SourceForge's Hottest Five Apps

davidmwilliams points us to his story up on IT Wire about the top five most active open source projects on SourceForge. (Sourceforge.net and Slashdot are both owned by SourceForge Inc.) He writes, "It explains what they do and why they're useful. Most of these will be new to most people but all are definitely bursting with potential."

Well this is stupid

[The Real Toad King]

All they did was take the most active projects this week [sourceforge.net] and commented on them.

What was the point in this?

In case you forgot:

[Joe Snipe]

SourceForge.net and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG [ostg.com].

Also, this is neither news (let alone for nerds) or stuff that matters.

Re:Its spam

[eebra82]

Your problem is that you waste too much time bothering and then commenting. Yes, this news is sort of questionable but so is some news at CNN, CNet and other networks too.

The trick is to waste as little time as possible per news item you do not find interesting. No one gives a shit if you stop visiting Slashdot. I know I will, because I really enjoy the service as it is.

Perfection is an illusion.

Re:OSS P2P

[dintech]

One word: Bandwidth.

Go Azureus!

[mattgreen]

Let me tell you, I've always wanted a Java P2P client. My biggest irk with uTorrent is it doesn't take up enough resources. Honestly, I can't believe the developers of uTorrent had the nerve to not put an entire plug-in architecture into it. They're totally missing the boat here.

Besides, everyone KNOWS that the more design patterns you use, the better your program is!

Re:OSS P2P

[orra]

When there are new releases of a Linux distro, lots of people want to try it out. Despite having lots of mirrors, projects can crumble.

BitTorrent helps.

Re:Go Azureus!

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me tell you, I've always wanted a C++ P2P client. My biggest urk with Azureus is that it's just not fast enough. Some people may like to open their P2P client and let it just sit in the background, but I like to open and close it all day long, so that startup time is very important to me. I also like looking at my system resources and marveling and how much RAM I'm not using, so it's very important that my P2P client uses 500 kB of RAM rather than 4 MB when it's minimized. Why, that's almost enough space for Firefox to open another tab. They're totally missing the boat here.

Besides, everyone KNOWS that the less your client is capable of doing, the better it is. Nobody really needs a web-based interface for remotely managing torrents or an SSL-capable tracker!

Re:Well this is stupid

[devilspgd]

Its kind of like doing a music chart by looking at who's spending the most time in the studio (or maybe who's smashing up the most hotel rooms?).

Would that be better or worse then basing it on who is paying radio stations the most this week?