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3 unusual facts about SourceForge


NupeCode

NuNupedia was implemented for testing at SourceForge, but never reached sufficient development to replace the original software.

Savane

GNU Savane, a free web-based software hosting system used by GNU Savannah (forked from SourceForge)

Tenés Empanadas Graciela

Some developers, graphic artists and translators joined the project located at SourceForge's servers and made it a success.


AOLserver

NaviServer (also hosted on SourceForge) is a fork of AOLserver.

ArchOne

In the three releases, we can find a common selection of software: Firefox, Google Chrome, Skype, KeepassX, Hsoconnect, Gparted, GIMP, OpenOffice.org, VLC, MPlayer (the complete list of packages is available in the home project at sourceforge.net).

Core fonts for the Web

Even though the fonts are available from some third-party web sites (such as an anonymous SourceForge project) and are included with Mac OS, Håkon Wium Lie (Chief technical officer of Opera Software) cited the cancellation of the project as an example of Microsoft resisting interoperability.

Joseph Barr

Joe Barr (1944–2008), editor and writer for the SourceForge sites, Linux.com, and the IT Managers Journal

ReCaged

In the same year the project was also moved from SourceForge to the nongnu domain on GNU Savannah.

Roblimo

Robin "Roblimo" Miller (born October 30, 1952) was the Editor in Chief of Open Source Technology Group, the company that owns Slashdot, SourceForge.net, freshmeat, Linux.com, NewsForge, and ThinkGeek from 2000 to 2008.

Ryan C. Gordon

icculus.org is Ryan C. Gordon's personal website and a project incubator not unlike Sourceforge.net and GNU Savannah.

Salix OS

All development for Salix OS is done in an open & cooperative manner & is hosted on Sourceforge SVN.

StrangeSearch

Seek42 (Linux-based, developed at the University of Missouri–Rolla, also available on SourceForge. Now maintained by one of the authors of the now defunct Seekant.)

Sugarscape

Sugarscape.sourceforge.net is a complex and developed implementation of the original Sugarscape model, originally written in Object Pascal and later in Java by Mark A. O'Neill.


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