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The ABC of FLOSS

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:30 pm
by wiscados
I was this on digg: http://pratham.name/post/41038294/a-z-of-technology and was wanted to make an abc of REAL technology and put in op on digg, but I wanted some community input.
This is what I got so far... some are bad, some are horrid, and some aren't even there!

A: APT
B: Bash
C: C
D: DBus
E: Emacs
F: Firefox
G: GNU
H:
I:
J: Java
K: KDE
L: Linux
M: Madwifi
N: NetBSD
O: OpenSSH
P: Pacman
Q: Qt
R: RPM
S: SplashTop
T: tar
U: Unix
V: vi
W: WINE
X: X11
Y: Yum
Z:

Re: The ABC of FLOSS

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:59 am
by Gomer_X
H: HTML - an open standard, Haskell
I: Iceweasel, Icedove, IceWM, Imagemagick
P should be Perl (or at least Python). :D
V: ViM - I don't think vi is open (I could be wrong)
X11 is not free/open. I'd use Xorg
Z: Zimbra

Here's a good resource: http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages

Re: The ABC of FLOSS

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:32 am
by Tsuroerusu
A: ath5k (Free Atheros driver), Amarok, Akonadi
B: BackTrack, BasKet
C: CentOS, coreboot, CVS
D: Debian, digiKam, DesktopBSD
E: Enlightenment
F: FreeBSD, Fedora, Fast File System, FFmpeg
G: GNOME, Gentoo, GPG, Git
H: HTTP
I: IceWM
J: JFS, JBoss
K: Konversation, Kopete, Kontact, Kaffeine
L: LaTeX, LAME, LIRC
M: Mandriva, MythDora, Mozilla, MPlayer
N: NetworkManager
O: OpenBSD (Afterall, they produce OpenSSH ;) )
P: Plasma, PC-BSD, PF
Q: Qalculate, QStars
R: Red Hat, ratpoison, Ruby
S: Spacewalk, Slackware, Solaris, SMPlayer, SELinux, Subversion
T: TFTP, Trolltech, twm
U: Ubuntu, UUCP, udev
V: Vim, Vector (Linux), Vuze, Varnish, VideoLAN
W: wxWidgets
X: Xandros, XFS, Xbox-Linux, Xine, x264
Y: YaST, Yoper Linux, Yellowdog Linux
Z: Zimbra

Re: The ABC of FLOSS

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:03 pm
by reine
wiscados wrote:I was this on digg: http://pratham.name/post/41038294/a-z-of-technology and was wanted to make an abc of REAL technology and put in op on digg, but I wanted some community input.
This is what I got so far... some are bad, some are horrid, and some aren't even there!

A: APT
B: Bash
C: C
D: DBus
E: Emacs
F: Firefox
G: GNU
H:
I:
J: Java
K: KDE
L: Linux
M: Madwifi
N: NetBSD
O: OpenSSH
P: Pacman
Q: Qt
R: RPM
S: SplashTop
T: tar
U: Unix
V: vi
W: WINE
X: X11
Y: Yum
Z:
But you forgot: PYTHON!!!!!