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dniMretsaM
August 23rd, 2011, 03:34 PM
On my blog I have pages with lists of free software and free OS's. They are obviously not complete, but I'm still looking to expand them. Please have a look at the pages and either leave a comment with your suggestions there or just reply here. For the software page, I'm not going to put all of the suggested programs in. I'm trying to keep the list relatively small, so I'm trying to use only the major programs in each category. For the OS page, I'll probably be putting most of the suggestions in, but again, nothing too obscure. Thanks in advance!

Breaking the Chains (http://tech-freedom.blogspot.com/p/breaking-chains.html)
Free Operating Systems (http://tech-freedom.blogspot.com/p/free-operating-systems.html)

dniMretsaM
August 23rd, 2011, 08:06 PM
Apparently comments were turned off on the blog pages. That should be fixed now.

BeRoot ReBoot
August 23rd, 2011, 08:10 PM
Haha, you seriously believe you can list every GNU/Linux distribution out there? There's just too many to even begin. You could just copy the list from DistroWatch.

Also, GNU/Linux isn't the only Free OS out there. BSD (in all its Free variants), Hurd, Haiku etc spring to mind.

Thewhistlingwind
August 23rd, 2011, 08:15 PM
Listing every Linux distro is a task that will require a dedicated database, I doubt you can do it.

dniMretsaM
August 23rd, 2011, 08:24 PM
Listing every Linux distro is a task that will require a dedicated database, I doubt you can do it.

I don't want to list ALL of them, just a lot of the main ones. And also, I have FreeBSD and GNU listed. So I'm not only listing GNU/Linux distros.

BeRoot ReBoot
August 23rd, 2011, 08:28 PM
I don't want to list ALL of them, just a lot of the main ones. And also, I have FreeBSD and GNU listed. So I'm not only listing GNU/Linux distros.

Funny, I must have missed them because they were listed together with GNU/Linux distributions. Have you considered organising your list?

dniMretsaM
August 23rd, 2011, 08:31 PM
Funny, I must have missed them because they were listed together with GNU/Linux distributions. Have you considered organising your list?

They are in alphabetical order. I simply used the work "distribution" to mean operating system. I suppose I could give each type of OS it's own section.

BeRoot ReBoot
August 23rd, 2011, 08:59 PM
They are in alphabetical order. I simply used the work "distribution" to mean operating system. I suppose I could give each type of OS it's own section.

It's not "each type of OS", it's "each OS". Distributions aren't operating systems. GNU/Linux is an operating system, Debian, Gentoo and others are distributions of the GNU/Linux operating system.

dniMretsaM
August 23rd, 2011, 09:32 PM
It's not "each type of OS", it's "each OS". Distributions aren't operating systems. GNU/Linux is an operating system, Debian, Gentoo and others are distributions of the GNU/Linux operating system.

I change it some. Any better?

BeRoot ReBoot
August 23rd, 2011, 10:00 PM
Sorting it by OS does make much more sense.

dniMretsaM
August 23rd, 2011, 10:04 PM
Sorting it by OS does make much more sense.

Ok, glad it makes more sense. Do you have any additions?

dniMretsaM
August 24th, 2011, 02:49 PM
I have just added 11 OS's:
DOS-C
FreeDOS
Haiku
KolibriOS
MenuetOS
m0n0wall
NetBSD
OpenBSD
PC-BSD
PureDarwin
ReactOS

DangerOnTheRanger
August 24th, 2011, 04:13 PM
I have a FOSS game development kit - build with Lego-like bricks, with physics and scripting. Soon you'll be able to play with other people online. Would that qualify?

http://openblox.sourceforge.net (http://openblox.sourceforge.net/)

Thewhistlingwind
August 24th, 2011, 04:27 PM
Plan 9.

:popcorn:

dniMretsaM
August 24th, 2011, 04:27 PM
Plan 9.

:popcorn:

Added. I also added Poseidon Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Scientific Linux.


I have a FOSS game development kit - build with Lego-like bricks, with physics and scripting. Soon you'll be able to play with other people online. Would that qualify?

http://openblox.sourceforge.net (http://openblox.sourceforge.net/)

Sure thing. I'll add it to the list (under 2 new sections: Games and Game Development). BTW, that looks like a really cool program!

DangerOnTheRanger
August 24th, 2011, 05:00 PM
Sure thing. I'll add it to the list (under 2 new sections: Games and Game Development). BTW, that looks like a really cool program!

