Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares?

Posted by anujkk on Saturday January 21, 2012 @04:56AM
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Which open source applications you love the most?

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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by LarryMade on Saturday January 21, 2012 @02:14PM (#3494297)

Ubuntu, Inkscape, LibreOffice, GIMP, Thunderbird, Rhythmbox, Scribus, PHP, MySQL, K3b, Audacity, Phoenix Firestorm (SecondLife/OpenSim Client), Dokuwiki

Also - switching IDEs, was Quanta Plus, but am leaning toward Aptana - which is based on Eclipse

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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by dholowiski on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:10PM (#3501911)

How about Apache? I use it every day!

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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by bmelton on Saturday January 21, 2012 @07:59AM (#3493463)

Python. Nginx. Ubuntu. Android. Eclipse. TrueCrypt. Gzip. OpenSSH. PuTTY.

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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by gary__ on Saturday January 21, 2012 @10:58AM (#3493777)

Chromium and XMind.

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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by thiagofm on Saturday January 21, 2012 @08:11AM (#3493481)

windows

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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by pestaa on Saturday January 21, 2012 @09:40AM (#3493642)

How does "windows" qualify as an open source application? Certainly not as Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) I suppose.

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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by bmelton on Saturday January 21, 2012 @04:29PM (#3494686)

I suppose it depends on how you define 'open source', but Windows has released the source to those willing to sign an NDA and all that.

I know a few people with copies.

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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by dholowiski on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:09PM (#3501905)

No matter how you define open source, windows isn't it. At the best, it's been called 'shared source' in the cases you mentioned, but that is a long way from open source.

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Re:Ask HN: Your favorite open source applications/softwares? by bmelton on Monday January 23, 2012 @03:13PM (#3501928)

I agree, I was just trying to give the OP the benefit of the doubt.

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