Free-software hackers like to brag about the robustness of their code. But a less-celebrated area where open-source programmers also shine is coming up with names for their applications.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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blueskynis
2 years 37 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago
Huh
Why do they call it "Ubuntu applications"? Those programs are Linux applications, not Ubuntu only.
can.axis
2 years 37 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago
Linux and the GNU Project
RMS: «... Linux is just the kernel, and the kernel is probably unrelated to this applications. So the relevant platform is the whole system, which is GNU/Linux.
Would you please call the system "GNU/Linux", and give us a share of
the credit? We did start its developent. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html for more explanation.»
blueskynis
2 years 37 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago
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I know, I know, but I was just too lazy to type GNU/.