Today, again we will continue exploring and making known, 2 useful and interesting websites, which function as gigantic project catalogs (developments, applications, systems) of open source software, which are called: "Open Source Libs and Open Source Agenda".
"Open Source Libs and Open Source Agenda" they are very similar to another, called «Awesome Open Source (AOS) », to which we already dedicated a previous publication.
It is worth noting, before explaining in detail to both sites, "Open Source Libs and Open Source Agenda", who «Awesome Open Source » was described by us, in said previous post, as follows:
"Awesome Open Source is a website that offers a fabulous and huge catalog of Open Source applications, classified in more than 7000 topics (topics) under 59 categories, for a total of more than 340.000 projects registered so far."
However, currently «Awesome Open Source» reports to date, more than 370.804 registered projects.
Open Source Libs and Open Source Agenda: Open Projects
What is Open Source Libs?
Upon entering the site «Open Source Libs» o "Open Source Libraries", it shows the following brief description:
"Open Source Libs is a massive collection of the best open source software in the world."
More about Open Source Libraries
However, its creators add that, the same:
"It is a massive public resource for all types of developers. And its goal is to help discover incredible open source projects, which would otherwise be difficult to find. Therefore, Open Source Libs is ideal to help anyone discover great open source tools, projects, libraries, frameworks and scripts that can be used in their own projects."
"Open Source Libs" offers a simple and direct search through its 12 sections (boxes) of content, which have a total of 59 categories. Basically, it has a content very similar to «Awesome Open Source » with less functionality, such as, search bar and grouping of searches by combined topics.
What is Open Source Agenda?
Upon entering the site «Open Source Agenda», it shows the following brief description:
"Open Source Agenda (Open Source Agenda, in Spanish), makes it easy for you to discover the best free open source projects. Get to know more than 193.798 free projects organized in more than 87.096 topics. "
More about Open Source Agenda
Unlike, «Awesome Open Source » y "Open Source Libs", "Open Source Agenda" it only offers the visualization of its content through a search bar.
However, it does have several useful and interesting complementary sections, such as:
- Un blog, y
- Una free and open alternatives section proprietary, closed and commercial software.
Also offers informative content on:
- The best open source projects,
- The most recent open source projects that have been added to the web, and
- The most recent open source projects that have been updated on it.
As we can see, when it comes to searching open source alternatives For proprietary, closed, and commercial software, these 3 great websites (Awesome Open Source, Open Source Libs y Open Source Agenda»
) can be very useful, despite not having any support for other languages, or at least for the Spanish language.
We hope this "useful little post" on the 2 websites named «Open Source Libs y Open Source Agenda»
, which function as gigantic catalogs of open source software projects (developments, applications, systems); is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto»
and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux»
.
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