Open Source Links
Helpful links for information on open source
Here are a number of helpful links to Open Source communities, resources, and information sources.
- Open Source Initiative (OSI) ratifies all open source licenses and maintains the inventory of all approved licenses
- Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), the home of Linux's founder Linus Torvalds, promotes the adoption of Linux and fosters the Linux development community
- SourceForge.net is the largest repository for open source projects and provides resources to foster open source projects
- The GNU project supplies many of the tools included in Linux distributions and is an effort of the Free Software Foundation
- The Apache Software Foundation provides support for a large number of open source projects including widely projects such as Apache Web Server, Tomcat, Struts, and Ant among others
- The Mozilla project products for the desktop include the Firefox browser
- ObjectWeb is a consortium dedicated to the creation of open source distributed application infrastructure and middleware
- Free Standards Group is dedicated to creating and promoting standards that accelerate the adoption of open source. Among their projects, are tools to increase binary compatability of Linux distributions
- Newsforge has news on open source across a range of topics
- Google's open source provides links to some very useful websites providing a wealth of information on open source projects
- The Eclipse Foundation has a collection of projects, most notably the Eclipse IDE, for a development platform and application frameworks
- Swik.net is a community driven site containing a catalog of open source projects that is searchable.
- Java-source.net and CSharp-source.net have categorized open source catalogs for those respective languages.
