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This category will be about all things '''Open Source''' (or '''Open Source Software'''/'''OSS'''). I will include links to and reviews of my favourite OSS projects.

==List of OSS projects==
Below is an ''incomplete'' list of OSS projects I support and actively use:
* [http://www.opensuse.org/ openSUSE.org] — seeks to provide a free, open-source version of SuSE Linux.
* [http://www.kde.org/ KDE] — K Desktop Environment for Linux and Unix workstations.
* [http://www.gnome.org/ GNOME] — GNOME is a Unix and Linux desktop suite and development platform.
* [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice] — a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project.
* [http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse] — an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software.

===Graphics===
* [http://www.gimp.org/ The GIMP] — The GNU Image Manipulation Program.

===Math===
* [http://www.r-project.org/ The R Project] — R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
* [http://yacas.sourceforge.net/ Yacas] — an open source, general-purpose, easy-to-use computer algebra system.

===Plotting===
* [http://www.gnuplot.info/ GnuPlot] — a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility.
* [http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ Grace] — a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System.

===Backup Software===
* [http://rsync.samba.org/ rsync] — an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.

===Database management systems===
* [http://www.mysql.com/ MySQL AB] — database server.
* [http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ The phpMyAdmin Project] — a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Internet.
* [http://www.sqlite.org/ SQLite] — a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.

===PDF===
* [http://www.ghostscript.com/ Ghostscript] — a suite of free software based on an interpreter of the Adobe PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.

===Scientific Text Editors===
* [http://www.latex-project.org/ LaTeX Project] — a high-quality typesetting system, with features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation.

===Science===
* [http://edu.kde.org/kalzium/ Kalzium] — a periodic table of the elements for KDE.
* [http://edu.kde.org/kstars/ KStars] — a planetarium program that runs under GNU/Linux and other Unix like operating systems.

===Groupware===
* [http://www.opengroupware.org/ OpenGroupware.org] — a free collaborative software (groupware) server for multiple clients.
* [http://www.phpbb.com/ phpBB] — a popular free and open source forum system using the PHP scripting language and supporting a variety of database management systems.
* [http://www.phprojekt.com/ PHProjekt] — PHProjekt is a modular application for the coordination of group activities and to share informations and document via intranet and internet.

===Weblog systems===
* [http://wordpress.org/ WordPress] — a web publishing system (a.k.a. content management system) written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database.

===Image Galleries===
* [http://gallery.menalto.com/ Gallery Project] — an open source PHP project enabling simple management and publication of photographs and other digital media through a PHP-enabled Apache.

===Webgrabber===
* [http://www.httrack.com/ HTTrack] — a free software and open source website copier and offline browser.
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ Wget] — a free software program that implements simple and powerful content retrieval from web servers.

===Web-related===
* [http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache HTTP Server] — a free software/open source HTTP web server.
* [http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ AWStats] — an open source web analytics reporting tool, suitable for analyzing data from Internet services such as web, streaming media, mail and ftp servers.

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 *[http://www.phpdoc.org/ phpDocumentor]
 *[http://swat.silverorange.com/ Swat - Web Application Toolkit] &mdash; by silverorange
 ===Web applications===
 *[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]

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 *[http://www.phpdoc.org/ phpDocumentor]
 *[http://swat.silverorange.com/ Swat - Web Application Toolkit] &mdash; by silverorange
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 * [http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ AWStats] &mdash; an open source web analytics reporting tool, suitable for analyzing data from Internet services such as web, streaming media, mail and ftp servers.
-== External links ==
+==External links==
-* [[wikipedia:List of open source software packages]]
+*[[wikipedia:List of open source software packages]]
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	This category will be about all things '''Open Source''' (or '''Open Source Software'''/'''OSS'''). I will include links to and reviews of my favourite OSS projects.		This category will be about all things '''Open Source''' (or '''Open Source Software'''/'''OSS'''). I will include links to and reviews of my favourite OSS projects.
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		+	==The Cathedral and the Bazaar==
		+	— By Eric Steven Raymond
		+	# "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." (aka "Necessity is the mother of invention")
		+	# "Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)."
		+	# "Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow." (Fred Brooks, ''The Mythical Man-Month'', Chapter 11)
		+	# "If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you."
		+	# "When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor."
		+	# "Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging."
		+	# "Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers."
		+	# "Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone." (aka "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" aka "Linus's Law")
		+	# "Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around."
		+	# "If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource."
		+	# "The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better."
		+	# "Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong."
		+	# "Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
		+	# "Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected."
		+	# "When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible—and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!"
		+	# "When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend."
		+	# "A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets."
		+	# "To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you."
		+	# "Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet, and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one."

	== Top OSS projects ==		== Top OSS projects ==

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 * [http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache HTTP Server] &mdash; a free software/open source HTTP web server.
 * [http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ AWStats] &mdash; an open source web analytics reporting tool, suitable for analyzing data from Internet services such as web, streaming media, mail and ftp servers.
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	* [http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ AWStats] — an open source web analytics reporting tool, suitable for analyzing data from Internet services such as web, streaming media, mail and ftp servers.		* [http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ AWStats] — an open source web analytics reporting tool, suitable for analyzing data from Internet services such as web, streaming media, mail and ftp servers.
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	This category will be about all things '''Open Source''' (or '''Open Source Software'''/'''OSS'''). I will include links to and reviews of my favourite OSS projects.		This category will be about all things '''Open Source''' (or '''Open Source Software'''/'''OSS'''). I will include links to and reviews of my favourite OSS projects.
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		+	== Top OSS projects ==
		+	# [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
		+	# [http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Firefox]
		+	# [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice.org]
		+	# [http://www.bittorrent.com/ BitTorrent] — a client application for the torrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol.
		+	# [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki]
		+	# [http://www.xvid.org/ XviD] — an open-source MPEG-4 video codec.
		+	# [http://www.phpbb.com/ phpBB]
		+	# [http://www.opensuse.org/ openSUSE.org] — a community project, sponsored by Novell, to develop and maintain SUSE Linux.
		+	# [http://www.dynebolic.org/ dyne:bolic] — a LiveCD GNU/Linux distribution geared towards multimedia production with a useful assortment of applications for creative users.
		+	# [http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP] — a free software bitmap graphics editor, a program for creating and processing raster graphics.
		+	# [http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache HTTP Server]
		+	# [http://sourceforge.net/ SourceForge] — a collaborative software development management system.

	==List of OSS projects==		==List of OSS projects==