th, 2006 at 6:26 am
Any list of top ten opensource programs that does not include Avery Lee’s “Virtualdub” is totally bogus.
July 4th, 2006 at 6:31 am
Top ten in what regard? User-base? Functionality? Quality? This site is #1 in the top 10 web sites! What crap.
July 4th, 2006 at 6:52 am
Nice list
I would swap positions for 1 & 2
July 4th, 2006 at 7:55 am
Didn’t know Audacity would make the list! Great collection, though.
July 4th, 2006 at 11:18 am
Cmon!! Apache should be on the list definitely … at least before azareus
Anyway … a good list of good software
July 4th, 2006 at 11:19 am
How about Gimp? Besides, including two file-sharing programs in “top 10″-list doesn’t seem to have a point.
July 4th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Why is Creative Commons on a list of open source programs? Even the description says its a “organization” rather than a program.
July 4th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
I have found this list to be very useful : Open Source Freeware : 400+ free applications and utilities
July 4th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Great difference between end users and developers
July 5th, 2006 at 3:09 am
For the people who don’t understand what program means:
pro·gram Audio pronunciation of “program” ( P ) Pronunciation Key (prgrm, -grm)
n.
1.
1. A listing of the order of events and other pertinent information for a public presentation.
2. The presentation itself: a program of piano pieces.
2. A scheduled radio or television show.
3. An ordered list of events to take place or procedures to be followed; a schedule: a program of physical therapy for a convalescent.
4. A system of services, opportunities, or projects, usually designed to meet a social need: “Working parents rely on the center’s after-school latchkey program” (New York Times).
5.
1. A course of academic study; a curriculum.
2. A plan or system of academic and related or ancillary activities: a work-study program.
3. A plan or system of nonacademic extracurricular activities: the football program.
6. A set of coded instructions that enables a machine, especially a computer, to perform a desired sequence of operations.
7. An instruction sequence in programmed instruction.
The definition you all think about is number 6, CC is definition 4 probably, so is wikipedia, maybe even 5.
July 6th, 2006 at 8:36 am
What was the criteria to select those programs as the Top 10? In the end it’s all relative. For a business the top 10 would look a lot different then for a private individual, for developer different than a user.
There is so much open source and freeware out there, that anyone who needs something should be able to find a good piece of software.
Have a look at :http://wiki.freebiewiki.org
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geezus
July 7th, 2006 at 2:49 am
Sorry dude, but eMule and Azureus bite. eMule is way too small for day to day file transfer, and Azureus is a ram hog. Try utorrent for your BT downloads…it’s all the same features with less resource hogging and ugly bloat.
July 7th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
uTorrent is good but its not open source, thats why its not on the list.
July 10th, 2006 at 8:15 am
Nice list but where the hell is Gimp!!
July 15th, 2006 at 7:00 am
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May 6th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
How about Gimp? Besides, including two file-sharing programs in “top 10″-list doesn’t seem to have a point.
February 4th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Nice list. I do have 2 comments though. While I dig what CC does, it doesn’t really seem to fit in with the rest of your list. CC’s a license, not software.
I’d also have to submit that Eclipse belongs on the list.
August 8th, 2009 at 4:48 am
its better to check the list once again.i think cc and wiki are not eligible to be honoured in top 10
June 24th, 2010 at 4:32 am
eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client. The most downloaded program on sourceforge.net.