Thanks! :) 2 more little-known (but very promising) FOSS games for you:


Minetest (http://celeron.55.lt/%7Eceleron55/minetest/) - a FOSS alternative to Minecraft
VDrift (http://vdrift.net/) - a racing simulator. Definitely one of the best-looking FOSS games around

dniMretsaM
August 24th, 2011, 05:07 PM
Thanks! :) 2 more little-known (but very promising) FOSS games for you:


Minetest (http://celeron.55.lt/%7Eceleron55/minetest/) - a FOSS alternative to Minecraft
VDrift (http://vdrift.net/) - a racing simulator. Definitely one of the best-looking FOSS games around



Ok added. Thanks for the links.

searchfgold6789
September 9th, 2011, 01:34 AM
OS:
Haiku, SliTaz

Apps:
Lilypond, music typesetter
VLC, advanced-yet-simple media player

What a fun project! I hope you succeed!

ilovelinux33467
September 10th, 2011, 03:30 AM
Mageia - http://www.mageia.org - A fork of Mandriva that is supported by the community.

dniMretsaM
September 10th, 2011, 05:34 PM
So today I added the following under "Media Taggers":
EasyTAG
eyeD3
id3tool
Kid3

Also 3 new games:
Angry Tux
SuperTuxKart
TuxKart


OS:
Haiku, SliTaz

Apps:
Lilypond, music typesetter
VLC, advanced-yet-simple media player

What a fun project! I hope you succeed!

I added LilyPond. The other things you listed I already had. Thanks for the contribution!


Mageia - http://www.mageia.org - A fork of Mandriva that is supported by the community.

Added this. Thanks!

JOHNNYG713
September 10th, 2011, 06:01 PM
):P Ultimate Edition ! ):P http://ultimateedition.info/ (http://ultimateedition.info/)

:D OZ Unity ! :D http://www.ultimateeditionoz.com/

dniMretsaM
September 10th, 2011, 06:09 PM
):P Ultimate Edition ! ):P http://ultimateedition.info/ (http://ultimateedition.info/)

:D OZ Unity ! :D http://www.ultimateeditionoz.com/

Added. Thank you!

Megaptera
September 10th, 2011, 06:39 PM
Crunchbang linux (Debian based) http://crunchbanglinux.org/

also "Ubuntu Privacy Remix (UPR) is a modified live DVD based on Ubuntu. Its goal is to provide a completely isolated working environment where private data can be dealt with safely and to protect data against unsolicited access. Networking is intentionally disabled and saving data to mounted volumes is not allowed. The live CD is not installable to hard disk."
Link via DistroWatch http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntupr

dniMretsaM
September 10th, 2011, 08:59 PM
I added UbuMonkey to the free web browsers group a little while ago.

EDIT: Just added Exaile (media manager).


Crunchbang linux (Debian based) http://crunchbanglinux.org/

also "Ubuntu Privacy Remix (UPR) is a modified live DVD based on Ubuntu. Its goal is to provide a completely isolated working environment where private data can be dealt with safely and to protect data against unsolicited access. Networking is intentionally disabled and saving data to mounted volumes is not allowed. The live CD is not installable to hard disk."
Link via DistroWatch http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntupr

CrunchBang Linux is already on the list, but I added UPR. Thanks a bunch!

Chimes
September 11th, 2011, 06:12 AM
I'm not saying you shouldn't make this site, but just so we all know, there are several sites which catalog FOSS software and distributions.

http://freshmeat.net/ already being one of the most famous ones...

There's sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/) (which doesn't catalog projects it doesn't host), distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com/) does distributions, wikipedia has a list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open_source_software_packages)

If your goal is not to be comprehensive, but instead you are talking specifically about curating a small, simple list of only a handful of reliable, quality and/or most popular software projects, there are also plenty of those.

The Ubuntu wiki maintains its own list of Windows programs (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ListOfOpenSourcePrograms), there's OSALT (http://www.osalt.com/databases), bestfreesoftwarelist (http://www.bestfreesoftwarelist.com/), ohloh (http://www.ohloh.net/p), Open Source Living (http://osliving.com/), OSSD (http://www.opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com/index.php), the open disc (http://www.theopendisc.com/) project, The FSF's (rather limited) directory (http://directory.fsf.org/) blog posts like this (http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/top-100-of-the-best-useful-opensource-applications/), website subpages like this (http://www.digitaldarknet.net/thelist/), and so on and so forth,

The nature of these lists is that they require regular maintenance and at the same time many of them are curated by one or a few individuals (rather, than, say, an organization or community). In other words for these sites, the people who have editing privileges to any given list often move on to other things in their life (especially if their site doesn't see a lot of traffic). As a list becomes longer, it takes more effort for an individual curator to keep up with the constant, global ebb and flow of different projects, as some close, new ones become prominent, other ones become out of date.

I'm not saying you shouldn't make this list. There's nothing wrong with it. I'm just not sure it fills any void is all.

Megaptera
September 11th, 2011, 07:30 AM
... I added UPR. Thanks a bunch!

You're welcome!

