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The 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.
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