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Open Source Resources

Top open source websites and resources: from operating systems to desktop software to development tools to content management systems. It's not meant to be a comprehensive list but the bests/favorites and resources to find the rest. We plan to keep updating this page adding fresh, relevant, useful content.

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  • The Linux Home Page at Linux Online
    Comprehensive information and resources about the Linux Operating System.
  • Linux.com: Your Source for All Things Linux
    Linux.com is a product of the Linux Foundation. For the community, by the community, Linux.com strives to be the central source for informed, reasonable, and intelligent Linux information, software, documentation and answers across the server, desktop/netbook, mobile, and embedded areas.
  • The Linux Foundation
    A non-profit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux, and promoting standardization and technical collaboration.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux - The world's leading open source application platform built on Linux.
  • Fedora Project
    Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join.
  • Ubuntu
    Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system for laptops, desktops and servers. Applications include a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and more.
  • The FreeBSD Project
    Official home: the definitive resource for FreeBSD information. Descriptions, downloads, documents, community, developer resources, support.
  • OpenSolaris.org
    OpenSolaris is an operating system (OS), an open source project licensed under CDDL, and a community. The project's goals are innovation, collaboration, and the extension of OpenSolaris technology.
  • Debian
    Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software especially under the GNU General Public License and other free software licenses. The primary form, Debian GNU/Linux, which uses the Linux kernel and GNU OS tools, is a popular and influential GNU/Linux distribution.

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Web Browsers

Firefox
  • Mozilla Firefox
    Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. The Firefox Web Browser is a faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web.
  • Google Chrome
    Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google and based on the WebKit layout engine and application framework. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
  • Konqueror
    Konqueror is a web browser, file manager and file viewer designed as a core part of the K Desktop Environment. A web browser with HTML 4.0 compliance, supporting Java applets, JavaScript, CSS1 and (partially) CSS2, as well as Netscape plugins. (C++) [GNU/Linux]
  • K-Meleon
    K-Meleon is a fast and customizable lightweight web browser for Windows, based on the rendering engine of Mozilla.
  • Camino
    Camino is a Mac OS X-native browser built on Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.

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Content Management Systems

Drupal
  • Drupal
    Drupal is an open source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. The standard release of Drupal, known as "Drupal core", contains basic features common to most CMSs. These include the ability to register and maintain individual user accounts, administration menus, RSS-feeds, customizable layout, flexible account privileges, logging, a blogging system, an Internet forum, and options to create a classic "brochureware" website or an interactive community website.
  • Joomla
    Joomla is a free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model-view-controller (MVC) Web Application Development framework. The standard release of Drupal, known as "Drupal core", contains basic features common to most CMSs. These include the ability to register and maintain individual user accounts, administration menus, RSS-feeds, customizable layout, flexible account privileges, logging, a blogging system, an Internet forum, and options to create a classic "brochureware" website or an interactive community website.
  • Plone
    Plone is a free and open source Content Management System built on top of the open source application server Zope and the accompanying Content Management Framework. It is suited for an internal website or may be used as a server on the Internet, playing such roles as a document publishing system and groupware collaboration tool.
  • dotCMS
    dotCMS is a free and pen source web Content Management System (wCMS) solution built into LifeRay, a JSR-168-compatible portal. dotCMS includes features such as support for virtual hosting, WebDav (beta), structured content, clustering and can run on multiple databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle.
  • PHP-Nuke
    PHP-Nuke is a web-based automated news publishing and content management system based on PHP and MySQL. It is a content management and portal solution featuring web-based administration, surveys, customizable blocks, modules and themes with multilanguage support.
  • PHP-Fusion
    PHP-Fusion is a light-weight open-source content management system (CMS) written and developed by Nick Jones (also known as Digitanium) in PHP. It uses a MySQL database to store a web site's content and comes with a simple but comprehensive administration system. PHP-Fusion includes features common in many other CMS packages.
  • CMS Toolbox: 80+ Open Source Content Management Systems [Mashable]
  • Top 40 best open source content management systems (CMS) [BLORGE]
  • CMS Matrix - OSCOM - Open Source Content Management
  • Open Source CMS Award
  • The CMS Matrix - cmsmatrix.org - The Content Management Comparison Tool
    Very useful and informative comparison site - select up to 10 Content Management Systems among hundreds listed and compare their features side by side. CMS statistics and user ratings are also included.

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Open Source
  • SourceForge
    SourceForge.net. Fast, secure and free downloads from the largest Open Source applications and software directory.
  • GNU Project and Free Software Foundation
    Home of the GNU operating system, the GNU General Public License, and the Free Software Foundation. The Open Source Movement branched off from the Free Software Movement in 1998. The Linux kernel is normally used together with GNU.
  • Red Hat
    Red Hat is the world's leading open source technology solutions provider with offerings including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, open source applications, security and systems management, virtualization, Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, server and desktop operating systems, Java application software and services, and the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.

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