The Open Source Community

	Friday September 10, 2010

Samba is essentially a TCP/IP file and print server for Microsoft Windows clients. In fact, it can support any SMB/CIFS-enabled client. One of Samba's big strengths is that you can use it to blend your mix of Windows and Linux machines together without requiring a separate Windows server.

Scribus (KDE) is a Page Layout program for GNU/Linux®, similar to Adobe® PageMaker, QuarkXPress or Adobe® InDesign, except that it is published under the GNU GPL.

Scribus offers support for professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, sophisticated "press-ready" PDF creation, EPS and PDF import/export and creation of color separations and optionally very complete ICC color management - thanks to littlecms, the first for an open source application.

Sendmail (Linux, BSD, Solaris, Aix) the first killer email application. For over twenty years, the most common program used to handle this was sendmail, written by Eric Allman. Over this time, sendmail has become a fully fledged language, with a very inelegant syntax. It is a SMTP transfer agent, which means it is responsible for transfering mail across networks and passes it off to a mail delivery agent, normally running POP3 or IMAP for delivery to users.

Seven (7-Zip) (Windows, Linux) is a file archiver with high compression ratio. Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB. For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip Self-extracting capability for 7z format. Integration with Windows Shell. Powerful File Manager. Powerful command line version. Plugin for FAR Manager. Localizations for 57 languages.

Shareaza (Windows) is the most luxurious and sophisticated file sharing system you'll find. It can harness the power of up to four separate peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, including EDonkey2000, Gnutella, BitTorrent and Shareaza's native network, Gnutella2 (G2).

Slackware Linux by Patrick Volkerding is an advanced Linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power, Slackware brings the best of all worlds to the table.

Slashdot is owned by Open Source Development Network, Inc. ("OSDN").In the beginning there was no Slashdot. Bored and confused geeks would scribble "First Post" in the sand. Grits were strictly for consumption and there wasn't a place to get nerd oriented news. Then in September of 97 Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda changed all that. With the help of Jeff "Hemos" Bates and others, Slashdot has stumbled forward with the simple mission to provide 'News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters'.

SmoothWall Express (Linux) is an open source firewall distribution based on the GNU/Linux operating system. Linux is the ideal choice for security systems; it is well proven, secure, highly configurable and freely??? available as open source code. SmoothWall includes a hardened subset of the GNU/Linux operating system, so there is no separate OS to install. Designed for ease of use, SmoothWall is configured via a web-based GUI, and requires absolutely no knowledge of Linux to install or use.

Snort (Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD, Solaris, AIX, Mac) is an open source network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more.

Sodipodi (Linux, Windows) is a vector-based drawing program, like CorelDraw® or Adobe Illustrator® from the proprietary software world, and Sketch or Karbon14 from the free software world. It is free software, distributed under the terms of the Gnu General Public License, Version 2.

It has a relatively modern display engine, giving you finely antialiased display, alpha transparencies, vector fonts and so on. Sodipodi is written in C, using the Gtk+ toolkit and optionally some Gnome or KDE libraries.

Softpanorama is an "anti-hype" self-education oriented CS site that tries to counter the current "software over-complexity" drive (or at least might help to keep you afloat longer ;-). "Slighly skeptical" approach makes it different from most of the open source sites in which people primarily seek out points of view to which they already subscribe.

Songbird (Linux, Windows, Mac) is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source. - MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, WMA, and more. Can you teach Songbird to sing? - Drag-and-drop songs from the Library or another playlist to your create your own custom mixes. - Filter your collection by Genre, Artist, Album, and Song or Search-As-You-Type.

Sorcerer is a source-based Linux distribution for system administrators. The sources are downloaded directly from software authors' homepages and mirrors. Then, they are compiled with the architecture and optimizations that the system administrator specifies. Finally, it is installed, tracked, and archived for easy removal and upgrades. Sorcerer has both command line and menu driven source mangement programs.

Source Mage GNU/Linux is a source based distribution of Linux. It has many powerful features that set it apart from other distros. Source code is always downloaded from the publisher's website, so you are always getting the latest and greatest version of software packages unlike other distributions that ship with outdated packages. SMGL also includes many advanced features such as self-healing and automatic dependencies.

SourceForge is the world's largest Open Source software development web site, providing free hosting to tens of thousands of projects. The mission of SourceForge.net is to enrich the Open Source community by providing a centralized place for Open Source developers to control and manage Open Source software development. To fulfill this mission goal, we offer a variety of services to projects we host, and to the Open Source community.

SourceForge.net provides free hosting to Open Source software development projects. The concept of 'Open Source' promotes the benefits of collaborative development by ensuring that potential end-users are able to obtain and use software, and that the software may be improved and expanded to meet the needs of its users. Collaboration within the Open Source community (developers and end-users) promotes a higher standard of quality, and helps to ensure the long-term viability of both data and applications.

SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine. A complete database is stored in a single disk file. Database files can be freely shared between machines with different byte orders. The SQLite distribution comes with a standalone command-line access program that can be used to administer an SQLite database and which serves as an example of how to use the SQLite library.

Squid (Linux) is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process.

Squid keeps meta data and especially hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests. Squid supports SSL, extensive access controls, and full request logging. By using the lightweight Internet Cache Protocol, Squid caches can be arranged in a hierarchy or mesh for additional bandwidth savings.

Stellarium (Linux, Mac, Windows) Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

Sun sponsors a variety of programs designed to encourage innovation throughout the developer community. From Open Source projects, which supports innovation and rapid development, to Community Source Licensing, which provides some infrastructure support around a community of common interest.

Suse Linux is one of the world's leading providers of Linux software and services. With the largest dedicated Linux research and development team, SUSE delivers enterprise-ready software and services that harness the innovation, speed-to-market and independence of the open source community.