Websites Supporting Open Source Software

Let us now talk about some projects and organizations dedicated to free and open source software in one way or another.


1. www.sourceforge.net

SourceForge.net is a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development, and acts as a source code repository. Sourceforge.net is hosted by V A Software and runs a version of the SourceForge software. A large number of open source projects are hosted on the site about 85000 in october 2004, about 8 years ago and it contains a lot of single user project additionally.

SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source Software development web site, hosting more than 100,000 projects and over 1,000,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code. It has the largest repository of Open Source Code and applications available on the Internet.

visit www.sourceforge.net


2. www.opensource.org


This is the official / home page for OSI.

"Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the open source definition for the good of community, specially through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program."























In their own words:

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.

Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.

One of our most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a nexus of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize open source cooperation.

3. www.linux.org www.linux.com www.linuxindia.com

These are the sites associated with the open source operating system Linux. Linux has already been covered in the site in details.

The top three linux distribution has been discussed here: 

Top three linux distributions.

4. www.gnu.org

This site is is the official site of revolutionary GNU project. 

The GNU project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX style operating system which is free software, the gnu system. GNU is a recursive acronym for "Gnu's Not UNIX",. It is pronounced "guh-noo". Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel linux are now widely used.

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