Jon ‘maddog’ Hall’s Picks for Today’s Six Best OSS Projects

“You would think that writing a blog entry on “Hot New OSS
Projects” would not be that difficult. All you should have to do is
go to SourceForge or Freshmeat and see what projects are being
downloaded, or at least accessed, and write about them. Or, hangout
on Slashdot or LinuxDevices.com and see what cool things are being
shown and talked about. These days you can even read the mainstream
media about Linux products and projects. And of course there is the
Linux.com site with its news feeds, discussion groups and
projects.

“All of these would have been “too easy” for maddog, so of
course he had to do the unthinkable and ask his eclectic group of
Linux User Group (LUG) members what they thought were “Hot, New OSS
Projects.”

“The first message that came back from the “call for thoughts”
was:

“”What do you mean by OSS project?” followed by “What do you
mean by new?” and (of course) “What do you mean by Hot’?”

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