Background :SourceForge.net is a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development, and acts as a source code repository. SourceForge.net is operated by Sourceforge, Inc. and runs a version of the SourceForge software, forked from the last open-source version available.
A large number of open source projects are hosted on the site (it had reached 155,585 projects and 1,658,777 registered users as of August 2007, although it does contain many dormant or single-user projects.
SourceForge.net has offered free access to hosting and tools for developers of free software / open source software for several years, and has become well-known within such development communities for these services.
Competitors :
SourceForge.net competes with other providers
BerliOS
CodePlex
Google Code
GNU Savannah
RubyForge
Tigris.org
Top Projects :
There are lots of great opensource project hosted which have revolutionized the total computing industry, especially collaborative software development. You will be surprised to know the top 10 projects at sourceforge.
Following are the top 10 projects at sourceforge which demonstrates how some of the software applications are so popular:
eMule : is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client
Azureus : Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client.
Ares Galaxy : Filesharing-Bittorrent p2p client connected to TCP supernode/leaf network and UDP DHT network. Ares features a built-in directshow media player, a powerful library manager, shoutcast radio support and can be used to host p2p Chatrooms.
BitTorrent : BitTorrent is a tool for distributed download.
DC++ : Desktop video processing and capture application
Shareaza : Multi-network peer-to-peer ( p2p ) file-sharing client supporting Gnutella2, Gnutella, eDonkey2000 ( eMule ), HTTP, FTP and BitTorrent protocols. Using C++, MFC and ATL, for Windows.
VirtualDub : Desktop video processing and capture application.
GTK+ and The GIMP installers for Windows : Photo designing and editing software.
CDex: CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders.
7-Zip : 7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format.
1 Response to Top 10 Projects at Sourceforge
Fanatics of the P2P super power gave birth to the devil.
It is the strongest P2P file sharing system Share NT.
And, Because UDP is used, even the band limiting that the internet service provider does is exceeded.
Reference
Share (P2P) - Wikipedia
Share NT - 2ch.ru
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