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What's your favorite Open Source library or application?

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  • J John M Drescher

    bacula. www.bacula.org[^]

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    Amusing name! Reminded me of a (ironically) funny '70s movie of nearly the same title.


    "I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon

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      Amusing name! Reminded me of a (ironically) funny '70s movie of nearly the same title.


      "I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon

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      John M Drescher
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      This was intentional. It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your computers. http://bacula.org/rel-manual/index.html[^]

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      • M Marc Clifton

        Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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        Fernando A Gomez F
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        The Windows Template Library, of course.

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        • J Judah Gabriel Himango

          Firefox. :cool:

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          John M Drescher
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          That was my second choice for the application category.

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            Wow, that's pretty broad. The GIMP is probably my all-time favorite open-source app - before there was a usable Windows build, i would keep at least one Linux install around just for that app. Of course, in terms of time spent, i use Firefox more than just about any other app, open-source or otherwise. There are all sorts of good libraries - i'm having fun with ZedGraph right now - but i'm not sure what i'd put down as my favorite.

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            QuiJohn
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            +1 for The GIMP. I use the Windows version at home and at work, and it's not without its annoying glitches, but I've gotten better and better at using it. I have zero training as a graphic artist, but feel like I can churn out some pretty cool stuff now. I never would have gotten into it with something I would have to pay for like Photoshop.


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            • M Marc Clifton

              Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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              Zoltan Balazs
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              Applications: Firefox, Thunderbird, PdfCreator Tools, libraries: NAnt, ZedGraph

              Network integrated solutions A practical use of the MVC pattern

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              • M Marc Clifton

                Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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                Pete OHanlon
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                NUnit, The GIMP, ActiveRecord.

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                • M Marc Clifton

                  Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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                  Todd Smith
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                  If I can only pick one, I'd have to go with Python. But there's sooo many others: MySQL, Apache, Zlib, Subversion, NAnt, CruiseControl, wiki(s), boost, LUA...

                  Todd Smith

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                  • M Marc Clifton

                    Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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                    El Corazon
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                    Only one? Applications Nasa World Wind freemind for brainstorms (thus mentioned below). TrueCrypt for encripted volumes FreeCommander for dual-pane file browsing SyncBack for syncing up portable drives 3DEM for browsing 3D elevation data and sometimes imagery. Various subversion clients Libraries: OpenSceneGraph for 3D drawing Boost for misc. GDAL for geographic imagery/elevation Zlib Qt

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                    • M Marc Clifton

                      Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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                      Chris Losinger
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                      JpegLib, zLib, LibPng, InnoSetup

                      image processing toolkits | batch image processing | blogging

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                        Only one? Applications Nasa World Wind freemind for brainstorms (thus mentioned below). TrueCrypt for encripted volumes FreeCommander for dual-pane file browsing SyncBack for syncing up portable drives 3DEM for browsing 3D elevation data and sometimes imagery. Various subversion clients Libraries: OpenSceneGraph for 3D drawing Boost for misc. GDAL for geographic imagery/elevation Zlib Qt

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                        Lost User
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                        El Corazon wrote:

                        Qt

                        is open source? :confused:

                        Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy The people in the lounge said I should google for the answer to a programming question but I do not know what search engine to use

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                          El Corazon wrote:

                          Qt

                          is open source? :confused:

                          Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy The people in the lounge said I should google for the answer to a programming question but I do not know what search engine to use

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                          El Corazon
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                          Wes Aday wrote:

                          is open source?

                          yes, you can download the full source, and recompile under linux and windows using GNU compilers only. But your project must be open source, they simply offer an additional commercial license with commercial use allowed (non GNU).

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                            Wes Aday wrote:

                            is open source?

                            yes, you can download the full source, and recompile under linux and windows using GNU compilers only. But your project must be open source, they simply offer an additional commercial license with commercial use allowed (non GNU).

                            _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                            Lost User
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                            I didn't know that. Thanks!

                            Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy The people in the lounge said I should google for the answer to a programming question but I do not know what search engine to use

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                            • T Todd Smith

                              If I can only pick one, I'd have to go with Python. But there's sooo many others: MySQL, Apache, Zlib, Subversion, NAnt, CruiseControl, wiki(s), boost, LUA...

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                              Chris Austin
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                              Same here, I’ve been coding in python off and on since 1999. Lately, I am working almost exclusively with stackess. -- modified at 16:32 Monday 30th July, 2007

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                              • M Marc Clifton

                                Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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                                Chris Austin
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                                Python: if I had to choose just one. There are dozens of tools and libs that I use one a daily basis that I'd be hard pressed to live without.

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                                • M Marc Clifton

                                  Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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                                  Roger Wright
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                                  BackOrifice; wonderfully useful tool, that...;)

                                  "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                                  • M Marc Clifton

                                    Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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                                    Rocky Moore
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                                    Thunderbird email client, SubText and DotNetNuke.. Those I use pretty much every day.

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                                    • M Marc Clifton

                                      Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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                                      Mike Dimmick
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                                      OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework[^]. Basically a lot of the bits that Microsoft deleted from the .NET Compact Framework. Nothing that we couldn't have done ourselves, but someone else having already done it seriously helps. Warning: quality in some areas is variable. I recently had the less-than-great pleasure of working with their RAPI wrapper (RAPI - Remote API - is a set of functions implemented by ActiveSync and a Windows CE device to allow the desktop to manipulate a connected device) where some functions were just not implemented correctly (example: the file timestamps were always wrong because the FILETIME structure had not been interpreted in the correct order).

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                                      • M Marc Clifton

                                        Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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                                        Paul Conrad
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                                        Probably ArgoUML, off the top of my head. Subversion has been a favorite in the past. Haven't used it much lately, though.

                                        "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                                        • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                                          Application: Eclipse (for Java development). The more Java development (in my free time ofcourse) I do more I like Eclipse. Library: jQuery/Prototype (all Ajax Libraries)

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                                          David Stone
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                                          Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

                                          jQuery

                                          Amen. :) We use jQuery in CPhog quite a bit now.

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