25 free open source projects IT pros will love

By | Network World US
Published 17:04,

SourceForge expert points out 25 lesser-known projects for IT folks

  • LEAF
  • Freeplane
  • FOG
  • Advanced Onion Router
  • Eraser
  • Dmg2iso
  • TurboCASH Accounting
  • Snoopy
  • Iometer
  • Create Synchronicity
  • Burn
  • Hugin
  • Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server
  • Blat
  • UltraDefrag
  • FREE!ship
  • Classic Shell
  • SNARE
  • ZBar
  • Icinga
  • WinDirStat
  • WinMerge
  • FreeCAD
  • Audacity
  • Pingus
  • Play
  • Play
  • Backward
  • Forward

Although it's popular these days to pooh-pooh the advertising-supported, for-profit SourceForge in favour of GitHub, the SourceForge folks want to remind you that the forge still hosts more than 300,000 projects and serves up a good four million downloads a day. We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own.

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