An up-to-date look at free software and its makers
PROJECTS ON THE MOVE
Hundreds of thousands of registered users have chosen their favorite Sourceforge projects in 14 categories. Also in this issue: Linux electrified, and Freenet’s plans for freedom of speech on the web. We’ll also round up the latest Debian news.
The community has made its choice! A major part of the free developer community – totaling over a million programmers currently registered with Sourceforge.net – were asked to cast their votes for the most popular Sourceforge projects in 14 categories. Sourceforge organizers asked the community to choose between a preliminary selection of the 40 most active projects. And if you accept the 250,000 voters as a representative cross-section, the results make very interesting reading. The two most popular projects, Azureus [1] (see Figure 1) and EMule [2], are platform-independent filesharing clients. Third place went to 7-Zip [3], a free archiving tool for Windows.
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