I personally believe the most successful OSS project

[poofyhairguy]

Is the OSS encyclopedia. Wikipedia.

http://www.qwikly.com/WikiPulse.html

Its 2% of Google (amazing!). This summary taken from another site explains it well:



Averaging 60-70 megabits per second over a whole month. Peaks at 320 megabits per second in extreme cases. Typical daily peaks in the 120 megabit per second range. 6 months ago it was more than 200 million database queries per day and it's probably several times that today.

Amazing. This is the golden standard I guess.

Too bad the Ubuntu Linux page is kinda light:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Linux

But I guess its better than some person getting on there and making a bullet point that says "Linux 4 noobs" or something bad like that.

Wikipedia is the best example of Linus's Law:

"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"

Its nice to have some evidence that this is correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law

[tkiesel]

I've come to love Wikipedia recently. Indeed the page for Ubuntu (the GNU/Linux distro rather than the philosophy) is a bit light. We can all help with that, I imagine. What irks me a bit is the details about the Ubuntu Calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Linux#Ubuntu-calendar). I'm making inroads to using Ubuntu at the school district I teach at, but seeing it referred to as "the porn distribution" makes adoption in an educational setting difficult. Of course, I can explain the public misperception, and the rubber meets the road in performance, not what people called the distro early in its life cycle due to the art. Given the popularity of Wikipedia though, it's regrettable that that's the first impression that will be made.

[poofyhairguy]

I've come to love Wikipedia recently. Indeed the page for Ubuntu (the GNU/Linux distro rather than the philosophy) is a bit light. We can all help with that, I imagine. What irks me a bit is the details about the Ubuntu Calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Linux#Ubuntu-calendar). I'm making inroads to using Ubuntu at the school district I teach at, but seeing it referred to as "the porn distribution" makes adoption in an educational setting difficult.

Yeah...thats not good. It would be nice if they had the more recent circle picture with the kids.

Where is one?

[sapo]

btw.. wikiquote rules too :grin:

http://en.wikiquote.org/

;)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

[poofyhairguy]

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds


This one is good:



"[...] the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it."

[poofyhairguy]

Thanks to you, I found out what a kernel is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolithic_kernel

[sapo]

Thanks to you, I found out what a kernel is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolithic_kernel


nice.. for windows users kernel is that freaking file that aways crash.. "kernel32.exe" i think :roll:

[tkiesel]

This one amuses me (and my wife, who is moving 100% to Ubuntu in less than 24 hours!!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_operating_systems_%28security%29

[sapo]

This one amuses me (and my wife, who is moving 100% to Ubuntu in less than 24 hours!!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_operating_systems_%28security%29

lol.. windoz have unpatched vulnerabilities from december.. 6 months.. omfg ](*,)

[tkiesel]

lol.. windoz have unpatched vulnerabilities from december.. 6 months.. omfg ](*,)

Look again. December 2002. That's 30 months! ;-)

(Not counting the one/s from September 2002 rated "not critical" of course.)

[kvidell]

I like Wikipedia because there's a specific Wiki Page for about 90% of _EVERYTHING THAT HAS EVER APPEARED IN DOCTOR WHO_

It's amazing.
Really obscure **** has pages... and when the new series was airing, everytime a new Character showed up, there was a page for it with _lots_ of detail only minutes after the airing had completed... along with a full episode synopsis...

The Wiki community scares and amazes me sometimes.

<3 Wiki. <3 Doctor Who. I miss Eccelston already :-\
Tennants has big, new teeth ;)
- Kev

[Lovechild]

Wikipedia is cool but I think it's mostly succesful as an open collaboration project, not as an Open source project. As open source goes I'm inclined to put Apache or the Linux kernel as the most succesful projects.

[poofyhairguy]

Wikipedia is cool but I think it's mostly succesful as an open collaboration project, not as an Open source project.

What is the difference?


As open source goes I'm inclined to put Apache or the Linux kernel as the most succesful projects.

I prefer openoffice and firefox to both.

[Lovechild]

What is the difference?



I prefer openoffice and firefox to both.

a) you build knowledge not code (coding is application of knowledge).

Think of it this way, wikipedia the open source project (the code that runs wikipedia) vs. wikipedia the open collaboration project (the articles).

b) Apache pretty much drove Linux adaption on the server market, I'm not basing on preference but on impact - if I had to pick a favorite I would say GNOME.

You did specifically say "succesful" not "favorite" - objective vs. subjetive

[poofyhairguy]

Think of it this way, wikipedia the open source project (the code that runs wikipedia) vs. wikipedia the open collaboration project (the articles).

Thanks. Thats a good explination.


b) Apache pretty much drove Linux adaption on the server market, I'm not basing on preference but on impact - if I had to pick a favorite I would say GNOME.

You did specifically say "succesful" not "favorite" - objective vs. subjetive

Good call. I did mess up there.

[Lovechild]

Another program that really does well is gaim, I can't tell you how impressed people are with that one. I've had several people install it on Windows now who are willing to try Linux as well after they see how well open source software works compared to closed alternatives. (if you ever used the official MSN client you'll know how much more pleasant experience gaim is)