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Projects on the Move Free Software Projects COMMUNITY An up-to-date look at free software and its makers PROJECTS ON THE MOVE Hundreds of thousands of registered users have chosen their favorite Sourceforge projects in 14 categories. Also in this issue: Linux electri- fied, and Freenet’s plans for freedom of speech on the web. We’ll also round up the latest Debian news. BY CARSTEN SCHNOBER AND MARTIN LOSCHWITZ he community has made its a trend to open source software for big an obstacle for some desktop users. choice! A major part of the free closed source systems. GUI-based programs and desktop envi- Tdeveloper community – totaling Representatives of some corporations ronments do what they can to help the over a million programmers current- and industrial associations have a simple user, but differences in the configuration ly registered with Sourceforge.net – were explanation for the popularity of file- tools can add even more confusion. asked to cast their votes for the most sharing clients: they see it as evidence Experienced users and admins typi- popular Sourceforge projects in 14 cate- that the open source scene is mainly cally know where to look for the re- gories. made up of pirates. A more realistic ex- quired configuration files, and how to Sourceforge organizers asked the com- planation of the results is that more and modify these files to suit their needs. But munity to choose between a preliminary more free projects are distributing soft- the process of learning the various syn- selection of the 40 most active projects. ware using Bittorrent and other fileshar- taxes used by applications and distribu- And if you accept the 250,000 voters as a ing services to avoid overtaxing their tions can still be a time-consuming, or representative cross-section, the results own servers’ bandwidth. even nerve-racking experience. Accord- make very interesting reading. The two The winners in the individual catego- ing to the developers of the Elektra proj- most popular projects, Azureus [1] (see ries were: the Zimbra Collaboration ect [5], the answer to this is a standard- Figure 1) and EMule [2], are platform- Suite, the Windows FTP client and ized configuration. independent filesharing clients. Third server Filezilla, the Bittorrent Queue Elektra’s role models are the Windows place went to 7-Zip [3], a free archiving Manager, the PHP Paypal API, WinSCP, Registry and the Gnome project GConf. tool for Windows. PHPMyadmin (in the categories Data- Both provide centralized configuration bases and System Administration), the management of the operating system or Open Windows XBox Media Center (Games and Multi- desktop, and in GConf’s case, let admin- The Sourceforge community apparently media), Wine for Darwin and Mac OS X, istrators use their preferred user inter- places a lot of emphasis on free software Linux for the Microsoft Xbox, the Aster- face. for the world’s most famous un-free op- isk GUI client, and the Gaim Instant Elektra uses an XML file that com- erating system. Most winners in the indi- Messenger. Details of the results are prises keys and assigned values for con- vidual categories run on Windows, some available from [4]. figuration elements of any kind. The file of them exclusively. Of course, the can be viewed and edited using the KDB Sourceforge vote does not tell how popu- Elektra command line tool, the KDBEdit front- lar these tools are with the masses of Configuring a Linux system, and the ap- end (Figure 2), a text editor, or applica- Windows users, but it is an indication of plications that run on it, can prove too tions that use the Elektra API. WWW.LINUX - MAGAZINE.COM ISSUE 68 JULY 2006 93 COMMUNITY Free Software Projects work comprising a nodes the freedom to restrict forwarding number of inde- of this kind of content. pendent peers. Development is currently making This aim poses a rapid progress, mainly thanks to Mat- few technical chal- thew Toseland, who works as a full-time lenges, which pro- developer for Freenet. Matthew’s wages, vided the inventor and thus the future Freenet, depend on of Freenet with ad- contributions. Donations of money, ditional impetus bandwidth, hard disk space, or program- for his work. ming skills are all welcome. Clarke discovered the perfect net- Debian News work technology Controversy erupted at Debian when An- for Freenet when dres Salomon requested the ousting of investigating an al- the well-known developer Sven Luther gorithm that was in March. Salomon’s reasoning for this developed years request was that Sven Luther’s behavior Figure 1: And the winner is: Azureus! The platform-independent Bit- ago. towards other Debian developers was torrent client was chosen as the most popular program by the Version 0.1 of impossible to tolerate and