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OPEN SOURCE SOFTARE
And about the ODP: The Open Directory Project is the most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web, compiled by a large global community of volunteer editors. The ODP powers core directory services for some the most popular portals and search engines on the Web, including Google, Lycos, DirectHit, HotBot, and hundreds of others.
http://osswin.sourceforge.net ‘The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!’ Here’s free software heaven—again, for true-blue Windows users. Yes, every software on this page—and there are a lot of them—is downloadable as a nice .exe (no .dmh or .swa that needs to be compiled and interpreted or whatever!). There are many categories of software—from audio editing to CD writing to compression to FTP clients to text editors to… this is an absolute must-visit, if only to waste your bandwidth downloading stuff! You’ll find some cool gems at this page—including the Lynx text-only Web browser, several powerful system utilities, some great and infinitely more powerful alternatives to Notepad and WordPad, and from the top of the page, ‘OSSwin now also has a separate games page. Go check it out and please promote the organization of an Open-Source-only LAN-party in your neighbourhood!’ For the scientifically-inclined…
Tim O’Reilly’s Articles http://tim.oreilly.com/opensource/index.csp A ton of articles, all to do with open source. A sampling of the article titles:
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