posted by
Blackmoore
on Wednesday January 07 2015, @11:34PM
from the i-write-lists-in-my-sleep dept.
from the i-write-lists-in-my-sleep dept.
In a page reminiscent of the web portals of the 1990s, Datamation has compiled a jumbo list of noteworthy open source software products (disclaimer: it's *not* a "comprehensive" list), grouped into categories, with URLs, brief descriptions, and target operating system(s) for each project. It's a rollup of their monthly spotlight lists.
The list is fun to browse, and a good starting point for learning what's out there. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a single page view.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 08 2015, @01:20AM
Sites that spread small amount of content over multiple pages just suck.
This one has been on my Avoid list for ages.
Greedy bastards.
-- gewg_
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 08 2015, @02:35AM
created by me, enjoy: http://jsbin.com/sebobajeqo/1/ [jsbin.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 08 2015, @02:49AM
Nice job.
I was surprised not to see Doom and Quake listed under "Games", since the opening of their sources by Id Software were considered big events, although there is mention of other games that use their respective engines. Wolfenstein is also in there.
(Score: 2) by Zinho on Thursday January 08 2015, @10:41PM
If I recall correctly, the engines were opened but the level packs and other content were not. As a result even after the open source release of the engine the full games are not legal to distribute.
This kinda makes sense, since not all of the content in the game was owned by Id; notably, the soundtrack for Quake was composed by Trent Reznor and I think he still owns the rights to it. Without his permission Id couldn't release the full game legally even if they wanted to.
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 08 2015, @02:50AM
You are a gentleman and a scholar.
May each your children get a Nobel Prize.
-- gewg_
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 08 2015, @03:54AM
Interesting anomaly: The editor software seems to want to throw in an extra linefeed every 120 items. (From 479 onward looks normal.)
Since you might suspect an item would be under 1 heading and it instead appears under another, having them all on 1 page is nice.
In that vein, "Operating Systems and Kernel Modifications" seems like an odd mashup.
It would have been very cool if your page had a id="games" in the code so that I could do this:
http://jsbin.com/sebobajeqo/1/#games [jsbin.com]
That section is pretty impressive.
N.B. I'm not a gamer, but there are a lot of EULAware folks who pound on that "shortcoming" WRT FOSS.
They hit 1 of my pet peeves.
#127 (a book) is described as "open source".
Without any source code being involved, "open content", "open knowledge", "open license", or some such would have been a better description.
-- gewg_
(Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday January 08 2015, @03:03AM
There's over 1200 files, each with a summary of what it is. Around 120 files per page.
Personally, I feel this is one of the more informative of topics I have seen on this site. I am still perusing the list.
Beautiful work compiling this list.
Most ( by a long shot ) I never knew existed.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday January 08 2015, @03:06AM
this particular page doesn't have any ads, but that's the reason other sites do it.
In general writing articles is a real good way to attract visitors to click on your ads.
In my actual experience, it works far, far better to have long, in-depth articles. For me what works the best are articles that are twenty pages long in hardcopy form, with just two ad units, as well as some articles with no ads at all.
That makes the articles more attractive to the search engines. Articles that are more informative, funny or otherwise appealing are more likely to convince my readers to recommend them to others by linking them.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by fadrian on Thursday January 08 2015, @02:06PM
I'm not too unhappy with the split in this case - the first page had 75 or so projects and their descriptions on it and the second looked like it was starting off that way, as well. I'd rather see a list with 750 or so items split up a bit. At least it let me do a TL;DR exit in a timely manner.
That is all.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday January 08 2015, @11:00AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Thursday January 08 2015, @11:57AM
Wow, Dr. Dobbs folded and ... Datamation is still around? Really?
(E-mail me if you want a pizza roll!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 09 2015, @04:20AM
Heh, I know. Datamation has been around since the 1970's.
I remember their magazines used to be full of articles with flow charts like:
Gather Requirements
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Initial Design
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Target System Parameters
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Detailed Design
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Feedback from Stakeholders
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Provisional Design
It's not good when your eyes glaze over just looking at a graph with four or five boxes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 08 2015, @04:54PM
Wow, I didn't realize there is so much accounting and bookkeeping software. Can someone recommend a free replacement for Quickbooks that can synch across multiple machines and, better yet, over the Internet? Something like that would be potentially very useful. Thanks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 08 2015, @06:49PM
Sure. Just check the list linked below, read the descriptions, and try one that sounds like it best fits your needs. The listing also links to each one if you need to dig deeper into any of them or want to download them:
http://www.datamation.com/open-source/open-source-software-list-2015-ultimate-list-1.html [datamation.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 09 2015, @12:43AM
I respect Jack Wallen's opinions and he has done some cheerleading for FrontAccounting. [google.com]
See if that does what you want.
(I don't do bookkeeping.)
-- gewg_