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

posted 28 Nov 2008, 04:19 by S V Ramu   [ updated 28 Nov 2008, 04:20 ]

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)
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