Since 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).
|
| Guile on a Ben NanoNote Made popular 2 years 12 weeks ago |
|
| Scripting with Guile on Openmoko Made popular 2 years 24 weeks ago |
|
| Simple example of accessing gpsd from C code Made popular 2 years 26 weeks ago |
|
| Still no source code for the European Palm Pre Made popular 2 years 31 weeks ago |
|
| Why the London Stock Exchange went for Linux Made popular 2 years 32 weeks ago |
|
| Why Ubuntu has become the flag bearer for Linux Made popular 2 years 46 weeks ago |
|
| Improvements to GNU Guile Made popular 2 years 48 weeks ago |
|
| When accelerometers meet Twitter |
|
| When you see Flash, Duck and Cover Made popular 2 years 51 weeks ago |
|
| Find the distance of other users on Twitter Made popular 3 years 3 weeks ago |
|
| Building a Guile extension on an embedded device Made popular 3 years 17 weeks ago |
Read contents from Free Software Magazine
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.
Categories
Best karma users
From the staff of FSDaily: Comedians in Perth, Magicians in Perth, Bands in Perth
