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Most Important Open Source Projects of 2011

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Please change the title of this to "Important Open Source Projects of 2011" per http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Linkbait titles suck.

2012 is definitely the year of linux desktop

I think I've been hearing people say that for at least the past 10 years.

I think that was the joke.

obviously :)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xm7oor_you-should-install-l...

Well, I think that most of android devices spend their time sitting on top of a desk.

OpenStack

OpenStack might be really important conceptually, and it might have an impressive number of backers, but they really, really need to get something usable in production environments out, and soon.

At the moment I think it is hard to justify it being the 5th most important..

Theres already more than few OpenStack Swift deployments in production (at Rackspace, HP, etc).

Kind of a long way to go to slam Android. :-) (not being snarky per se, but would have preferred the author separate the last bit into a different blog post 'Why Android didn't make the top 10 list'

I pretty much agree with most of what is on this list. I might add Asterisk or Gcc. Not sure what I would delete though.

I do agree with what he said, Android isn't as open as it seems. Google didn't release the Honeycomb code because it "wasn't ready", yet allowed manufacturers to ship tablets with a version of it on there. And he also made a point when he said that Android is more "source open". Nobody can really influence the code unless they work for the company or a company close to Google.

And Gcc isn't really a "new" software so it's not for this list, but it's definitely an important one.

This is not true. I know people that have contributed code to Android that don't work for Google (etc.) and that have their code on released devices now. Sure, someone may have already fixed the bug by the time you get to see the source code, but if the bug is obscure enough, your code is as good as anyone else's. (Also, features are probably always welcome.)

so a couple of guys fixed a couple of bugs. even if it were a thousand, bug fixes are not "influence" the code at all.

Cyanogen for example is much more open.

I'd argue that that is the big omission. Wherever you come down on Android itself, Cyanogenmod clearly meets the author's criteria for openness, is a technical standout in a new area and it has had a very big 2011.

Oye. Let's not start the "X Most Y of 2011" stuff. Every year we are bombarded by these badly written articles. Can we just skip this nonsense this year?

I doubt how many people really use Cassandra.

I believe MongoDB or Redis would be far more popular..

Definitely give my vote to Redis

I'm surprised not to see mongodb on the list.

What is this? LLVM doesn't get a shout out?

> What is this?

Yet another random "Top 10" list.

Sure enough.

What about chromium?

Uh oh, there may be more than 10 worthwhile open source projects. Oh noes!

Nothing had an impact in the course of 2011 like Android... now a cheap 100$ phones (often provided to customers for free by phone companies) can do 99% of what an iPhone 4s can do, and this is changing the world.

What, no bitcoin?

Puppet instead of chef? Color me surprised.

I'd add Redis and chef to the list.

"So to judge importance, I looked at projects that are influential, gaining in popularity, and/or technical standouts in new areas"

So put WebKit on the list. If the growth continues, total usage of WebKit based browsers will surpass 50% by the end of 2012.

I feel that LLVM should be on that list.

What! my favorite open source projet is not in there it sucks! What! "Most important" does actually means "Most important, in the eyes of the writer".

Oh dear.

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