The Best OSS Tools by Category - 0.2 - (2002-05-04)

Post date: Nov 28, 2008 12:19:59 PM

The stared (*) tools are not completely open source, though free in some sense.

• • Browser : *Netscape 6.2.2, Mozilla

  • Document File Format : XHTML + CSS

  • WYSIWYG XHTML Editor : AbiWord

  • Complete Office Package : *StarOffice 5.2, OpenOffice.org

  • Programming IDE : jEdit 4.0, NetBeans

  • Compilers : J2SDK 1.4 (Java), GNU Compiler Collection - GCC

  • Image File Format : PNG (static), MNG, *GIF (Animated)

  • Image Editor : GIMP

  • Build Tool : Apache-Jakarta-Ant 1.4.1, GNU Make (of GCC collection)

  • UML Editor : BlueJ, ArgoUML

  • XML Parser Transformer : XALAN for Java and C

  • In Memory Cache : XML DOM

  • Database : XML, Interbase (firebird?)

  • E Books : Project Guttenberg (ASCII Text), HTML Writers Guild (XML)

  • Utilities (Compression, Converters...) : MinGW, GnuWin32 utilities (Source Forge)

  • Operating System : Linux

  • Application Server : JBoss 3.0 (Java)

  • Compiler Compiler : JavaCC 2.0

  • Security Architecture : GNU Privacy Gaurd

  • Servlet Container : Apache Tomcat

  • Web Server : Apache

  • Test Harness : JUnit (Java)