Tal500
September 11th, 2011, 10:09 AM
Read my comment

dniMretsaM
September 11th, 2011, 02:21 PM
I'm not saying you shouldn't make this site, but just so we all know, there are several sites which catalog FOSS software and distributions.

http://freshmeat.net/ already being one of the most famous ones...

There's sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/) (which doesn't catalog projects it doesn't host), distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com/) does distributions, wikipedia has a list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open_source_software_packages)

If your goal is not to be comprehensive, but instead you are talking specifically about curating a small, simple list of only a handful of reliable, quality and/or most popular software projects, there are also plenty of those.

The Ubuntu wiki maintains its own list of Windows programs (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ListOfOpenSourcePrograms), there's OSALT (http://www.osalt.com/databases), bestfreesoftwarelist (http://www.bestfreesoftwarelist.com/), ohloh (http://www.ohloh.net/p), Open Source Living (http://osliving.com/), OSSD (http://www.opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com/index.php), the open disc (http://www.theopendisc.com/) project, The FSF's (rather limited) directory (http://directory.fsf.org/) blog posts like this (http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/top-100-of-the-best-useful-opensource-applications/), website subpages like this (http://www.digitaldarknet.net/thelist/), and so on and so forth,

The nature of these lists is that they require regular maintenance and at the same time many of them are curated by one or a few individuals (rather, than, say, an organization or community). In other words for these sites, the people who have editing privileges to any given list often move on to other things in their life (especially if their site doesn't see a lot of traffic). As a list becomes longer, it takes more effort for an individual curator to keep up with the constant, global ebb and flow of different projects, as some close, new ones become prominent, other ones become out of date.

I'm not saying you shouldn't make this list. There's nothing wrong with it. I'm just not sure it fills any void is all.

These lists are more for people who may have stumbled across my blog and aren't yet interested enough in looking for a similar list themselves. It's not really meant to "fill any voids."

Chimes
September 11th, 2011, 04:18 PM
These lists are more for people who may have stumbled across my blog and aren't yet interested enough in looking for a similar list themselves.

makes sense.

dniMretsaM
September 12th, 2011, 02:40 AM
Ok, just added a bunch of stuff:

Desktop environments:
GNOME
GNOME Shell
Unity
KDE
Xfce

Media managers:
Xnoise

Terminal emulators:
GNOME Terminal
Konsole
Terminal (Xfce)
Terminator
xterm

Web Browsers:
Iceweasel
Lynx
Uzbl

Window Managers:
Blackbox
Enlightenment
Fluxbox
IceWM
KWin
Metacity
Mutter
Openbox
Sawfish

dniMretsaM
September 12th, 2011, 08:12 PM
Added some more things today:

Calender:
Iceowl

Desktop Environments:
ROX Desktop

Email:
Icedove

File Managers:
DolphinemelFM2
GNOME Commander
Konqueror
Krusader
Midnight Commander
Nautilus
PCMan File Manager
ROX-Filer
Thunar

Internet Suites:
Iceape
SeaMonkey

Media Managers:
gmusicbrowser
Guayadeque

Text Editors:
Edit

Video Editors:
OpenShot

Web Browsers:
Konqueror

Window Managers:
OroboROX

UP NEXT: Probably document viewers and picture managers.

dniMretsaM
September 20th, 2011, 02:26 AM
Added three document viewers:
Evince
Okular
Sumatra PDF

After a little searching I didn't find any other readers, they seem to be kind of lacking. So if you know of any others, please speak up.

Blasphemist
September 20th, 2011, 02:55 AM
I left comments on a distro to add and on an app to add.
Good work on the blog.

dniMretsaM
September 20th, 2011, 03:03 AM
I left comments on a distro to add and on an app to add.
Good work on the blog.

Both have been added. Thanks!

Azdour
September 20th, 2011, 12:05 PM
Hi,

Would it also make sense to have a FTP section, my personal favourite is FileZilla.

I also use amsn to keep in contact with my msn friends.

dniMretsaM
September 20th, 2011, 09:47 PM
Added the following today:

FTP Clients:
FileZilla
ftp
FtpCube
gFTP
KASABLANCA
Konqueror
Midnight Commander
yafc

Social:
aMSN

It seems that a lot of the FTP clients I found our old/no longer supported. Any links to newer ones would be appreciated (I'll probably replace the older ones like FtpCube).

Rasa1111
September 20th, 2011, 09:58 PM
http://www.hybryde.org/en/

seen that yet?
based on ubuntu.
just saw it today, looks pretty sweet.
from Italy i guess.

dniMretsaM
September 20th, 2011, 10:14 PM
http://www.hybryde.org/en/

seen that yet?
based on ubuntu.
just saw it today, looks pretty sweet.
from Italy i guess.

Woah that does look amazing! Anyway, added. I'll look into adding some of the software it mentions later (Boot-Repair, OS-Uninstaller, FleeX, etc.).