was threaten- Sourceforge community. the Java program ing to other developers. Salomon main- from the year 2000 tains various packages on the Debian ar- “Elektrafying” Linux, and the applica- was primarily a filesharing service that chive, although his major claim to fame tions that run on Linux, would eliminate guaranteed anonymity to its users. The came when he took over ndiswrapper. the need for distributors to develop GUI- alpha version of the 0.7 release, which Debian developers are not exactly based system configuration tools. Elektra was published in early April, imple- known for being squeamish, and as you patches for X.org and SysVinit are al- ments Freenet mostly from scratch and might expect, all hell broke loose shortly ready available, as are RPM packages for introduces a number of changes. Instead after Andres Salomons email was Mandriva, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, of using TCP, Freenet now uses UDP; a posted. The official developer list [7] CentOS, and Fedora. The developers aim more efficient routing algorithm mini- soon split in two warring fractions with to add support for major applications mizes problems with firewalls and NAT one camp confirming Salomon’s allega- such as Samba, and Gnome, and KDE, routers, and the new interface makes it tions, and coming down heavily in favor via GConf or KConfig XT. The project easier for programs to has called on programmers to help stan- use Freenet. Freenet dardize the configuration jungle by uti- surfers can either use lizing the Elektra interface. their browsers to access the Web interface for Freenet the Java-based Freenet The Internet has become an important software or opt for Tel- part of daily life for many people outside net. the fringe group of computer experts. The new API encour- The Internet’s breakthrough as an every- ages the growth of day medium has often been accompa- Freesites parallel to the nied by strict regulations. In the opinion World Wide Web, of some civil rights organizations, re- where both the pro- strictions placed on the use the Internet vider and the surfer re- are not only too strict in totalitarian re- tain their anonymity. gimes; Internet activists view govern- The Freenet develop- ment controls in western democracies ers are committed to as also dangerous to freedom of speech the concept of total in what used to be a quasi-anarchistic freedom of expression global network. and even view restric- This view is shared by Ian Clarke, who tions on pornographic, would like to contribute to freedom of racist, or violent con- speech on the Internet by guaranteeing tent as a first step to- anonymity. This was one of the two rea- wards censorship. sons that prompted him to start working However, they do point on Freenet [6]. Freenet is free software out that Freenet sup- Figure 2: Elektra is designed to standardize Linux system that uses the Internet as a carrier for a ports individual censor- configuration. The central XML file can be edited using a text self-enclosed Darknet: a dynamic net- ship, giving individual editor, the KDB command line tool, or the KDBEdit front-end. 94 ISSUE 68 JULY 2006 WWW.LINUX - MAGAZINE.COM Free Software Projects COMMUNITY A short time later, is dropped, works published under the Anthony Towns 4.77 the whole ruckus GFDL will be allowed in Debian. seemed to have been 6 settled – at least, there Debian Project Leader were no signs of offi- …Anthony Towns! Anthony won the 86 Steve McIntyre 107 4.49 cial steps being taken. election [8] to become Debian Project 107 109 182 But once more, nobody Leader 2006. In the Condorcet election has anything to gain proceedings, which probably appear 268 Jeroen van Wolffelaar 210 Andreas Schuldei 4.25 4.28 from the spectacle of equally complex to developers and ob- the expulsion process. servers alike, Towns beat his closest 291 109 123 The discussion stopped rival, Steve McIntyre, by a narrow mar- 244 Bill Allombert 246 some developers from gin of six votes. The gap to the other 3.38 putting in any mean- candidates was far bigger: the youngest 207 ingful work for a few candidate, Jeroen van Wolffelaar, came days. One very active closest, losing out by 86 votes. None of the Above member, Sven Luther, The poor turnout is something to 44 has been mightily of- worry about, with a mere 43 percent of fended, and will proba- developers actually casting a vote. Al- Ari Pollak 228 0.78 bly think twice about though this is partly due to the fact that spending time working many Debian developers are so by name 185 on the Debian project only, there is no escaping the fact that Jonathan aka Ted Walther in the future. A project there are far more active members than 0.24 that continually points the 421 that bothered to cast a valid vote.
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